Alexandra Quay

Oct 11, 2024 | slj.com | Alexandra Quay |Manuela Bernardi |Caroline Kusin Pritchard

. Mar. 2024. 224p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9781419767319. COPY ISBN Gr 5 Up–British codebreaker Alan Turing has deservedly received much posthumous praise for his groundbreaking work during World War II; this book focuses on all-but-forgotten history-maker Elizebeth Smith Friedman, his female, American counterpart doing the same work, yet without the technology and a fraction of the staff.

Jul 12, 2024 | slj.com | Alexandra Quay |Chelsea Clinton |Carole Weatherford |Mary Woods

. May 2024. 112p. Tr $16.99. ISBN 9780593563618. COPY ISBN Gr 2-4–While not quite the memoir of a wanton troublemaker, this is the tale of a real-life lovable scamp along the lines of Sara Pennypacker’s Clementine. With the help of Johnston, Wang gives her audience a sense of her family’s life in Inner Mongolia in the early 1980s, growing potatoes, awaiting the arrival of the local popcorn vendor, and celebrating the New Year.

Jan 1, 2024 | slj.com | Alexandra Quay

PreS-Gr 3–With therapy animals making a positive impact in educational spaces, especially when it comes to libraries and emerging readers, it is only natural that a book would come along that reflects the joy of reading to a pet. Clarisse, a stray cat who loves pictures in books, discovers a place that is simply overflowing with them: her local public library.