Book Reviews
Caprice by Coe Booth Middle School Scholastic 240 pp. g 5/22 978-0-545-93334-6 $17.99 Big changes are happening in Caprice’s life. After an exciting, eventful summer spent at a wealthy private boarding school’s leadership program, Caprice is offered a full scholarship to attend the following fall as...
Violet & Jobie in the Wild by Lynne Rae Perkins; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Greenwillow 240 pp. g 9/22 978-0-06-249969-1 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-249971-4 $9.99 Mouse siblings Violet and Jobie live a cozy life in a human house where they are warm and comfortable,...
Windswept by Margi Preus; illus. by Armando Veve Intermediate, Middle School Amulet/Abrams 304 pp. g 9/22 978-1-4197-5824-9 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-6470-0504-7 $15.54 The time is the future. The “Powers-That-Be” are kidnapping children—using a meteorological weapon of windstorms that sweep them up, to then be sold to mountain trolls for profit....
Too Small Tola and the Three Fine Girls by Atinuke; illus. by Onyinye Iwu Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 96 pp. g 9/22 978-1-5362-2517-4 $15.99 Tola, in spite of her young age and diminutive stature, accomplishes big things in this sequel to Too Small Tola (rev. 3/21). In...
Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack Middle School Versify/HarperCollins 320 pp. g 9/22 978-0-358-57203-9 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-57188-9 $9.99 In the Jewish empire of Khazaria, twelve-year-old Ziva is the only one willing to go near her twin brother, Pesah, who has leprosy (with symptoms described in vivid detail, as...
Oh, Sal by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 122 pp. g 9/22 978-0-06-324492-4 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-324495-5 $10.99 This third, stand-alone installment of the Miller family saga (The Year of Billy Miller, rev. 9/13, and sequel) is told from four-year-old Sal’s point of view. It’s New Year’s...
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander Middle School Little, Brown 397 pp. g 9/22 978-0-316-44186-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-44206-0 $9.99 Alexander’s (The Crossover, rev. 5/14; The Undefeated, rev. 3/19) latest verse novel, the first in a projected trilogy, is historical fiction set in 1860, in an Asante Kingdom...
Merci Suárez Plays It Cool by Meg Medina Middle School Candlewick 346 pp. g 9/22 978-1-5362-1946-3 $18.99 The final installment of the trilogy (beginning with Merci Suárez Changes Gears, rev. 9/18) opens at the start of eighth grade, with Merci disappointed not to be assigned any classes with her close...
Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King Intermediate, Middle School Scholastic 263 pp. g 9/22 978-1-338-68052-2 $17.99 Sixth grader Mac Delaney isn’t sure what to expect after being assigned to Ms. Sett’s class. She’s famous—“as famous as a person can get in our town”—for writing letters to the...
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