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  • 3 weeks ago | hbook.com | Eboni Njoku |Patrick Gall |Martha V. Parravano |Michelle Lee

    All the Blues in the Sky by Renée WatsonMiddle School    Bloomsbury    208 pp. 2/25    9781547605897    $17.99e-book ed. 9781547605903    $12.59“I didn’t know / best friends could die.” From the very first line, Watson takes a deep dive into the intricacies of grief and healing. On her thirteenth birthday, Sage is looking forward to spending the day with her best friend; instead, she receives news that her friend has been killed by a drunk driver.

  • 2 months ago | hbook.com | Eboni Njoku |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano

    I Am the Swarm by Hayley ChewinsHigh School    Viking    336 pp. 3/25    9780593623862    $19.99e-book ed. 9780593623879    $10.99In this Cape Town–set verse novel, each woman in the Strand family gains magical abilities when she turns fifteen. As Nell Strand approaches her fifteenth birthday, she is painfully aware of the potential dangers that can accompany this “gift.” Her older sister, Mora, carries songs underneath her skin—and has been hospitalized for trying to cut the music out.

  • Nov 12, 2024 | hbook.com | Eboni Njoku |Lindsay Bayer |Jennifer Hubert Swan

    Mama’s Chicken and Dumplings by Dionna L. MannIntermediate    Ferguson/Holiday    208 pp. 8/24    9780823455553    $17.99e-book ed. 9780823459261    $10.99Mann sets this amiable story in 1930s Vinegar Hill, “a thriving African American business and residential community” outside Charlottesville, Virginia. Allie Lewis wants the best for her mama and thinks she needs a husband to help with financial worries and repairs.

  • Oct 15, 2024 | hbook.com | Eboni Njoku |Jessica MacDonald |Martha V. Parravano |Jerry Dear

    Boy 2.0by Tracey BaptisteIntermediate, Middle School    Algonquin    304 pp. 10/24    9781643753812    $16.99e-book ed. 9781523529896    $9.99Win “Coal” Keegan is moving to another foster home; the McKay family seems nice enough, and Coal is relieved that he’s remaining at the same school with his best friend, nicknamed Door. After a case of police brutality that leaves a woman dead, Coal processes his emotions in his usual way: making chalk art throughout the neighborhood.

  • Apr 17, 2024 | hbook.com | Eboni Njoku |Amanda Toledo |Martha V. Parravano |Michelle Lee

    You’re Breaking My Heart by Olugbemisola Rhuday-PerkovichMiddle School, High School    Levine/Levine Querido    304 pp. 1/24    9781646141814    $19.99Fourteen-year-old Harriet is convinced she’s responsible for her older brother Tunde’s tragic death and wishes more than anything that she could take back the cruel words she spoke to him that fateful morning.

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