Reviews Of The Week
Healer and Witch by Nancy WerlinMiddle School Candlewick 304 pp. g3/22 978-1-5362-1956-2 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-5362-2457-3 $19.99Werlin’s new novel is cause for celebration—for its sleek, sharp prose; intelligent ideas; and precise characterization, to name but a few of its attributes. Set in 1531 France, this is the tale of Sylvie, an...
Endlessly Ever After: Pick Your Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings! by Laurel Snyder; illus. by Dan SantatPrimary, Intermediate Chronicle 88 pp. g4/22 978-1-4521-4482-5 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-7972-0121-4 $11.99Though oversize, this eighty-eight-page picture book is not for story hour; it’s perhaps best suited for just one or two listeners. And get...
Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II by Lia Levi; illus. by Jess Mason; trans. from Italian by Sylvia NotiniPrimary, Intermediate Harper/HarperCollins 144 pp. g3/22 978-0-06-306508-6 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-306510-9 $9.99In a direct, first-person account (adapted from her adult book Una bambina e basta), Levi relates what happened...
Freewater by Amina Luqman-DawsonIntermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 416 pp. g2/22 978-0-316-05661-8 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-316-05674-8 $9.99Many accounts of the Underground Railroad mention that enslaved Blacks would stick close to swamps as they made their way North, as the topography proved problematic for slave catchers. A lesser-known fact is that from...
Rodney Was a Tortoise by Nan Forler; illus. by Yong Ling KangPrimary Tundra 40 pp. g2/22 978-0-73526-662-9 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-73526-663-6 $10.99Bernadette loves her pet tortoise, Rodney. “Day after day, / year after year, / Rodney was there, / loyal and true.” In Rodney, Bernadette sees a willing playmate, always up...
The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found by Dina Nayeri; photos by Anna Bosch MiralpeixIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 64 pp. g5/22 978-1-5362-1362-1 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-5362-1854-1 $18.99“When home is lost and a new one not yet found, children are sent to the Waiting Place.”...
The Prisoner of Shiverstone by Linette Moore; illus. by the authorIntermediate Amulet/Abrams 160 pp. g4/22 978-1-41974-391-7 $24.99Paper ed. 978-1-41974-392-4 $14.99e-book ed. 978-1-68335-896-1 $13.49This debut graphic novel introduces readers to Helga Sharp, a unique and entertaining iteration of the plucky heroine. Tired of boarding school, Helga sets off to rescue the...
Every Dog in the Neighborhood by Philip C. Stead; illus. by Matthew CordellPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g6/22 978-0-8234-4427-4 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5298-9 $11.99Louis tells his grandma that he wants a dog. When she replies that there are already enough dogs in the neighborhood, Louis goes door to door to get a...
I Begin with Spring: The Life and Seasons of Henry David Thoreau by Julie Dunlap; illus. by Megan Elizabeth Baratta Intermediate, Middle School Tilbury 96 pp. g 3/22 978-0-88448-908-5 $18.95 Dunlap begins her illustrated biography with a question posed by Thoreau in a school report, his earliest known writing: “Why...
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