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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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Apr 30, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Rajani LaRocca |Kat Fajardo |Nicole Miles |Suzy Kline
LaRocca picks up the baton for this latest in the series, each of which is written by a different middle-grade author and follows a different student in Mrs. Z’s third grade class. Mrs. Z announces that Curiosity Academy has a new garden. To help raise money for it, Rohan decides to start a pet-care business—an odd choice, as his younger sister, Kavya, points out, given that he dislikes animals. Ever since he was bitten by his music teacher’s cat, he worries that all pets bite.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Megan Lacera |Jorge Lacera |Suzy Kline
by Megan Lacera & Jorge Lacera ; illustrated by Jorge Lacera ; color by Megan Lacera & Jorge Lacera ‧Wild monsters from diverse cultures lurk (and smirk) in this not-so-scary story of fighting for home. A monster surprise emerges from the forest just when a group of friends need it the most.
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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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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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Jan 2, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jordan Scott |Diana Sudyka |Suzy Kline |Deborah Zemke
A reminder not only of nature’s delicate beauty, but also of its fragility. A girl forms an intimate friendship with an Icelandic natural wonder. On the day she’s born, Angela’s father introduces her to Snæfellsjökull, an enormous glacier visible from Reykjavik. Before Angela can walk, they hike there, daughter atop Dad’s back.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Suzy Kline |Amy Wummer |Hena Khan |Berthina Coleman
A beautiful introduction to the people, history, and geography of Cameroon. Two American girls travel through various regions of Cameroon in this illustrated kids’ book. London is 12 and Sydney is 9, and both girls wear brown coveralls and have brown skin and black braids decorated with gold beads. There’s little story here, but the book does include a vast wealth of information about the places the girls visit in Cameroon, including aspects of its culture, history, and geography.
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Sep 23, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Saadia Faruqi |Ani Bushry |Suzy Kline |Deborah Zemke
From the Marya Khan series , Vol. 3 Crisp and vibrant, just like a perfect fall day. Marya Khan finds that winning can mean different things. Marya believes that bigger means better, especially when it comes to pumpkins. The bigger the pumpkin, the more pumpkin curry, cookies, cake, and bread Mama can make! But the family’s trip to the pumpkin patch sours for Marya when she sees her perfectly annoying classmate Alexa R.
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Sep 23, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Saadia Faruqi |Ani Bushry |Suzy Kline |Deborah Zemke
From the Marya Khan series , Vol. 3 Crisp and vibrant, just like a perfect fall day. Marya Khan finds that winning can mean different things. Marya believes that bigger means better, especially when it comes to pumpkins. The bigger the pumpkin, the more pumpkin curry, cookies, cake, and bread Mama can make! But the family’s trip to the pumpkin patch sours for Marya when she sees her perfectly annoying classmate Alexa R.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kate Hoefler |Suzy Kline |Deborah Zemke
A marvelous mix of autumnal spirits with a deeper call for understanding. Prejudice collides with neighborly goodwill when love and truth overcome superstition. “They came in the dark and took the narrow path that only witches used. Everyone said that’s what they were.” A suspicious text laden with ill will and shadowy scratch-lined art full of foreboding imagery fills the top half of the page. On the bottom half, however, a different narrative takes place.
