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1 month ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jessica Kim |Christina Li
An entertaining and reassuring story of discovery, healing, and reconnection. Twelve-year-old Korean American twins Phoebe and Dex Bae reluctantly team up on the ice. When Phoebe’s figure skating partner, Pete, has to sit out a major competition due to an injury, she’s crushed. It’s only two months until the pairs invitational that would have allowed Phoebe to move from the recreational league to the competitive division.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Marty Chan |Christina Li |Lois Lowry
A deftly told story that dramatizes how Danes appointed themselves bodyguards—not only for their king, who was in the habit... The author of the Anastasia books as well as more serious fiction (Rabble Starkey, 1987) offers her first historical fiction—a story about the escape of the Jews from Denmark in 1943. Five years younger than Lisa in Carol Matas' Lisa's War (1989), Annemarie Johansen has, at 10, known three years of Nazi occupation.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Natalie Babbitt |Christina Li
However the compelling fitness of theme and event and the apt but unexpected imagery (the opening sentences compare the... At a time when death has become an acceptable, even voguish subject in children's fiction, Natalie Babbitt comes through with a stylistic gem about living forever.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Alice Hoffman |J. Torres |David Namisato |Christina Li
The story of Anne Frank and her family before the diary that would become an iconic work of the 20th century. Hoffman imagines the Frank family in Amsterdam—their conversations, feelings, and interactions—during the terrifying time that led up to their hiding and Anne’s writing of her diary, which was published posthumously in 1947.
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May 28, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Heather Fawcett |Christina Li |Lois Lowry
A deftly told story that dramatizes how Danes appointed themselves bodyguards—not only for their king, who was in the habit... The author of the Anastasia books as well as more serious fiction (Rabble Starkey, 1987) offers her first historical fiction—a story about the escape of the Jews from Denmark in 1943. Five years younger than Lisa in Carol Matas' Lisa's War (1989), Annemarie Johansen has, at 10, known three years of Nazi occupation.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Gordon Korman |Christina Li |Lois Lowry
Glitzy glimpses of life on the make, lightened by a focus on alternatives rather than consequences. A con man’s son yearns for a different way of life. Having helped his single dad fleece wealthy marks since kindergarten, Trey is adept at spotting their rich offspring in each new school he attends and cultivating them until the time comes for a quick getaway.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
netgalley.com | Christina Li
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Feb 17, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Lois Lowry |Christina Li
A tale of intergenerational bonding that may resonate with adult readers but will leave youngsters cold. In the Newbery-winning author’s latest, a girl grapples with a beloved elder’s dementia. Eleven-year-old Sophia (who goes by Sophie) Henry Winslow’s best friend is Sophie Gershowitz, her 88-year-old neighbor. Sophie Gershowitz’s adult son is concerned with her cognitive decline and thinks it may be time for her to move to an assisted living facility.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Dan Gemeinhart |Christina Li |Lois Lowry
Fans of the first book will find much to appreciate in this heartfelt story of growth and change. Coyote hits the highway again in this follow-up to 2019’s The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise. Set one year later, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, this sequel finds Coyote Sunrise and her father, Rodeo, both cued white, having settled into a house in Oregon, with Rodeo receiving counseling and Coyote attending school for the first time in five years.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jorge Cham |Christina Li |Cynthia Rylant |Arthur Howard
From the Oliver's Great Big Universe series , Vol. 1 An irresistibly entertaining introduction to astrophysics. A stellar confluence of comic episodes and cosmic information. Robotics Ph.D., author, podcaster, and PBS Kids’ show creator Cham offers a straightforward and amusing guide to the universe through the eyes of a middle schooler. Copious cartoon vignettes and graphics ramp up both the instruction and entertainment.
