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Review of Oasis

Oasis by Guojing; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School    Godwin/Holt    160 pp.2/25    9781250818379    $21.99Paper ed.  9781250818386    $14.99e-book ed.  9781250415790    $9.99As this graphic novel opens, JieJie and her younger brother, Didi, press their way through a windswept landscape toward an isolated telephone booth in the desert. It’s their way of reaching...

Review of All the Blues in the Sky

All the Blues in the Sky by Renée WatsonMiddle School    Bloomsbury    208 pp.2/25    9781547605897    $17.99e-book ed.  9781547605903    $12.59“I didn’t know / best friends could die.” From the very first line, Watson takes a deep dive into the intricacies of grief and healing. On her thirteenth birthday, Sage is looking forward...

Review of Everything Is Poison

Everything Is Poison by Joy McCulloughHigh School    Dutton    304 pp.1/25    9780593855874    $19.99e-book ed.  9780593855898    $10.99In 1650s Rome, Carmela’s mother, Giulia Tofana, runs an apothecary. At sixteen, Carmela is finally allowed to begin training to become an apothecary herself. She learns what goes into healing remedies—familiar herbs such as lavender, rosemary,...

Review of The Lost Ones

The Lost Ones [Moonwind Mysteries]by Johan Rundberg; trans. from Swedish by Eva ApelqvistMiddle School    Amazon Crossing Kids    222 pp.1/25    9781662525940    $17.99Paper ed.  9781662525957    $9.99Rundberg’s pair of 1880s detectives—twelve-year-old orphan Mika from Stockholm’s Public Children’s Home and police detective Valdemar Hoff—investigate the disappearance of a wealthy family’s teenage daughter, Beatrice. “Children...

Review of Song of a Blackbird

Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School    First Second    256 pp.1/25    9781250869814    $25.99Paper ed.  9781250869821    $17.99e-book ed.  9781250412119    $11.99This deeply personal and poetic graphic novel illustrates the heroic actions of everyday Dutch people as they resisted the Nazi regime, as well as...

Review of Thunder City

Thunder City [Mortal Engines]by Philip ReeveMiddle School, High School    Scholastic    336 pp.11/24    9781546138235    $19.99e-book ed.  9781546138242    $19.99This prequel to Reeve’s acclaimed postapocalyptic, steampunk Mortal Engines series opens some two hundred years earlier, during the peaceful Golden Age of Traction, as the city of Thorbury is violently boarded and captured by...

Review of The Other Side of Tomorrow

The Other Side of Tomorrow by Tina Cho; illus. by Deb JJ LeeIntermediate, Middle School    HarperAlley/HarperCollins    224 pp.11/24    9780063011083    $24.99Paper ed.  9780063011076    $15.99e-book ed.  9780063011090    $10.99In this intense and moving comic, we follow two North Korean refugees—Yunho, a shy, thoughtful boy; and Myunghee, a music-loving girl—on a harrowing year-long trek...

Review of The Art Thieves

The Art Thieves by Andrea L. Rogers High School    Levine/Levine Querido    400 pp. 10/24    9781646143788    $19.99 This compelling Cherokee-centered speculative novel by Cherokee writer Rogers (Man Made Monsters, rev. 11/22) is set in the near future: the 2050s. Stevie’s world at first looks not much different from ours, though events...

Review of The Shape of Lost Things

The Shape of Lost Things by Sarah Everett Middle School    Harper/HarperCollins    272 pp. 10/24    9780063256613    $18.99 e-book ed.  9780063256620    $9.99 When Skye was six years old, her parents, both physicists, divorced. She and her brother, Finn, spent alternate weekends with their dad, but he became increasingly obsessed with physics and...
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