Gennifer Choldenko

Sep 17, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Katherine Applegate |Gennifer Choldenko |Wallace West |Peter Brown

Robot Roz undertakes an unusual ocean journey to save her adopted island home in this third series entry. When a poison tide flowing across the ocean threatens their island, Roz works with the resident creatures to ensure that they will have clean water, but the destruction of vegetation and crowding of habitats jeopardize everyone’s survival.

Sep 17, 2024 | sonderbooks.com | Gennifer Choldenko

The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman Review posted September 17, 2024. Greenwillow Books, September 2024. 345 pages. Review written August 13, 2024, from a library book. Starred Review 2024 Cybils Finalist, Elementary/Middle Grade Fiction 2024 Sonderbooks Stand-out: #6 More Children's Fiction Okay, disclaimer first. My timing with this book was most unfortunate. I read this one immediately after finishing And Then... Boom! by Lisa Fipps.

Apr 18, 2024 | citylights.com | Gennifer Choldenko

"The plot is enriched by winning characters, meaningful friendships, a taut atmosphere, and secrets multiplying as fast as the story's rats." –Booklist starred review "Not only will this novel hold a proud spot on the deadly disease shelf with Jim Murphy's An American Plague and Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever 1793, it's a vivid picture of 20th-century San Francisco and a stirring story of a lonely, funny girl trying to be her "best true self." –Shelf Awareness starred review

Jul 13, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Katherine Applegate |Gennifer Choldenko |Wallace West |Patricia Castelao

The three way chats, in which they are joined by other animals, about web spinning, themselves, other humans—are as often... A successful juvenile by the beloved New Yorker writer portrays a farm episode with an imaginative twist that makes a poignant, humorous story of a pig, a spider and a little girl. Young Fern Arable pleads for the life of runt piglet Wilbur and gets her father to sell him to a neighbor, Mr. Zuckerman.