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Nov 26, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | J. Torres |David Namisato |Minh Le
A fast-paced SF graphic novel by writer Damián and artist Fuentes about a group of students who find themselves suddenly and unexpectedly thrown into the past. A class field trip to the ruins of a castle of the Knights Templaris an exciting prospect for friends Arnold, Sara, Mei, and Driss, but Piero, the class bully, uses it as an opportunity to torment.
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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 7, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Elizabeth Laird |David Namisato
An atmospheric tale told in sparkling prose of a close-knit family caught up in a changing world. The latest from acclaimed author Laird follows a girl’s coming of age in postwar England. After firmly placing the story in the 1950s by describing 13-year-old Charity’s serious bout with polio, the author sets the stage for further change as the Brown family is shocked to inherit a grand home from a fellow member of their strict Christian sect, the Lucasites.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | David Namisato
In this stand-alone companion volume to Hiranandani’s Newbery Honor title, The Night Diary (2018), a boy in post-partition Bombay grapples with the bitter realities of surviving trauma. After leaving their beloved home in Mirpur Khas, which is now part of the newly created Pakistan, 12-year-old twins Amil and Nisha are living in Bombay with their doctor father, paternal grandmother, and beloved family cook.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jennifer Nielsen |David Namisato |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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Dec 16, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Debbie Fong |David Namisato
A poignant story that delicately balances youthful delight and naïveté with profound mourning. The tragic loss of a younger sibling sends a middle school student on a journey of redemption and healing. A year after the drowning of Pia Xing’s younger brother, Ben, and nine months after her family relocated to a new town so they could start over, the family is still fully in the throes of grief.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Anne Nesbet |David Namisato |Lois Lowry
A clever peek at early Hollywood exploring themes that still resonate today. The sidekick in Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen (2020) takes center stage in this silent film–era sequel. It’s 1915, and about a year has passed since 13-year-old white heiress Victorine Berryman vanished, assumed a new identity, and became a member of Darleen Darling’s family and their New Jersey photoplay production company.
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Aug 12, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Alan Gratz |J. Torres |David Namisato
Poignant, respectful, and historically accurate while pulsating with emotional turmoil, adventure, and suspense. Awards & Accolades Likes 17 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Of 2017 New York Times Bestseller Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner In the midst of political turmoil, how do you escape the only country that you’ve ever known and navigate a new life?
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Susie Yi |Jeff Kinney |David Namisato
From the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series , Vol. 14 Readers can still rely on this series to bring laughs. The Heffley family’s house undergoes a disastrous attempt at home improvement. When Great Aunt Reba dies, she leaves some money to the family. Greg’s mom calls a family meeting to determine what to do with their share, proposing home improvements and then overruling the family’s cartoonish wish lists and instead pushing for an addition to the kitchen.
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Jul 12, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Sharon G. Flake |Jeff Kinney |David Namisato
After Ma nearly drowns one fateful night, a North Carolina boy doesn’t go outside. Everything 11-year-old James Henry needs to do, including taking imaginary trips into the night skies with twin sister Hattie, he can do at home. He endures the stares and gossip of folks as they pass his house. Nobody but he knows what happened that night, but as long as he has the safety of home, as long as nobody touches him, and as long as he can avoid his own guilt, he’s fine.
