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.

May 19, 2023 | schoollibraryjournal.com | Alexandra Quay

Gr 4-8–Summer camp is a classic setting in children’s literature, but few are as warm and affirming as the camp in Melleby and Sass’s novel. Told in alternating perspectives, the book follows two children during their first year at an LGBTQIA+ camp: eager but anxious Abigail (she/her), a recently out lesbian, is yearning for accepting friends, whereas aloof, nonbinary Kai (e/em) would much rather leave in favor of eir parkour training.