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Review of Worser
Worser by Jennifer ZieglerMiddle School Ferguson/Holiday 256 pp. g3/22 978-0-8234-4956-9 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5283-5 $10.99When his (widowed) mother, a professor of rhetoric, has a stroke and can no longer speak, social misfit twelve-year-old William Wyatt Orser, nicknamed Worser, feels “utterly alone. Cold. Helpless.” Obsessed with words, the boy carries in his...
Lulu and Milagro’s Search for Clarity by Angela VelezHigh School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 400 pp. g2/22 978-0-06-307178-0 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-307180-3 $12.99Unlike her younger sister, Lulu, Milagro has never cared about college. So she’s not thrilled to learn that she’ll be joining Lulu on their Catholic school’s annual spring break field...
Ironhead, or, Once a Young Lady by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem; trans. from Dutch by Kristen GehrmanMiddle School, High School Em Querido/Levine Querido 368 pp. g2/22 978-1-61614-048-0 $18.99In this smoothly translated historical-fiction romp set in 1808, lively, propulsive storytelling whirls us through the countryside of what is now Belgium, France, and...
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Review of Cold
Cold by Mariko TamakiHigh School Roaring Brook 240 pp. g2/22 978-1-62672-273-6 $18.99Teens Georgia and Todd would seem to have little in common, especially given that Todd is, well, dead. But when Todd’s nude, frozen body is discovered in a local park, Georgia is intrigued by the mystery. She interrogates those...
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Review of A Comb of Wishes
A Comb of Wishes by Lisa StringfellowIntermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 272 pp. g2/22 978-0-06-304343-5 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-304345-9 $8.99After her mother dies in a tragic accident, twelve-year-old Kela Boxhill becomes a shell of her former self. She pushes away her father, her best friend, and her vibrant Caribbean community of...
The Ghost of Midnight Lake by Lucy StrangeIntermediate Chicken House/Scholastic 336 pp. g9/21 978-1-338-68643-2 $17.99This quickly paced gothic tale takes us to England’s Lake District, 1899. Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith’s elderly father has just died, and the new Earl of Gosswater, her sleazy cousin Clarence, summarily boots Aggie from her...
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Review of The Last Mapmaker
The Last Mapmaker by Christina SoontornvatIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 368 pp. g4/22 978-1-5362-0495-7 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5362-2466-5 $17.99Following Newbery honoree A Wish in the Dark (rev. 5/20), this is another middle-grade fantasy from acclaimed author Soontornvat. Sai comes from the humblest of humble beginnings but manages to fake it as assistant...
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Review of Squire
Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh; illus. by Sara AlfageehMiddle School, High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 336 pp. g3/22 978-0-06-294585-3 $21.99Paper ed. 978-0-06-294584-6 $14.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-294586-0 $11.99Set in an alternate-history version of the Middle East/North Africa region, this sweeping graphic novel begins as a thrilling quest for glory and becomes...
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Review of Anatomy: A Love Story
Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana SchwartzHigh School Wednesday/St. Martin’s 352 pp. g1/22 978-1-250-77415-6 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1- 250- 77416- 3 $10.99In 1817 Edinburgh (a city famous at the time for medical advancements), the fictional “Roman fever” is ripping through the population. This sickness has already taken Hazel Sinnett’s older brother,...
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