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Nov 27, 2024 | 
bookriot.com | Jonathan Mingle |Hena Khan |Erica Ezeifedi
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Our besties over at the NYPL have released their picks for the best books of the year. Right off the bat, one huge thing we love about their roundup compared to quite a few other best-of lists is how much space they hold for children’s and YA books.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Suma Subramaniam |Archana Sreenivasan |Lulu Delacre |Hena Khan
A welcome, well-researched reflection of cultural pride in the early-reader landscape. The fourth installment in Delacre’s early-reader series centers on the rich musical traditions of Puerto Rico, once again featuring sibling tree frogs Rafi and Rosi Coquí. Readers learn along with Rafi and Rosi as they explore bomba, plena, and salsa in three chapters.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
sonderbooks.com | Hena Khan
We Are Big Time by Hena Khan illustrated by Safiya Zerrougui Review posted October 26, 2024. Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. 233 pages. Review written October 9, 2024, from a library book. This graphic novel opens as Aliyah and her family are moving from Tampa to Milwaukee, to be near her grandparents. Aliyah's not happy about it. She misses the beaches, her school, her friends, her neighborhood, the sunshine, and her basketball team.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | Meagan Saliashvili |Hena Khan
(RNS) — In 2017, our nation reeled from what came to be known as the “Muslim ban.” An executive order, signed by then-President Trump, barred or limited the entry of individuals from six Muslim-majority nations into the U.S.This included grandmothers from Iran, nurses from Libya and refugees from Syria. Protests erupted over the dangers of such a discriminatory policy, along with its ineffectiveness at protecting our borders.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
calgaryherald.com | Deborah Kerbel |Hena Khan |Kelly Yang |Joan Galat
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
booklistonline.com | Hena Khan
Illus. by Safiya Zerrougui.
Aug. 2024. 240p. Knopf, $21.99 (9780593430484); Knopf, paper, $13.99 (9780593430477). Grades 4-8. 741.5.
REVIEW.
First published July 2024 ().
When Aliya and her family move from Florida to Wisconsin, she finds comfort in the basketball program at her new school, Peace Academy. But in order for her team to win, she’ll have to rise to the challenge and prove that she has what it takes to lead as co-captain, even if she still has a lot to learn.
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May 16, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan |Jade Adia
Ravynn K. Stringfield. Joy Revolution, $12.99 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-57154-5In a devourable debut, Stringfield cooks up a decadent romance between an ambitious Black American drama student and the pragmatic son of a Parisian chocolatier.
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May 8, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jennifer Barnes |Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan
Sequestered contestants vie for millions in this fiendishly clever thriller, the first in a spinoff series from Barnes’s Inheritance Games saga. After a sprawling inaugural event, the second annual Grandest Game—a “mind-twisting” competition run by Tobias Hawthorne’s four grandsons and Avery Grambs, the teen who inherited the eccentric billionaire’s fortune—promises to be a more intimate affair.
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May 8, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan |Jade Adia
Catherine Bailey, illus. by Cori Doerrfeld. Union Square, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4549-4854-4Bailey and Doerrfeld skillfully twine story lines in this loving after-hours tribute to a stalwart school building. Following a long day, the school is ready for some much-needed rest (“All the cubbies yawn,/ lined up, clean and neat.// Worksheets settle in./ Erasers are just beat”), and a pale-skinned night guard’s arrival signals the structure’s bedtime.
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May 8, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Drew Beckmeyer |Steven Weinberg |Hena Khan
Drew Beckmeyer. Atheneum, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6659-4042-9A classroom’s first week launches a dynamic change in this inventive picture book. Monday reveals a clique of sports buffs (“They call themselves the SPORT KINGS, but nobody else does”), an artist worried about showing their work, an inventor frustrated with a malfunctioning satellite, a teacher buzzing on eight cups of pre-lunch coffee, and Pat, the class’s lonely bearded dragon.
