Patrick Gall

1 month 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.

1 month 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.

1 month ago | 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.

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.

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.