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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Deirdre Baker |Patrick Gall |Betty Carter |Kristine Techavanich
Under the Same Stars by Libba BrayHigh School Farrar 480 pp. 2/25 9780374388942 $24.99e-book ed. 9780374388959 $12.99In this ambitious work, Bray alternates three seemingly disparate stories, briefly braiding them into one near the novel’s end. In 1940s Germany, Sophie and Hanna are devotees of the Bridegroom’s Oak, a hollow tree famed as a post box for exchanging love letters.
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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Martha V. Parravano |Patrick Gall |Betty Carter |Kristine Techavanich
Thunder City [Mortal Engines]by Philip ReeveMiddle School, High School Scholastic 336 pp. 11/24 9781546138235 $19.99e-book ed. 9781546138242 $19.99This prequel to Reeve’s acclaimed postapocalyptic, steampunk Mortal Engines series opens some two hundred years earlier, during the peaceful Golden Age of Traction, as the city of Thorbury is violently boarded and captured by villain Gabriel Strega.
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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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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Marva Hinton |Joan Yolleck |Kristine Techavanich |Betty Carter
A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story by Nadia Salomon; illus. by London LaddPrimary Philomel 40 pp. 9/24 9780593525913 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593525920 $11.99This picture-book biography begins with Evers-Williams (b. 1933), the first woman to chair the NAACP full time, speaking at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. “Her voice—strong yet gentle. Soft—but powerful.” But in flashbacks, readers learn that she didn’t always feel comfortable speaking up.
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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Joan Yolleck |Kristine Techavanich |Betty Carter |Michelle Lee
Dive, Dive into the Night Sea by Thea Lu; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick Studio 32 pp. 10/24 9781536234152 $19.99A figure stands on the edge of a boat (on the title-page spread) and then dives into the sea, a luminous, full moon shining brightly in the background. Once in the sea, the diver’s headlamp leads the way.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
hbook.com | Kristine Techavanich |Betty Carter |Michelle Lee |Martha V. Parravano
Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan; illus. by the authorMiddle School Roaring Brook 288 pp. 9/24 9781250855336 $22.99Paper ed. 9781250855343 $14.99In a graphic memoir set in 1993, thirteen-year-old Chinese Canadian Ruth is apprehensive about her family’s upcoming move from Toronto to Hong Kong. While her parents are thrilled (her mother is returning home after thirty years), Ruth loves her life in Toronto and doesn’t want to leave.
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May 28, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Martha V. Parravano |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Kristine Techavanich |Sylvia Vardell
Max in the House of Spies [Operation Kinderspion]by Adam GidwitzIntermediate, Middle School Dutton 336 pp. 2/24 9780593112083 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593112090 $10.99From the moment eleven-year-old Max Bretzfeld arrives in England as a Jewish evacuee from WWII Germany (accompanied by two immortal, opinionated, and invisible-to-others creatures, a kobold and a dybbuk), his overriding desire is to return to Berlin.
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Jerry Dear |Kristine Techavanich |Sylvia Vardell |Anita L. Burkam
49 Days by Agnes Lee; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School Levine/Levine Querido 352 pp. 3/24 9781646143740 $24.99Paper ed. 9781646143757 $18.99The Buddhist belief that the soul goes through “a state between life and rebirth” for forty-nine days before crossing over provides the intriguing structure for Lee’s debut graphic novel. The story straddles the worlds of the living and the dead, beginning with a Korean American girl named Kit awakening by a shore.
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Kristine Techavanich |Sylvia Vardell |Jerry Dear |Anita L. Burkam
Sunny Parker Is Here to Stay by Margaret FinneganIntermediate Atheneum 288 pp. 4/24 9781665930086 $17.99e-book ed. 9781665930109 $10.99Eleven-year-old Sunny Parker lives with her father, the manager and handyman of Del Mar Garden Apartments, an affordable housing complex. She had anticipated that the summer before middle school would be boring but is propelled into activism when she realizes that protests against a new housing project oppose the people in her own community.
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May 15, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Anita L. Burkam |Kristine Techavanich |Sylvia Vardell |Jerry Dear
Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger; illus. by Rovina CaiMiddle School, High School Levine/Levine Querido 400 pp. 4/24 9781646143795 $19.99Cryptids and Fae abound in the slightly off-kilter version of 1970s Texas that serves as the setting for this prequel to Elatsoe (rev. 9/20). Seventeen-year-old Shane and her mother, Lorenza, work with their bloodhounds (and one ghost hound) to track lost people.
