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4 weeks ago | 
kirkusreviews.com | Rachel Khoo |Alice McKinley |Nicole Miles |Suzy Kline
Whimsical but message-heavy. A homesick girl helps a stranded magician. Callie is grieving both her mother, who died three years ago, and everything she left back in London after her father moved them to the mountains of Northern Ireland. Her life is further upended when a house mysteriously crash-lands in her garden before turning invisible. The house’s desperate owner, magician Winnifred Potts, asks Callie for help.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Àngela Domínguez |Dav Pilkey |José Garibaldi |Nicole Miles
by Dav Pilkey ; illustrated by Dav Pilkey ; color by Jose Garibaldi ‧What do you get from sewing the head of a smart dog onto the body of a tough police officer? A new superhero from the incorrigible creator of Captain Underpants. Finding a stack of old Dog Mancomics that got them in trouble back in first grade, George and Harold decide to craft a set of new(ish) adventures with (more or less) improved art and spelling.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Devon Holzwarth |Nicole Miles |Laura Hughes
A touching reminder that the stories of our ancestors light the way for generations to come. Two brown-skinned, Latine-cued children playing in an attic discover a suitcase filled with letters and photos as well as a key dangling from a long gold chain. Excitedly, they rush to ask Mamá to tell them the story of these items. She explains how she and their father met, starting with his childhood in an unnamed Spanish-speaking country.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Erin Kelly |Nicole Miles |Mac Barnett |Shawn Harris
It’s hard to argue with success, but guides that actually do the math will be more useful to budding capitalists. How to raise money for a coveted poster: put your friends to work!John, founder of the FUBU fashion line and a Shark Tank venture capitalist, offers a self-referential blueprint for financial success.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Sara Paulson |Peter Brown |Nicole Miles |Elizabeth Builes
by Melba Escobar ; illustrated by Elizabeth Builes ; translated by Sara Lissa Paulson ‧Pedro is separated from his mother on a trip from Bogotá to a Caribbean island. Smallest in his class and bullied, 10-year-old Pedro is thrilled about the vacation but finds himself wondering if his father’s “business trip” is really a permanent estrangement. Manuela and her son are so close that they can read one another’s expressions, but Pedro, angry that she's concealed the truth about his father, runs away.
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May 28, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Tara J. Hannon |Dav Pilkey |José Garibaldi |Nicole Miles
Best friends Tootie the turtle and Teeny the bird weather their share of storms. In the first series installment, Teeny landed in Turtletown and came to the slow realization that she was a bird, not a turtle, and the two BFFs embraced the word Birtle (a portmanteau of bird and turtle) to describe themselves and their activities.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Liz Scanlon |Dung Ho |Nicole Miles |Suzy Kline
Pitch-perfect writing, a charming protagonist, and relatable conflict—what more could readers ask for? Trouble with an insensitive teacher threatens an enthusiastic 8-year-old’s love of school in this series starter. Third grade looks rocky for Bibsy Cross. For the first time, she and her best friend, Natia, aren’t in the same class. And Bibsy’s new teacher, Mrs. Stumper, seems to sigh with irritation every time Bibsy raises her hand.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Drew Beckmeyer |Nicole Miles |Lauren Eldridge
An inspired and strikingly original riff on the back-to-school experience. An extraplanetary, extraordinary first week of school. The first day begins with a line of cars in a drop-off queue and a group of racially diverse kids making their way into the building.
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Feb 17, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Nicole Miles |Suzy Kline
Miller, author of the award-winning memoir Know My Name (2019), makes her middle-grade debut with the story of a Chinese American girl working to reunite the lost socks of New York City with their owners. Inventive but lonely Magnolia Wu, 10, is resigned to a summer stuck at her parents’ laundromat, but her fortunes change when she meets Iris Lam, a Vietnamese American girl who’s just moved to New York.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Boris Dralyuk |Jennifer Croft |Tim Bowers |Nicole Miles
by Taras Prokhasko & Marjana Prokhasko & translated by Boris Dralyuk & Jennifer Croft ; illustrated by Marjana Prokhasko ‧Sweet but not saccharine, with occasional long thoughts buried in the fuzzy warmth. In this tale originally published in Ukraine, mole twins born on the first day of spring discover a generally welcoming world outside their burrow as the seasons pass. Beech Forest is, by and large, a friendly place.
