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1 month ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Louis Sachar |Lara Elena Donnelly |Silvia Moreno-Garcia |Jayson Greene
Louis Sachar. Ace, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-59395-230-6National Book Award–winning YA author Sachar (Holes) makes his adult debut with this melancholy, heartfelt, and utterly immersive Renaissance-esque fantasy.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Louis Sachar |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno
An intriguing variation on border stories that looks at the challenges surrounding an intentional family separation. A nonbinary tween explores their identity after they move from Mexico to the U.S. with half their family. Twelve-year-old Ave lives in Mexicali, Baja California, with their dad, Rodolfo, older sister, Cruz, younger brother, Ramón, and mom, Joss.
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2 months ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Betty Tang |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno |Louis Sachar
by Betty C. Tang ; illustrated by Betty C. Tang ‧Tugs at the heartstrings and will spark important, age-appropriate conversations on pertinent, broadly relevant topics. Three siblings continue their immigrant journeys in 1980s California.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Claire Swinarski |Natalie Babbitt |Louis Sachar
However the compelling fitness of theme and event and the apt but unexpected imagery (the opening sentences compare the... At a time when death has become an acceptable, even voguish subject in children's fiction, Natalie Babbitt comes through with a stylistic gem about living forever.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno |Louis Sachar
Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. Chainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), though he leaves the waters muddied. Every four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Janet Fox |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno |Louis Sachar
Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. Chainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), though he leaves the waters muddied. Every four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Gordon Korman |Louis Sachar |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno
Wry, provocative, and shot through with cogent issues. Korman’s cleverly chosen title plays on several themes explored in this outing. Left by his parents in the care of his grandmother and other residents of a retirement community, Dexter has acquired anachronistic manners, speech, and dress—and a broad education that sets him apart when social services force him into seventh grade. He must adjust—and so must his teachers and classmates at the run-down small-town school.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Sandy Green |Louis Sachar |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno
Good Guys and Bad get just deserts in the end, and Stanley gets plenty of opportunities to display pluck and valor in this... Sentenced to a brutal juvenile detention camp for a crime he didn't commit, a wimpy teenager turns four generations of bad family luck around in this sunburnt tale of courage, obsession, and buried treasure from Sachar (Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, 1995, etc.).
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
celebritynetworth.com | Louis Sachar |Mitch Albom
What is Louis Theroux's Net Worth? Louis Theroux is a British broadcaster and journalist who has a net worth of $4 Million. Born in Singapore on May 20, 1970, Theroux is best known for his involvement in BBC and his television series, Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends. Theroux attended school at Westminster School followed by Magdalene College in Oxford. It was there that he received a degree in history and was recognized for his film reviews in the Grapevine magazine.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Louis Sachar |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno
Good Guys and Bad get just deserts in the end, and Stanley gets plenty of opportunities to display pluck and valor in this... Sentenced to a brutal juvenile detention camp for a crime he didn't commit, a wimpy teenager turns four generations of bad family luck around in this sunburnt tale of courage, obsession, and buried treasure from Sachar (Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, 1995, etc.).
