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2 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Betty Carter |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano
How to Tell a True Story by Tricia SpringstubbMiddle School Ferguson/Holiday 304 pp. 4/25 9780823458486 $17.99e-book ed. 9780823462209 $10.99From the opening chapter, Springstubb (Looking for True, rev. 11/22) creates a sense of unease by deftly foreshadowing an impending disaster. And so it happens: the Prices’ home burns to the ground.
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3 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Betty Carter |Lara K. Aase |Danielle Ford |Monique Harris
A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools by Debbie LevyMiddle School, High School Bloomsbury 256 pp. 1/25 9781547612215 $19.99e-book ed. 9781547612222 $13.99Levy takes readers back one hundred years to the sleepy town of Dayton, Tennessee, and the historic Scopes trial. At first glance, the time period—before television, the internet, and other modern sources of infotainment—seems far removed from our own.
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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Lara K. Aase |Danielle Ford |Monique Harris |Betty Carter
Coming Home / Tutuqaykingaqw Nima: A Hopi Resistance Story / Hopisino Pahan Tutqayiwuy Ep Yorhomti by Mavasta Honyouti; illus. by the author; trans. into Hopi by Marilyn ParraPrimary, Intermediate Levine/Levine Querido 48 pp. 11/24 9781646144570 $18.99Honyouti (Hopi, Iswungwa/Coyote clan) is an award-winning carver.
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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Danielle Ford |Monique Harris |Betty Carter |Pauletta Brown Bracy
Unlocking the Universe: The Cosmic Discoveries of the Webb Space Telescope by Suzanne SladePrimary, Intermediate Charlesbridge 48 pp. 10/24 9781623544591 $17.99e-book ed. 9781632894083 $9.99The James Webb Space Telescope is the latest “great observatory” collecting data on distant galaxies and stars from a position orbiting Earth. Slade skillfully explains NASA’s decades-long and at times precarious process of designing, building, launching, and operating the telescope.
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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Monique Harris |Betty Carter |Pauletta Brown Bracy |Sylvia Vardell
What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice by Jay Leslie; illus. by Loveis WisePrimary Hillman Grad/Zando 48 pp. 10/24 9781638930693 $19.99“Our stories can change the world.” Carl Hansberry’s words and courageous example were an inspiration to his daughter Lorraine (1930–1965). From a young age, Lorraine knew she wanted to share the stories that seemed to swirl around her in her Chicago neighborhood of Bronzeville.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Betty Carter |Pauletta Brown Bracy |Sylvia Vardell |Monique Harris
Bounce!: A Scientific History of Rubber by Sarah Albee; illus. by Eileen Ryan EwenPrimary Charlesbridge 48 pp. 10/24 978623543792 $18.99e-book ed. 9781632893574 $9.99Inviting readers into this spirited book, a bouncing red-rubber ball generates a path leading from the initial endpapers to the first words of text. Here readers discover properties of rubber: that it can bounce, stretch, roll, and be molded.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Jonathan Hunt |Monique Harris |Miriam Steinberg-Egeth |Betty Carter
Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike by Amy CherrixIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 336 pp. 9/24 9780063069541 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063069565 $9.99Epidemiologists are scientists who study the causes, patterns, and control of diseases in groups of people. Positioning epidemiologists as forensic detectives, Cherrix examines six case studies that convey the scope and importance of their work.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Betty Carter |Julie Hakim Azzam |Jessica MacDonald |Grace Mckinney Beermann
Seven: A Most Remarkable Pigeon by Sandra Nickel; illus. by Aimée SicuroPrimary Candlewick 40 pp. 4/25 9781536235197 $17.99Typically, two nestlings are born when pigeons mate. But not this time. There’s only one egg in the clutch, producing a single squab.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Deirdre Baker |Patrick Gall |Betty Carter |Kristine Techavanich
Under the Same Stars by Libba BrayHigh School Farrar 480 pp. 2/25 9780374388942 $24.99e-book ed. 9780374388959 $12.99In this ambitious work, Bray alternates three seemingly disparate stories, briefly braiding them into one near the novel’s end. In 1940s Germany, Sophie and Hanna are devotees of the Bridegroom’s Oak, a hollow tree famed as a post box for exchanging love letters.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Martha V. Parravano |Patrick Gall |Betty Carter |Kristine Techavanich
Thunder City [Mortal Engines]by Philip ReeveMiddle School, High School Scholastic 336 pp. 11/24 9781546138235 $19.99e-book ed. 9781546138242 $19.99This prequel to Reeve’s acclaimed postapocalyptic, steampunk Mortal Engines series opens some two hundred years earlier, during the peaceful Golden Age of Traction, as the city of Thorbury is violently boarded and captured by villain Gabriel Strega.
