Reviews

Gr 4–6—After his dangerous and very public summer with the Alliance of the Impossible in The Nameless Hero (Delacorte, 2013), Joshua is hoping for a normal year in seventh grade—or at least as normal as things can get for the son of the world's greatest supervillains...

Gr 5–8—In Wiles's second installment of the trilogy, readers are offered two alternate viewpoints from very different worlds within the same Greenwood, Mississippi town during the tumultuous Freedom Summer of 1964...

Gr 5–8—Middle schooler and self-described "family man" Kevin Spencer returns in another humorous tale...

PreS-K—In the vein of many a picture book today, with a mischievous youngster in a starring role, this title features a classroom full of dinosaurs, all of whom work and play together nicely except for Tyrannosaurus, who destroys everything...

Gr 9 Up—Sixteen-year-old Indigo Blackwood wants nothing more than to focus on her position on the cheerleading squad, her new boyfriend Devon, and patching things up with her jealous friend Bianca...

Gr 9 Up—Maggie Larsen is uprooted by her parents from the busy city of Chicago to the remote and quaint town of Gill Creek...

Gr 8 Up—An achingly beautiful story about the profound impacts of opening oneself to a stranger...

Gr 8 Up—Typical teen Tate consistently argues with his dad about not being able to have a normal life: Why can't he have a girlfriend? Why did he start learning chemistry at age five? Why must he learn so many languages? One day he breaks into his father's super secret lab and finds a cool, scanner-like gadget that glows blue when he waves it over himself and red for his girlfriend...

Gr 5–8—Donnelly, perhaps best-known for her lush and emotionally resonant historical fiction, tries her hand at middle-grade fantasy...