Julie Hakim Azzam
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Review of Nour’s Secret Library
Nour’s Secret Library by Wafa’ Tarnowska; illus. by Vali MintziPrimary, Intermediate Barefoot 32 pp. g3/22 978-1-64686-291-7 $17.99Paper ed. 978-1-64686-292-4 $9.99Nour and her cousin Amir are busy making plans for a secret society (with code word and handshake, natch) when war erupts in their neighborhood. It’s the early days of the...
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Review of Perfectly Imperfect Mira
Perfectly Imperfect Mira by Faith Pray; illus. by the authorPreschool Little, Brown 40 pp. g4/22 978-0-316-54116-9 $17.99Mira has lots of first days attempting new activities, but fear of failure prevents many second days. Take gymnastics, for example, a sport full of terrible what-if? scenarios for an anxious mind: “What if...
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Review of The Monster in the Bathhouse
The Monster in the Bathhouse by Sina Merabian; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Simon 32 pp. g2/22 978-1-5344-9682-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-9683-5 $10.99Nowruz is a celebration of the end of winter and the start of a new year. For the three boys and their fathers in this story, a visit to...
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Review of Nour’s Secret Library
Nour’s Secret Library by Wafa’ Tarnowska; illus. by Vali MintziPrimary, Intermediate Barefoot 32 pp. g3/22 978-1-64686-291-7 $17.99Paper ed. 978-1-64686-292-4 $9.99Nour and her cousin Amir are busy making plans for a secret society (with code word and handshake, natch) when war erupts in their neighborhood. It’s the early days of the...
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Review of Perfectly Imperfect Mira
Perfectly Imperfect Mira by Faith Pray; illus. by the authorPreschool Little, Brown 40 pp. g4/22 978-0-316-54116-9 $17.99Mira has lots of first days attempting new activities, but fear of failure prevents many second days. Take gymnastics, for example, a sport full of terrible what-if? scenarios for an anxious mind: “What if...
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Review of The Monster in the Bathhouse
The Monster in the Bathhouse by Sina Merabian; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Simon 32 pp. g2/22 978-1-5344-9682-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-9683-5 $10.99Nowruz is a celebration of the end of winter and the start of a new year. For the three boys and their fathers in this story, a visit to...
Review of Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons
Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasonsby Laura Purdie Salas; illus. by Mercè LópezPrimary Millbrook 32 pp.4/19 978-1-5124-9809-7 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-5415-4383-6 $19.99Salas presents a volume of “riddle-ku” poems, a form that is a cross between riddles, haiku, and “mask poems” (poems narrated by “something nonhuman”). The book is divided...
Review of Poetree
Poetreeby Shauna LaVoy Reynolds; illus. by Shahrzad MaydaniPrimary Dial 32 pp. g3/19 978-0-399-53912-1 $17.99To celebrate the end of winter, young poetry lover Sylvia writes a poem about spring and ties it to a birch tree in the park. The next day her poem is gone; in its place is another...
Review of The Bridge Home
The Bridge Home by Padma VenkatramanIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 194 pp. g2/19 978-1-5247-3811-2 $16.99 In a drunken rage, the father of eleven-year-old narrator Viji breaks her mother’s arm. Viji decides, “If I wanted a better future, I needed to change the life we had. Now.” The next morning, she and her sister...
