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Review of Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story

Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds High School    Dlouhy/Atheneum    256 pp. 10/24    9781665961271    $19.99 e-book ed.  9781665961295    $10.99 Seventeen-year-old Neon is in his girlfriend Aria’s bathroom, wracked with anxiety because, for the two of them, “tonight is for our first time.” Twenty-four seconds earlier, he was...

Review of On a Wing and a Tear

On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia Leitich Smith Middle School    Heartdrum/HarperCollins    240 pp. 9/24    9780062870001    $18.99 e-book ed.  9780062870025    $9.99 When Great-Grandfather Bat (an actual bat) calls upon (humans) Ray and Mel to help him travel to a rematch of the legendary Great Ball Game in the Southeast...

Review of When the World Tips Over

When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson High School    Dial    528 pp. 9/24    9780525429098    $21.99 e-book ed.  9780698195042    $10.99 Nelson (Printz Award winner for I’ll Give You the Sun, rev. 11/14) begins with definitions of a fantasia—one of which is “a literary work composed of a mixture of different...

Review of The Curse of Madame Petrova

The Curse of Madame Petrova by Marjolijn Hof; illus. by Annette Fienieg; trans. from Dutch by Bill Nagelkerke Middle School    Em Querido/Levine Querido    272 pp. 9/24    9781646144532    $18.99 Silke and her twin brother, Janis, are fated to cause each other’s demise, or so predicted Madame Petrova when she read the...

Review of Lola

Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti; illus. by Islenia Mil Intermediate    Knopf    256 pp. 9/24    9780593177006    $17.99 Library ed.  9780593177013    $20.99 e-book ed.  9780593177020    $10.99 Lola, ten, lives in Mexico City in a house built around the Tree. The Tree is full of life, and spirit-like beings called chaneques protect it....

Review of Still Sal

Still Sal by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the author Primary    Greenwillow    256 pp. 10/24    9780063389625    $18.99 e-book ed.  9780063389649    $9.99 Sal Miller is six. Her life is changing so much that she tells Papa, “I’m not Sal anymore,” after her two-year-old sister, Poppy, moves into her bedroom. Sal “was a...

Review of The Judgment of Yoyo Gold

The Judgment of Yoyo Gold by Isaac Blum High School    Philomel    304 pp. 10/24    9780593525852    $19.99 e-book ed.  9780593525876    $10.99 In this coming-of-age novel set in an insular Orthodox Jewish community (adjacent to the one in The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen, rev. 11/22), Yocheved “Yoyo” Gold is the...

Review of Beti and the Little Round House

Beti and the Little Round House by Atinuke; illus. by Emily Hughes Primary    Candlewick    128 pp. 10/24    9781536225181    $18.99 Fans of Atinuke’s beloved chapter-book series know that Anna Hibiscus “lives in Africa. Amazing Africa” and Too-Small Tola “lives in Lagos, unbelievable Lagos.” Now we meet protagonist Beti, who lives with...

Review of Boy 2.0

Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste Intermediate, Middle School    Algonquin    304 pp. 10/24    9781643753812    $16.99 e-book ed.  9781523529896    $9.99 Win “Coal” Keegan is moving to another foster home; the McKay family seems nice enough, and Coal is relieved that he’s remaining at the same school with his best friend, nicknamed Door....
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