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Review of A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools

3 weeks ago | hbook.com | Betty Carter |Lara K. Aase |Danielle Ford |Monique Harris

A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools by Debbie LevyMiddle School, High School Bloomsbury 256 pp. 1/25 9781547612215 $19.99e-book ed. 9781547612222 $13.99Levy takes readers back one hundred years to the sleepy town of Dayton, Tennessee, and the historic Scopes trial. At first glance, the time period—before television, the internet, and other modern sources of infotainment—seems far removed from our own.
Review of The One & Only Googoosh: Iran’s Beloved Superstar

4 weeks ago | hbook.com | Ariana Sani Hussain |Lara K. Aase |Danielle Ford |Monique Harris

The One & Only Googoosh: Iran’s Beloved Superstar by Azadeh Westergaard; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Viking 40 pp. 11/24 9780593114636 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593114643 $11.99Theatrical scenes in pomegranate reds and peacock greens introduce readers to a young, precocious Googoosh, born Faegheh Atashin, performing in the 1950s with her acrobat father and captivating audiences with her singing.
Review of Coming Home / Tutuqaykingaqw Nima: A Hopi Resistance Story / Hopisino Pahan Tutqayiwuy Ep Yorhomti

1 month ago | hbook.com | Lara K. Aase |Danielle Ford |Monique Harris |Betty Carter

Coming Home / Tutuqaykingaqw Nima: A Hopi Resistance Story / Hopisino Pahan Tutqayiwuy Ep Yorhomti by Mavasta Honyouti; illus. by the author; trans. into Hopi by Marilyn ParraPrimary, Intermediate Levine/Levine Querido 48 pp. 11/24 9781646144570 $18.99Honyouti (Hopi, Iswungwa/Coyote clan) is an award-winning carver.
Review of ¡Vamos!: Let’s Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos

Oct 28, 2024 | hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz |Lara K. Aase |Emma A. Shacochis |Grace Mckinney Beermann

¡Vamos!: Let’s Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos [World of ¡Vamos!]by Raúl the Third; illus. by the author; color by Elaine BayPreschool, Primary Versify/HarperCollins 48 pp.
Review of Being Home

Oct 22, 2024 | hbook.com | Lara K. Aase |Emma A. Shacochis |Grace Mckinney Beermann |Martha V. Parravano

Being Homeby Traci Sorell; illus. by Michaela GoadePrimary Kokila/Penguin 32 pp. 5/24 9781984816030 $18.99e-book ed. 9781984816047 $10.99Caldecott-winning Goade (Tlingit Nation) evokes a unique mood in each book she illustrates. Here she uses gray and dull browns and blues in her mixed-media art to show city scenes, but leafy green to depict the rural ancestral lands of a family’s home, to which they are returning.
Review of Abeni’s Song

Nov 7, 2023 | hbook.com | S. R. Toliver |Anita L. Burkam |Dean Schneider |Lara K. Aase

Abeni’s Song by P. Djèlí ClarkIntermediate, Middle School Starscape/Tor 336 pp. 7/23 9781250825827 $19.99Paper ed. 9781250825841 $8.99e-book ed. 9781250825834 $11.99On Abeni’s twelfth birthday, a witch enters her village to give a grave warning: an evil is coming, and it’s too late to run. The adults prepare for an impossible battle as malevolent women and a shadowy goat man, aided by magical black ropes and an enchanted flute, begin their attack.
Review of Some of These Are Snails

May 29, 2023 | hbook.com | Julie Danielson |Lara K. Aase |Eric Carpenter |J. Elizabeth Mills

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Review of School Trip

Apr 27, 2023 | hbook.com | Dean Schneider |Lara K. Aase |J. Elizabeth Mills

School Tripby Jerry Craft; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School HarperAlley/Quill Tree/HarperCollins 256 pp. 4/23 9780062885548 $24.99Paper ed. 9780062885531 $14.99e-book ed. 9780062885555 $12.99In his third graphic-novel outing (New Kid, rev. 1/19; , rev.