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Sep 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | James Roland |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky
May be of interest to football fans now but is superficial and certain to date quickly. Profiles of six young quarterbacks with dazzling skills and promising futures. Roland’s roster includes one biracial, two white, and three Black elite young arrivals—Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Brock Purdy, Jalen Hurts, Lamar Jackson, and C.J. Stroud—who played for teams all over the United States.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Carla Mooney |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky
A thought-provoking comparison of the costs and benefits of electric vehicles. Against the obvious advantages of vehicles that don’t create toxic emissions and use little to no fossil fuels, Mooney weighs many of the hidden costs.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Stuart A. Kallen |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky
This concise volume offers a brief overview of the causes of climate change, the reasons to be worried, and the positive choices that make a difference. Pointing out that Americans are uncertain about which actions might actually help the effort to slow climate change, Kallen has selected six areas of focus: diet, travel, low-waste lifestyles, energy use, greening the world, and activism.
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May 7, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Paula Yoo |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky
An account of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, focusing particularly on the stories of Rodney King, Latasha Harlins, and Eddie Lee. Protests erupted in Los Angeles County in April 1992, following the shocking acquittal of four police officers accused of using excessive force in brutally beating King, an unarmed Black man, during a traffic arrest in March 1991.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Eric Rosswood |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky
An empathetic handbook that will support a broad range of readers. This illustrated guide with a strong emphasis on joy and self-love offers readers a “queer teen survival kit.”Through seven distinct sections—“Identity,” “Helpful Habits,” “Confidence,” “Relationships,” “School,” “Our Community,” and “Success & Future”—Rosswood and Anders present information on a wide variety of topics.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Michael Woods |Mary Woods |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky
Brief yet inspirational, this story will galvanize youth to use their voices for change. Teen environmental activist and founder of the nonprofit Hannah4Change, Testa shares her story and the science around plastic pollution in her fight to save our planet. Testa’s connection to and respect for nature compelled her to begin championing animal causes at the age of 10, and this desire to have an impact later propelled her to dedicate her life to fighting plastic pollution.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | John Florio |Ouisie Shapiro |Adam Eli |Hannah Testa
Gritty and inspiring, if light on specific details. A profile of the maverick undercover officer who exposed widespread corruption in the New York City Police Department. In this concise work, readers get an overview of the colorful lifestyle of Italian American Frank Serpico, who was played by Al Pacino in the 1973 movie Serpico.
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Nov 4, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Connie Goldsmith |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky |Michael Bronski
Will incite sympathy, not to say outrage, along with admiration for these often-underestimated birds. Highlights from the more than 5,000-year history of the “pigeon post.”Pigeons were the first birds to be domesticated (about 10,000 years ago) and have been used to carry messages since at least the days of ancient Egypt. Along with being uncanny navigators, they’ve been shown to be intelligent enough to distinguish between the music of Bach and Stravinsky.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
twincitiesgeek.com | Hannah Testa
Leanne Schwartz’s debut novel, A Prayer for Vengeance, looks like a straightforward tale of retribution on the surface: the story of a warrior hellbent on punishing those who did her wrong, with the Pygmalion twist that she was turned into a statue and has recently been awoken by an unassuming young man praying to what he believed was an inanimate object.
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Oct 7, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Sherri Smith |Adam Eli Werner |Hannah Testa |Ashley Lukashevsky
Brief yet inspirational, this story will galvanize youth to use their voices for change. Teen environmental activist and founder of the nonprofit Hannah4Change, Testa shares her story and the science around plastic pollution in her fight to save our planet. Testa’s connection to and respect for nature compelled her to begin championing animal causes at the age of 10, and this desire to have an impact later propelled her to dedicate her life to fighting plastic pollution.
