Reviews

A survivor's personal graphic and heart-gripping account of her months in Auschwitz...

Gr 9 Up—Mean Girls from the Land Down Under meet Francesca Lia Block in this import that features, among other things, a teenage Queen Bee who regularly converses with the members of her Barbie Doll collection; a feral girl who may or may not have been partially raised by dingoes; a heartthrob football star whose new pro career is imperiled when he is photographed kissing a girl who (for reasons impossible to explain) is wearing the clothes of his gay best friend; and the lesbian daughter of a maharaja who is avoiding an arranged marriage with an Indian prince while pursuing an Amazonlike classmate whose mother is the deputy prime minister...

Gr 8 Up—Royce, 16, hardly knows his 95-year-old grandfather, a world-renowned cellist and general grump...

PreS-Gr 2—Mama puts her five little chicks to bed, kisses them, and tucks them in...

On August 3, 1916, Irish revolutionary Roger Casement was hanged for treason after being caught trying to run guns from Germany to Ireland...

In this insightful and engaging new book, Oppenheimer, a columnist for the Miami Herald, expresses concern for Latin America's current state of affairs...

PreS-K—Chicken, Pig, and Cow, three toys, return...

Gr 7—10—Trapped by her somewhat dubious parentage and the limited options available to women in 1913 England, 15-year-old Addy longs for a better life...

PreS-Gr 2—A sunny cover invites readers into this collection of nursery rhymes from around the world...