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Jan 1, 2025 | 
slj.com | Joshua Greene |Sue Morgan |Karen Jensen |Amanda MacGregor
. Feb. 2025. 160p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9781546135852. COPY ISBN Gr 3-7–A gripping and graphic biography of a young Holocaust survivor based on interviews with the subject. This is the true story of Celia Cimmer, a young Jewish teen living in Poland at the start of World War II, who showed incredible bravery and determination in the face of unimaginable brutality and loss.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
slj.com | Sue Morgan |Amanda MacGregor
. Sept. 2024. 32p. Tr $18.95. ISBN 9781771476034. COPY ISBN PreS-Gr 1–Three cats sit looking out the window of a busy city scene that includes cars, buses, bicycles, a person pushing a baby carriage, and even someone flying a kite from a nearby roof. In the course of the day, children wave hello, and the cats nap. A delivery person stops by, and the cats hide. A box appears, and the cats play, eat, and chase one another around, finally going back to looking out the window.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
slj.com | James Gladstone |Sue Morgan |Amanda MacGregor
. Oct. 2024. 36p. Tr $18.95. ISBN 9781771475723. COPY ISBN Gr 1-4–A child and an adult set out with blankets and a telescope to look at the night sky and “wonder about worlds” that can be seen with the naked eye (Venus, Mercury and Mars), only through a telescope (Jupiter and Saturn), and only with space probes (Uranus and Neptune).
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
shropshirestar.com | Sue Morgan
The 500,000 Claas combine harvester, to come off the assembly line at Harsewinkel Germany, home of Claas combine production since the MDB in 1936 was announced recently, leaving the production line in June 2024.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
slj.com | Nathalie Alonso |Sue Morgan |Beatrice Boggs |Belle Boggs
. Aug. 2024. 40p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9781635928112. COPY ISBN Gr 1-4–From his time as a young boy in Puerto Rico, playing ball with a tin can and a tree branch to a World Series–winning MVP, Roberto Clemente was an extraordinary baseball player. Recruited onto a Major League team at age 19, Clemente was drafted onto the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1954.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
slj.com | Sue Morgan |Beatrice Boggs |Belle Boggs
. Aug. 2024. 28p. Board $14.99. ISBN 9781499814941. COPY ISBN PreS-K–A 26-letter poem of positivity fills this inspirational board book. Each alphabet letter is expressed in one or more words of affirmation, such as amazing, dynamic, imaginative, radiant, and questioning. The only slightly less upbeat M-N combination—“Mighty, magnificent, messy./ But it’s not necessary to be neat all the time”—provides a bit of a break from the dizzying array of wonderfulness.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
slj.com | Sarah Albee |Sue Morgan |Beatrice Boggs |Belle Boggs
by (text) & illus. by Stacy Innerst . Aug. 2024. 40p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9781662680007. COPY ISBN K-Gr 4–George Washington did not like to sit still. Fortunately, portrait painter Gilbert Stuart didn’t need him to. In fact, Stuart would joke and tell stories and let his subjects walk around the room, and even invite family and friends to join them.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
schoollibraryjournal.com | Sue Morgan
. May 2024. 40p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9780062969583. COPY ISBN Gr 2-4–The reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park after the animals were hunted almost to the point of extinction is the topic of this intriguing book that combines the story of how the presence or absence of one species can affect an entire ecosystem.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
slj.com | Sue Morgan
PreS-Gr 2–Dreamy, earth-toned pastel drawings and quiet, spare text are used to great effect in this lovely book about a boy’s curiosity and wonder about the natural world. A boy and his older sister, both with brown skin, are shown walking around their neighborhood smelling magnolia blossoms, admiring a quince tree, and gathering a bunch of daffodils. Then it’s off to her garden to weed out the crabgrass and clover, while leaving the fledgling vegetable sprouts to continue growing.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
slj.com | Lori Alexander |Sue Morgan
. Mar. 2024. 40p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9781662680212. COPY ISBN Gr 1-3–Were it not for the “Cactus Queen” Minerva Hoyt, the Joshua Tree National Park in California might never have existed. Hoyt, born in Mississippi before the turn of the last century, grew up to become an avid gardener, and moved to the Los Angeles area in the 1920s, just as the city was coming into its own.
