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2 months ago | 
hbook.com | Julie Hakim Azzam |Julie Roach |Sarah Ellis |Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
Every Story Ever Told by Ami PolonskyMiddle School Little, Brown 256 pp. 10/24 9780316570978 $16.99e-book ed. 9780316571005 $9.99In this sequel to World Made of Glass (rev. 3/23), set a generation later, seventh grader Stevie (daughter of Iris Cohen, the first book’s protagonist) is attending her New Jersey town’s annual Kickoff to Summer celebration when a mass shooter goes on a killing spree.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
hbook.com | Julie Roach |Sarah Ellis |Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
Quagmire Tiarello Couldn’t Be Better by Mylisa LarsenMiddle School, High School Clarion/HarperCollins 240 pp. 9/24 9780063324664 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063324688 $10.99Quagmire Tiarello, so often misunderstood by his peers and the adults in his life, has a strong sense of loyalty and fairness but little tolerance for rules or authority. This companion to Playing Through the Turnaround (rev.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
hbook.com | Elissa Gershowitz |Sarah Ellis |Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres |Jerry Dear
Pick the Lock by A.S. KingHigh School Dutton 400 pp. 9/24 9780593353974 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593353998 $10.99Jane, sixteen, lives with her father, Vernon; her younger brother, Henry; house staff; and a rat in a Victorian-style mansion that has been in her mother’s family for generations.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
hbook.com | Sarah Ellis |Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres |Jerry Dear |Miriam Steinberg-Egeth
In this fable/fantasy, Almond (Brand New Boy, rev. 5/22) revisits his signature theme of what it means to be human. Silvester, an elderly... Puppet by David Almond; illus. by Lizzy StewartIntermediate Candlewick 240 pp. 9/24 9781536239171 $18.99e-book ed. 9781536239966 $18.99In this fable/fantasy, Almond (Brand New Boy, rev. 5/22) revisits his signature theme of what it means to be human.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Nicholl Denice Montgomery |Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres |Jessica Agudelo |Eric Carpenter
Star Sailor: My Life as a NASA Astronaut by Charles F. Bolden Jr. and Tonya BoldenMiddle School Candlewick 112 pp. 10/24 9781536216325 $19.99Charles Bolden credits Ron McNair, NASA’s second Black astronaut, with encouraging him to apply to be an astronaut. Despite having been a Marine pilot and holding a master’s degree in a STEM subject, Bolden did not think NASA would consider a five-foot-seven Black man—but to his surprise he was accepted into the astronaut program.
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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 4, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Jonathan Hunt |Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres |Jessica Agudelo |Eric Carpenter
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Ellen HeckPrimary, Intermediate Chronicle 56 pp. 10/24 9781452135144 $19.99“Cold winter winds rattle your window and the blast of the foghorn weaves into your morning dreams, warning ships away from the rocky cliffs behind you.” In a second-person narrative voice, Partridge (Parks for the People, rev.
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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 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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Sep 23, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Martha V. Parravano |Julie Hakim Azzam |Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres
Soul Step by Jewell Parker Rhodes and Kelly McWilliams; illus. by Briana Mukodiri UchenduPrimary Little, Brown 48 pp. 6/24 9780316562713 $18.99“STOMP, CLAP, / FLIP, FLAP, / GO HARD, / SNAP BACK!” A rhythmic refrain immerses readers in step, an age-old African American tradition that includes stomping, clapping, singing, chanting, cheering, and careful choreography.
