Reviews Of The Week
Lost by Bob Staake; illus. by the author Primary Schwartz/Random 48 pp. 10/24 9780593707029 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593707036 $21.99 e-book ed. 9780593707043 $10.99 Many people can relate to the worry that strikes when a pet goes missing. Staake (Bluebird, rev. 3/13) brings empathy, camaraderie, and humor to a familiar experience...
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Ellen Heck Primary, Intermediate Chronicle 56 pp. 10/24 9781452135144 $19.99 “Cold winter winds rattle your window and the blast of the foghorn weaves into your morning dreams, warning ships away from the rocky cliffs behind you.” In a second-person...
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin Middle School, High School Viking 400 pp. 10/24 9780593527542 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593527566 $10.99 It’s the summer of 1940 in this collaboration between Sepetys (whose historical fiction for older readers includes, recently, I Must Betray You, rev. 5/22) and Sheinkin (primarily...
They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom by Lesa Cline-Ransome; illus. by James E. Ransome Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 40 pp. 9/24 9780763681555 $18.99 This poetic picture book tells the inspiring tale of a young enslaved man, “a compilation of many of the real-life stories of the people who resisted, fought,...
Doña Fela’s Dream by Monica Brown; illus. by Rose Ibarra Primary Little, Brown 48 pp. 9/24 9780316178358 $18.99 Spanish ed. 9780316581660 $11.99 A richly illustrated picture-book biography of Puerto Rico’s first female mayor, Felisa Rincón de Gautier (1897–1994), with a lively text. As a tropical storm batters San Juan at...
Pearl by Sherri L. Smith; illus. by Christine Norrie Intermediate, Middle School Graphix/Scholastic 144 pp. 8/24 9781338029437 $24.99 Paper ed. 9781338029420 $12.99 e-book ed. 9781338029444 $12.99 In this graphic novel, a Japanese American girl visiting family outside Hiroshima is trapped there after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. Amy’s sōsobo (great-grandmother), whose...
The Gale by Mo Yan; illus. by Zhu Chengliang; adapted by Xiaoxiao Guan; trans. from Chinese by Ying-Hwa Hu Primary, Intermediate Simon 40 pp. 8/24 9781665930628 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781665930635 $10.99 In this moving, bittersweet picture-book debut by a Nobel Prize–winning Chinese author, a child learns an important lesson about...
The Next Scientist: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of the World’s Great Scientists by Kate Messner; illus. by Julia Kuo Primary, Intermediate Chronicle 64 pp. 8/24 9781452176963 $19.99 This attractive, informative, and ambitious collective biography begins with a challenge: “Quick! Name the world’s greatest scientist.” Messner (The Next President,...
Too Small Tola Makes It Count by Atinuke; illus. by Onyinye Iwu Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 96 pp. 9/24 9781536238150 $16.99 e-book ed. 9781536240030 $16.99 Atinuke returns for a fourth time (Too Small Tola, rev. 3/21, and sequels) to her diminutive, high-spirited, mathematically gifted protagonist’s “run-down block of apartments in the...
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