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Review of Those Kids from Fawn Creek
Those Kids from Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada KellyMiddle School Greenwillow 336 pp. g3/22 978-0-06-297035-0 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-297037-4 $10.99Fawn Creek, Louisiana, is such a small town that there are only twelve students in seventh grade. Even with such a limited pool, however, the kids manage to create discrete cohorts. The...
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Review of The Ogress and the Orphans
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly BarnhillIntermediate, Middle School Algonquin 400 pp. g3/22 978-1-64375-074-3 $19.95e-book ed. 978-1-64375-287-7 $15.95Stone-in-the-Glen used to be a joyful, cooperative place, but a disastrous library fire ushers in an era of divisiveness and suspicion. In parallel story lines, we learn about the dire situation of...
Review of Those Kids from Fawn Creek
Those Kids from Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada KellyMiddle School Greenwillow 336 pp. g3/22 978-0-06-297035-0 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-297037-4 $10.99Fawn Creek, Louisiana, is such a small town that there are only twelve students in seventh grade. Even with such a limited pool, however, the kids manage to create discrete cohorts. The...
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Review of The Ogress and the Orphans
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly BarnhillIntermediate, Middle School Algonquin 400 pp. g3/22 978-1-64375-074-3 $19.95e-book ed. 978-1-64375-287-7 $15.95Stone-in-the-Glen used to be a joyful, cooperative place, but a disastrous library fire ushers in an era of divisiveness and suspicion. In parallel story lines, we learn about the dire situation of...
Review of The Runaways
The Runawaysby Ulf Stark; illus. by Kitty Crowther; trans. from the Swedish by Julia MarshallPrimary, Intermediate Gecko 134 pp.4/19 978-1-77652-33-5 $17.99Paper ed. 978-1-776572-34-2 $11.88The portrait of old age and infirmity in this Swedish import is considerably more unvarnished than we’re used to in books for children. Grandpa is no lovable...
Review of I Am Hermes!: Mischief-Making Messenger of the Gods
I Am Hermes!: Mischief-Making Messenger of the Godsby Mordicai Gerstein; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Holiday 72 pp. g4/19 978-0-8234-3942-3 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4203-4 $11.99Following I Am Pan! (rev. 5/16), here comes Pan’s father, Hermes, the messenger god, eager to tell his own story. This Hermes is handsome, insouciant, impulsive, and...
Review of The Little Barbarian
The Little Barbarianby Renato Moriconi; illus. by the authorPreschool Eerdmans 48 pp.8/18 978-0-8028-5509-1 $17.00The little barbarian strides in, page left. Armed with sword and shield, he mounts his handsome black steed and proceeds through a malevolent world. Spread after spread, he gallops over and under hazards and monsters — a...
Review of Saving Winslow
Saving Winslowby Sharon CreechIntermediate Cotler/HarperCollins 165 pp.9/18 978-0-06-257070-3 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-06-257072-7 $17.89e-book ed. 978-0-06-257073-4 $9.99Creech interweaves the stories of three fragile babies. Two strands are backstories, and one is front, center, present, and loud. Louie had been a premature baby. Now he’s eleven, but the family story of his infancy...
Review of The Book of Boy
The Book of Boyby Catherine Gilbert Murdock; illus. by Ian SchoenherrIntermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 278 pp.2/18 978-0-06-268620-6 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-268622-0 $7.99Secundus is a pilgrim. A child, known simply as Boy, is a goatherd. Together they travel, master and servant, from France to Rome in the Holy Year of 1350. Each...
