John Peters
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The Science of Surfing: A Surfside Girls Guide to the Ocean
Likely to make a big splash with middle graders, whether they’re headed for the beach or biology class.
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One Mean Ant with Fly and Flea and Moth
An optionally standalone episode, with enough verbal foolery and exaggerated emotion to keep everyone amused.
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A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi
Reflective young readers will come away with a deeper feeling for one artist’s work, and also how encounters with nature can spark creativity.
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The History of Western Art in Comics Part One: From Prehistory to the Renaissance
A sweeping but strongly Eurocentric overview, most usefully paired with DK’s Children’s Book of Art or another wide-angled survey.
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Jonathan and the Giant Eagle
A head scratcher, both hard to read for its stumbling cadences and, being obscure rather than ambiguous, likely to be passed over rather than engaged with.
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Athena: Goddess of Wisdom and War
A lighthearted, if sanitized, character portrait that will draw elementary grade fans of Marcia Williams’s ventures into classical history and mythology.
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Seen: Rachel Carson
Middle grade report writers will be better served by more conventional biographies—but this is nevertheless a good choice to win hearts as well as minds over to Carson’s compelling message.
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The Two Fridas
Mysterious and evocative, but best considered as a showcase for Folì rather than for Kahlo.
Let’s Taco About How Great You Are
The combination of delicious wordplay and nutritious advice adds up to a happy meal for younger librivores.
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