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Review of All Better Now
All Better Now by Neal ShustermanHigh School Simon 528 pp.2/25 9781534432758 $21.99e-book ed. 9781534432772 $12.99In the near future, the Crown Royale virus is wreaking havoc on the world. One in every twenty-five people who contract it will die from it, but those who recover experience a blissful, euphoric state. This...
Review of Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace FlemingMiddle School, High School Schwartz/Random 368 pp.4/25 9780593480069 $19.99Library ed. 9780593480076 $22.99e-book ed. 9780593480083 $11.99On Saturday, November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple died at Jonestown in Guyana. Though the...
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Review of Extra Large
Extra Large by Tyler Page; illus. by the authorMiddle School First Second 208 pp.3/25 9781250851574 $22.99Paper ed. 9781250851567 $14.99e-book ed. 9781250422767 $9.99In Button Pusher (rev. 5/22), Tyler gained weight as a side effect of taking Ritalin for his ADHD. In this companion graphic memoir, Page explores the intersection of body...
Review of When the World Tips Over
When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson High School Dial 528 pp. 9/24 9780525429098 $21.99 e-book ed. 9780698195042 $10.99 Nelson (Printz Award winner for I’ll Give You the Sun, rev. 11/14) begins with definitions of a fantasia—one of which is “a literary work composed of a mixture of different...
Review of Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike
Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike by Amy Cherrix Intermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 336 pp. 9/24 9780063069541 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063069565 $9.99 Epidemiologists are scientists who study the causes, patterns, and control of diseases in groups of people. Positioning epidemiologists as forensic detectives, Cherrix examines...
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Review of One Last Chance to Live
One Last Chance to Live by Francisco X. StorkHigh School Scholastic 320 pp.9/24 9781339010236 $19.99e-book ed. 9781546109662 $19.99Nico Kardos is a Mexican American high school senior from the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx. He works at a fish market in the morning and sells drugs for the local gang...
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Review of A Flash of Color & Light: A Biography of Dale Chihuly
A Flash of Color & Light: A Biography of Dale Chihuly by Sharon Mentyka; illus. by Shelley CouvillionPrimary Little Bigfoot/Sasquatch 48 pp.10/24 9781632171900 $18.99Dale Chihuly (b. 1941) was drawn to light, color, and glass from an early age. As a young man, a formative trip to Europe and Israel sparked...
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Review of The Salt Thief: Gandhi’s Heroic March to Freedom
The Salt Thief: Gandhi’s Heroic March to Freedom by Neal Bascomb; illus. by Mithil ThakerMiddle School, High School Focus/Scholastic 272 pp.9/24 9781338701999 $19.99e-book ed. 9781338702002 $19.99In his latest work of narrative nonfiction, Bascomb (recently The Race of the Century, rev. 3/22) delivers a clear and absorbing account of Mohandas Gandhi’s...
Hell of a long shot?: Sequels, series, and the Caldecott Award
Today on Calling Caldecott, a conversation between Elisa Gall and Jonathan Hunt about sequels, series, and the Caldecott Award. (This is an entry in their "why-the-hell" Calling Caldecott series. Previous posts include discussions about the Caldecott and holiday books; photography; board books; the Newbery Award; "didactic intent"; and folklore.) ELISA...
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