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3 weeks ago | 
hbook.com | Eboni Njoku |Patrick Gall |Martha V. Parravano |Michelle Lee
All the Blues in the Sky by Renée WatsonMiddle School Bloomsbury 208 pp. 2/25 9781547605897 $17.99e-book ed. 9781547605903 $12.59“I didn’t know / best friends could die.” From the very first line, Watson takes a deep dive into the intricacies of grief and healing. On her thirteenth birthday, Sage is looking forward to spending the day with her best friend; instead, she receives news that her friend has been killed by a drunk driver.
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1 month ago | 
hbook.com | Deirdre Baker |Patrick Gall |Martha V. Parravano |Michelle Lee
The Lost Ones [Moonwind Mysteries]by Johan Rundberg; trans. from Swedish by Eva ApelqvistMiddle School Amazon Crossing Kids 222 pp. 1/25 9781662525940 $17.99Paper ed. 9781662525957 $9.99Rundberg’s pair of 1880s detectives—twelve-year-old orphan Mika from Stockholm’s Public Children’s Home and police detective Valdemar Hoff—investigate the disappearance of a wealthy family’s teenage daughter, Beatrice.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
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.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
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.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
hbook.com | Martha V. Parravano |Patrick Gall |Betty Carter |Kristine Techavanich
Thunder City [Mortal Engines]by Philip ReeveMiddle School, High School Scholastic 336 pp. 11/24 9781546138235 $19.99e-book ed. 9781546138242 $19.99This prequel to Reeve’s acclaimed postapocalyptic, steampunk Mortal Engines series opens some two hundred years earlier, during the peaceful Golden Age of Traction, as the city of Thorbury is violently boarded and captured by villain Gabriel Strega.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Patrick Gall |Brian Wilson |Pauletta Brown Bracy |Jessica Agudelo
The Next Scientist: The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of the World’s Great Scientists by Kate Messner; illus. by Julia KuoPrimary, Intermediate Chronicle 64 pp. 8/24 9781452176963 $19.99This attractive, informative, and ambitious collective biography begins with a challenge: “Quick! Name the world’s greatest scientist.” Messner (The Next President, rev.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
hbook.com | Brian Wilson |Pauletta Brown Bracy |Patrick Gall |Jessica Agudelo
Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos by Nathalie Alonso; illus. by Rudy GutierrezPrimary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 40 pp. 8/24 9781635928112 $18.99e-book ed. 9781635928129 $11.99In engaging, economical, and colloquial prose, Alonso chronicles the ascent and career highs of legendary right fielder Clemente (1934–1972), who endured racism as a Spanish-speaking Black man while shattering records during his illustrious baseball career.
