Reviews Of The Week
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert Middle School, High School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 224 pp. g 10/21 978-0-06-305666-4 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-305668-8 $9.99 On May 30, 1921 — just over one hundred years ago — a young Black...
The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Sophie Blackall Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 256 pp. g 9/21 978-1-5362-1361-4 $19.99 As this rich and absorbing novel opens, Brother Edik finds a sick girl in the barn of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, curled up with the “demon goat”...
A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi by James Yang; illus. by the author Primary Viking 40 pp. g 6/21 978-0-593-20344-6 $17.99 “If you are a boy named Isamu,” begins this invented vignette of the childhood of artist Isamu Noguchi, “at the market with your mother, it can...
The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 208 pp. g 10/21 978-1-5362-1552-6 $16.99 When it becomes clear that unathletic Yevgeny is not going to follow in the footsteps of his figure-skating-whiz older brother Victor, their...
Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon High School Delacorte 304 pp. g 6/21 978-1-5247-1896-1 $19.99 Library ed. 978-1-5247-1897-8 $22.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-1898-5 $10.99 When her parents get a divorce due to her dad’s infidelity, Evie is thoroughly disillusioned with the notion of love. A chance encounter while disposing of her...
Bright Star by Yuyi Morales; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 9/21 978-0-8234-4328-4 $18.99 Spanish ed. 978-0-8234-4784-8 $18.99 Morales’s (Dreamers, rev. 9/18) latest sensitive and evocative picture book opens with a wide-eyed whitetail fawn curled up in a creosote bush, guilelessly peeking up at the reader....
Run: Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; illus. by L. Fury with Nate Powell Middle School, High School Good Trouble Productions/ComicArts/Abrams 160 pp. g 8/21 978-1-4197-3069-6 $24.99 e-book ed. 978-1-68335-382-9 $18.65 The story begun in the March graphic memoirs (rev. 1/14, 5/15, and 9/16) — events of the...
Fish and Sun [I Can Read!: Comics] by Sergio Ruzzier; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary HarperAlley/HarperCollins 48 pp. g 6/21 978-0-06-307664-8 $16.99 Paper ed. 978-0-06-307663-1 $4.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-307665-5 $4.99 Tiny Tales: Shell Quest [I Can Read!: Comics] by Steph Waldo; illus. by the author Primary HarperAlley/HarperCollins 32 pp. ...
I Is for Immigrants by Selina Alko; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Ottaviano/Holt 40 pp. g 6/21 978-1-250-23786-6 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-84540-5 $10.99 A is for ancestors, abuelita, and African dance; B is for bodega, braids, and bubble tea. In this alphabet book, Alko (One Golden Rule at School,...
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