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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Annisha Jeffries |Grace Mckinney Beermann |Jennifer M. Brabander |Marva Hinton
The Doll Test: Choosing Equality by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by David Elmo CooperPrimary Carolrhoda 32 pp.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Grace Mckinney Beermann |Jennifer M. Brabander |Marva Hinton |Joan Yolleck
Love Is Hard Work: The Art and Heart of Corita Kent by Dan Paley; illus. by Victoria Tentler-KrylovPrimary, Intermediate Candlewick 40 pp. 11/24 9781536220322 $18.99It only takes a “little heart” to make a big impact, and so tells the story of artist and religious sister Corita Kent (1918–1986). As a child, Frances Elizabeth Kent wanted to push away from the Old Masters taught in her art class and move toward something new in her creative expression.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Jennifer M. Brabander |Marva Hinton |Joan Yolleck |Kristine Techavanich
Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery by Christine Mari; illus. by the authorHigh School LB Ink/Little, Brown 304 pp. 10/24 9780316416658 $24.99Paper ed. 9780316416726 $17.99e-book ed. 9780316416825 $9.99A Japanese American author-illustrator describes her inner journey to find herself while taking an actual journey to Japan.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz |Dean Schneider |Jennifer M. Brabander |Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
The Forbidden Book by Sacha LambMiddle School, High School Levine/Levine Querido 256 pp. 10/24 9781646144563 $19.99ebook ed. 9781646144822 $13.99“On a full moon night, after a day of fasting, the young bride Sorel Kalmans leapt from a window and left her life behind.” Seventeen-year-old Sorel is betrothed to the rebbe’s son, a rather milquetoast character, but something compels her to flee.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Dean Schneider |Jennifer M. Brabander |Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres |Julie Hakim Azzam
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve SheinkinMiddle School, High School Viking 400 pp. 10/24 9780593527542 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593527566 $10.99It’s the summer of 1940 in this collaboration between Sepetys (whose historical fiction for older readers includes, recently, I Must Betray You, rev. 5/22) and Sheinkin (primarily nonfiction, recently Impossible Escape, rev. 9/23).
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Jessica Agudelo |Eric Carpenter |Marva Hinton |Jennifer M. Brabander
Doña Fela’s Dream by Monica Brown; illus. by Rose IbarraPrimary Little, Brown 48 pp. 9/24 9780316178358 $18.99Spanish ed. 9780316581660 $11.99A richly illustrated picture-book biography of Puerto Rico’s first female mayor, Felisa Rincón de Gautier (1897–1994), with a lively text. As a tropical storm batters San Juan at the start of the book, the fearful residents seek refuge in the home of their trusted local hero, lovingly called Doña Fela.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Jennifer M. Brabander |Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres |Julie Hakim Azzam |Jennifer Hubert Swan
Pearl by Sherri L. Smith; illus. by Christine NorrieIntermediate, Middle School Graphix/Scholastic 144 pp. 8/24 9781338029437 $24.99Paper ed. 9781338029420 $12.99e-book ed. 9781338029444 $12.99In this graphic novel, a Japanese American girl visiting family outside Hiroshima is trapped there after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. Amy’s sōsobo (great-grandmother), whose underwater pearl-diving feats are beloved family lore, urges the girl to learn survival, just as she had to.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Megan Lambert |Jennifer M. Brabander |Danielle Ford |Julie Hakim Azzam
Meena’s Saturdayby Kusum Mepani; illus. by Yasmeen IsmailPrimary Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. 10/24 9780593110317 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593110324 $10.99This captivating ode to weekly gatherings of friends and extended family brims with affection for foods, activities, and traditions shared by a loving, large group crowded together in the narrator’s home. Mepani revels in specific references to Gujarati Indian culture within an immigrant experience in an Anglophone country.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Jennifer M. Brabander |Martha V. Parravano |Julie Danielson |Julie Roach
Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo Maclear; illus. by Gracey ZhangPreschool, Primary Random House Studio/Random 40 pp. 8/24 9780593706084 $18.99Library ed. 9780593706091 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593706107 $10.99The creators of The Big Bath House (rev. 11/21) take readers back to Japan, this time for a wild bicycle ride through mid-twentieth-century Tokyo.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Jennifer M. Brabander |Joan Yolleck |Lindsay Bayer
Emma Full of Wonders by Elisha Cooper; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Roaring Brook 40 pp. 4/24 9781250884763 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250375889 $11.99“Emma was a large dog with many small dreams.” She dreams about her favorite things, such as rolling in the grass and splashing in water. In Cooper’s (most recently Yes & No, rev. 5/21) cheerful black-outlined watercolors, Emma’s dreams are pictured as small bluish-gray dogs frolicking vision-like above her.
