Reviews Of The Week
The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to Save Carnegie Hall by Megan Hoyt; illus. by Katie HickeyPrimary, Intermediate Quill Tree/HarperCollins 40 pp. g7/22 978-0-06-304527-9 $18.99This picture-book biography tells the story of virtuoso violinist Isaac Stern, with an emphasis on his commitment to preserving the...
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent TiradoHigh School Sourcebooks Fire 352 pp. g5/22 978-1-7282-4600-0 $18.99In this horror novel grounded in a real-world setting, sixteen-year-old Raquel’s life is upended when her friend disappears—part of a pattern of unexplained disappearances—and her mother is hospitalized due to a mysterious illness. Raquel is...
Berry Song by Michaela Goade; illus. by the authorPrimary Little, Brown 40 pp. g7/22 978-0-316-49417-5 $18.99In Goade’s (Caldecott Medalist for We Are Water Protectors, rev. 7/20) latest picture book, set “on an island at the edge of a wide, wild, sea,” a Tlingit grandmother teaches her granddaughter “how to live...
If You’re a Kid like Gavin by Gavin Grimm and Kyle Lukoff; illus. by J YangPrimary Tegen/HarperCollins 40 pp. g7/22 978-0-06-305756-2 $18.99This timely picture book by activist Grimm, with help from author Lukoff (When Aidan Became a Brother, rev. 7/19) and artist Yang, tells the true story of young...
Murder for the Modern Girl by Kendall KulperHigh School Holiday 464 pp. g5/22 978-0-8234-4972-9 $19.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5287-3 $11.99There’s an “angel killer” stalking the streets in this flapper-era dark fantasy set in late-1920s Chicago. Ruby Newhouse only strikes men with bad intentions, and since she happens to have telepathic abilities,...
See You Someday Soon by Pat Zietlow Miller; illus. by Suzy LeePreschool, Primary Roaring Brook 48 pp. g6/22 978-1-250-22110-0 $19.99“Someday soon, I’ll see you. Even though you are there. And I am here. So very far apart. I want to see you now, of course. Right this minute.” In a...
Hope Is an Arrow: The Story of Lebanese American Poet Kahlil Gibran by Cory McCarthy; illus. by Ekua HolmesPrimary Candlewick 40 pp. g6/22 978-1-5362-0032-4 $18.99In this picture-book biography, readers are introduced to artist and poet Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), whose work The Prophet is one of the most widely translated...
Fish and Wave [I Can Read!: Comics]by Sergio Ruzzier; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary HarperAlley/HarperCollins 48 pp. g5/22 978-0-06-307667-9 $16.99Paper ed. 978-0-06-307666-2 $4.99Fish (Fish and Sun, rev. 9/21) wakes up early to search for a new friend, and the first potential pal he finds is a wave. Wave starts...
Luli and the Language of Tea by Andrea Wang; illus. by Hyewon YumPreschool Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g5/22 978-0-8234-4614-8 $18.99While adults attend an ESL class, their children go to a playroom next door. The room is full but quiet; no one speaks the same language, and all the kids play separately....
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