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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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Sep 10, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Natalie Babbitt |Christina Li
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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Sep 10, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | James Preller |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno |Natalie Babbitt
An introspective and realistic coming-of-age story about rediscovering oneself. Life changes quickly for a middle schooler after an accident forces her to slow down and reevaluate who she is. Thirteen-year-old Kristy Barrett has always attracted attention on the soccer field: As a 4-year-old, people saw her playing and just knew there was something different about her, from her focus to her speed. She was special. This phrase has been repeated her whole life.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Erin Hunter |Dav Pilkey |Natalie Babbitt
A setup volume, ending abruptly in midcourse with dangers aplenty faced and more, plainly, to come. Profound grief and ominous visions of a river of blood spur ThunderClan cat Ivypool and four companions to undertake a dangerous quest. In an episode punctuated by disturbing dreams and visions, Ivypool, who’s caught between hope and despair after the recent loss of Bristlefrost, her kit, leads a multi-Clan expedition into unknown lands.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Katherine Applegate |Charles Santoso |Natalie Babbitt
Tweens and an otherworldly robot may be a small town’s only defense against a planet-destroying alien in Friday’s debut middle-grade novel. A bizarre purple glowing object flying through the dense woods near her Oregon home unnerves 11-year-old Mattie James. She’s reluctant to call it a UFO, or to even mention aliens, but she’s still eager to know what’s out there. Surely, her best friend, Nova Diaz, and the new kid in school, Parker Wu (who has a drone), can help her find out.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Alan Gibbons |Natalie Babbitt |Chad Morris |Shelly Brown
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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Feb 27, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Adam Gidwitz |Natalie Babbitt |Nick Bruel
A duology opener with a truly likable hero and clever puzzling. A determined refugee will do whatever it takes to get back to his parents—even becoming a British spy in Nazi Germany. When 11-year-old Max Bretzfeld, a Jewish boy from Berlin, is sent to England on the Kindertransport in 1939, he’s accompanied by two tiny men on his shoulders whom only he can see. The German kobold and Jewish dybbuk rarely interact with Max, but they comically comment on his circumstances.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Tim Wright |Mac Barnett |Shawn Harris |Natalie Babbitt
Serious, jolly, and instructive—an entertaining Christmas adventure in the best spirit of the season. This middle-grade sequel sees a young teen return to a fantasy world and battle a troll who has plunged the land into despair. Christmas is fast approaching in Minneapolis. Thirteen-year-old Toby Baxter, never much of a reader, is trying to engage with his mom’s favorite holiday book: Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Natalie Babbitt |Chad Morris |Shelly Brown |Steve Bramucci
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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Sep 12, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Natalie Babbitt |Annie Matthew |Kobe Bryant
A quirky examination of true monstrousness with a memorable protagonist. After her father dies, a girl must harness both her temper and innate abilities to find his killer and prove it’s a monster. Dare Coates is willful, surly, and unrepentantly nonconforming: “an awful girl.” Only her father truly understood and loved her, but he was often busy patrolling for monsters on the island where they live, even though one hasn’t been seen there for over 20 years.
