Patrick Gall

2 days ago | hbook.com | Patrick Gall |Martha V. Parravano |Michelle Lee |Adrienne L. Pettinelli

Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School    First Second    256 pp. 1/25    9781250869814    $25.99Paper ed. 9781250869821    $17.99e-book ed. 9781250412119    $11.99This deeply personal and poetic graphic novel illustrates the heroic actions of everyday Dutch people as they resisted the Nazi regime, as well as the lingering trauma inherited by subsequent generations.

2 weeks ago | hbook.com | Patrick Gall |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano

A Home for Unusual Monsters [Kairos Files]by Shaun David HutchinsonIntermediate, Middle School    Labyrinth Road/Random    288 pp. 2/25    9780593646335    $17.99e-book ed. 9780593646359    $10.99This sequel to The School for Invisible Boys (rev. 1/24) shifts its focus to twelve-year-old Samantha Osbourne, budding agent for the clandestine paranormal research group Kairos, as she navigates adolescence, grief, and monsters.

2 weeks ago | hbook.com | Patrick Gall |Adrienne L. Pettinelli |Sarah Ellis |Martha V. Parravano

Run Away with Me by Brian Selznick; illus. by the authorHigh School    Scholastic    320 pp. 4/25    9781339035529    $24.99e-book ed. 9781546110224    $24.99Selznick’s first young adult work is imbued with romance and mystery, bookended with long, cinematic passages of textural, wordless, black-and-white illustrations in his signature style.

2 months ago | hbook.com | Deirdre Baker |Dean Schneider |Patrick Gall

The Curse of Madame Petrova by Marjolijn Hof; illus. by Annette Fienieg; trans. from Dutch by Bill NagelkerkeMiddle School    Em Querido/Levine Querido    272 pp. 9/24    9781646144532    $18.99Silke and her twin brother, Janis, are fated to cause each other’s demise, or so predicted Madame Petrova when she read the cards for Papa and Mama before the children’s birth. Now orphaned and afraid their grasping cousins will make them fulfill this terrible destiny, Silke and Janis flee.

2 months ago | hbook.com | Deirdre Baker |Patrick Gall |Betty Carter |Kristine Techavanich

Under the Same Stars by Libba BrayHigh School    Farrar    480 pp. 2/25  9780374388942    $24.99e-book ed. 9780374388959    $12.99In this ambitious work, Bray alternates three seemingly disparate stories, briefly braiding them into one near the novel’s end. In 1940s Germany, Sophie and Hanna are devotees of the Bridegroom’s Oak, a hollow tree famed as a post box for exchanging love letters.