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Review of Isla to Island
Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos; illus. by the authorMiddle School Atheneum 192 pp. g3/22 978-1-5344-6924-2 $21.99Paper ed. 978-1-5344-6923-5 $12.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-6925-9 $9.99In this mostly wordless historical-fiction graphic novel, Marisol lives with her parents in Habana (according to captions using the Spanish spelling), Cuba. Marisol, who loves her island’s culture...
Review of Isla to Island
Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos; illus. by the authorMiddle School Atheneum 192 pp. g3/22 978-1-5344-6924-2 $21.99Paper ed. 978-1-5344-6923-5 $12.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-6925-9 $9.99In this mostly wordless historical-fiction graphic novel, Marisol lives with her parents in Habana (according to captions using the Spanish spelling), Cuba. Marisol, who loves her island’s culture...
Review of Viral: The Fight Against AIDS in America
Viral: The Fight Against AIDS in Americaby Ann BausumMiddle School, High School Viking 166 pp. g6/19 978-0-425-28720-0 $17.99“The first to die left behind little more than their names and brief stories of chaotic, terrifying deaths. Individual by individual, they went from being seemingly well to perplexingly ill in a matter...
Review of D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History
D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed Historyby Deborah HopkinsonIntermediate, Middle SchoolScholastic Focus/Scholastic 376 pp. g8/18 978-0-545-68248-0 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-545-68249-7 $16.99D-Day marked the beginning of the end for Hitler’s stranglehold on Europe. A massive, coordinated attack that was months in the planning, Operation Overlord saw Allied forces land on...
Review of The Music of What Happens
The Music of What Happensby Bill KonigsbergHigh School Levine/Scholastic 346 pp.1/19 978-1-338-21550-2 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-338-21552-6 $10.99In order to help his unstable mother make delinquent mortgage payments, Jordan tries his hand at the food truck business, using his late father’s old truck, Coq Au Vinny. Things don’t go too well until...
Review of Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump
Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trumpby Martha BrockenbroughMiddle School, High School Feiwel 416 pp.11/18 978-1-250-30803-0 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-250-30804-7 $9.99Brockenbrough opens her critical biography of Donald Trump with a sampling of events leading up to the surprising (to most) results of the 2016 presidential election. She then takes readers back to...
Review of The Wicked King
The Wicked King [Folk of the Air]by Holly BlackHigh School Little, Brown 325 pp. g1/19 978-0-316-31035-2 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-316-31033-8 $9.99A mortal raised in the realms of Faerie by the devious General Madoc, Jude Duarte has learned to play games of politics and intrigue quite well. By manipulating her...
Review of Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of Americaby Gail JarrowIntermediate, Middle School Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills 142 pp.8/18 978-1-62979-776-2 $18.95e-book ed. 978-1-68437-143-3 $9.99In 1938, on the night before Halloween, an American radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells’s...
Review of The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurgeby M. T. Anderson; illus. by Eugene YelchinMiddle School Candlewick 530 pp. g9/18 978-0-7636-9822-5 $24.99Historian and diplomat Brangwain Spurge has been sent from Elfland to the neighboring goblin kingdom to return a precious artifact. On the surface, it’s a gesture of goodwill to a...
