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Selfie Sweepstakes Reviews: Drawbridges Open and Close

Selfie Sweepstakes Reviews: Drawbridges Open and Close
Roger Sutton | Blogs,  Mar 06, 2015

Drawbridges Open and Close; by Patrick T. McBriarty; illus. by Johanna H. Kim. Curly Press, 2014. 40pp. ISBN 978-1-941216-02-6. $15.95 Gr. K-3. I was glad I had read this book prior to my recent visit to Ft. Lauderdale, where everybody gets around by car, negotiating a host of drawbridges back and forth across the Intracoastal […]

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A Love Letter to Salsa, a Tribute to Families, and an Unusual Friendship | Fiction Preschool to Grade 4

A Love Letter to Salsa, a Tribute to Families, and an Unusual Friendship | Fiction Preschool to Grade 4
SLJ,  Mar 05, 2015
The latest titles for children include a gorgeous, bilingual picture book on salsa, a new look at families, and The Skunk a can’t-miss offering from Mac Barnett and Patrick McDonnell.
Hank Williams, the Red Scare, and the Finale to an Unforgettable Trilogy | Fiction Grades 5-8

Hank Williams, the Red Scare, and the Finale to an Unforgettable Trilogy | Fiction Grades 5-8
SLJ,  Mar 05, 2015
The latest middle grade books take on myriad subjects, from a boy struggling to understand the Red Scare to a young girl expressing her life through letters to her pen pal, Hank Williams. And finally, don’t miss Gone Crazy in Alabama, which finishes off the trilogy that began with One Crazy Summer.
SLJ's Starred Reviews | March 2015

SLJ's Starred Reviews | March 2015
SLJ,  Mar 05, 2015
Visit old friends and new with this month's SLJ stars. Will Grayson, Will Grayson fans will delight in finally seeing TIny Cooper's masterpiece come to life, and Avi fans are in for a treat with Catch You Later, Traitor. Graphic novel fans have a wonderfully gruesome new series with "The Lunch Witch," while YA fans looking for a new voice will find it with Claire Fuller's Our Endless Numbered Days.
The Nightingale

The Nightingale
Angela Carstensen | Blogs,  Mar 02, 2015
I’ve written about my regard for Kristin Hannah‘s novels before. The last one I read and reviewed was Night Road, and we also reviewed Fly Away in 2013. Hannah has a way with contemporary family stories. She writes deeply emotional women’s fiction with great characters, usually facing loss or tragedy. This year she brings those [...]
Growing Up in a Cult | SLJ Spotlight

Growing Up in a Cult | SLJ Spotlight
SLJ,  Feb 27, 2015
Four titles that deflty tackle the unusual, unsettling topic of teens growing up in cultlike envinronments.
The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates

The Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates
Mark Flowers | Blogs,  Feb 26, 2015
Considering that it is based on a police case from almost 30 years ago, it is astonishing how much currency Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel has. A black teen is found beaten and apparently raped, naming only “white cops” as the perpetrators before lapsing into silence. The ensuing polarized reactions on the parts of the [...]
Review of the Day: My Near-Death Adventures by Alison DeCamp

Review of the Day: My Near-Death Adventures by Alison DeCamp
Elizabeth Bird | Blogs,  Feb 25, 2015
My Near-Death Adventures (99% True) By Alison DeCamp Crown Books for Young Readers (an imprint of Random House) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-39044-6 Ages 9-12 On shelves now Children’s historical fiction novels often divide up one of two ways. In the first category you have your important moments in history. In such books our heroes run about [...]
SO gay.

SO gay.
Roger Sutton | Blogs,  Feb 23, 2015

The March cover of the Horn Book, that is. Gertrude and the boys should be in your mailbox soonish–we lost a couple of days due to the weather. But dePaola’s springtime palette gives me hope!

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