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October Starred Reviews

October Starred Reviews
SLJ,  Oct 14, 2014
Travel to an English boarding school with wild tomboy Will in Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, learn how Roget determined The Right Word, and listen to The Girls in the Band with the October stars, which offer the best of fiction, nonfiction, and multimedia.
Starred reviews, November/December 2014 Horn Book Magazine

Starred reviews, November/December 2014 Horn Book Magazine
Roger Sutton | Blogs,  Oct 07, 2014

The following books will receive starred reviews in the November/December 2014 Horn Book Magazine. I am also told that we have broken our own record for number of books reviewed in a single issue, north of 130.   Sam & Dave Dig a Hole; by Mac Barnett; illus. by Jon Klassen (Candlewick) (page 57) The Farmer and […]

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Kirkus Prize Finalists

Kirkus Prize Finalists
Karyn Silverman | Blogs,  Oct 03, 2014
In case you missed the news when it was first announced, or the recent news of the finalists, Kirkus Reviews now offers a really excellent writing award — it’s monetary, to the tune of $50,000, which for many authors probably represents a lot more time to write. The nominee list — all the star reviews [...]
September Starred Reviews

September Starred Reviews
SLJ,  Sep 06, 2014
Get the inside scoop behind the whale who inspired Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, take a walk on the wild side with The Accidental Highwayman, and blast off with Sally Ride, in the September stars, which offer the best of fiction, nonfiction, and multimedia.
July Starred Reviews

July Starred Reviews
SLJ,  Jul 01, 2014
Ben Franklin makes a splash, Hervé Tullet mixes it up, and Mo Willems makes new friends in the July stars, offering the best of fiction, nonfiction, and multimedia.
Bellweather Rhapsody

Bellweather Rhapsody
Angela Carstensen | Blogs,  Jun 20, 2014
A mystery that takes place during a high school music festival set in an old resort hotel during a snowstorm? The Bellweather is certainly less terrifying than The Overlook of The Shining fame, but it holds its own secrets–especially room 712. In the introduction to her novel’s playlist on Largehearted Boy, Kate Racculia shares that she played the bassoon [...]
Mixed-Race Relationships

Mixed-Race Relationships
Angela Carstensen | Blogs,  Jun 16, 2014
Today we have two stand-out novels involving race and immigration that are told from multiple points of view. Both involve the weight of parental expectations. Everything I Never Told You is Celeste Ng‘s debut novel, and our starred review joins other stars from LJ, Booklist and PW.  This is a dysfunctional family story in which [...]
Starred reviews, July/August 2014 Horn Book Magazine

Starred reviews, July/August 2014 Horn Book Magazine
Roger Sutton | Blogs,  Jun 05, 2014

The following books will receive starred reviews in the July/August issue of the Horn Book Magazine. Also: Newbery, Caldecott, and CSK speeches and profiles; the lowdown on Caldecott committee work; Mind the Gap; and my editorial on a Newbery/Caldecott scandal in the making.   Emily’s Blue Period; by Cathleen Daly; illus. by Lisa Brown (Porter/Roaring Brook). Hermelin […]

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Novels about the One Percent

Novels about the One Percent
Angela Carstensen | Blogs,  Apr 21, 2014
Today we have two very different novels that feature the lives of the uber-wealthy. I love Jamie Watson’s reference to Brideshead Revisited in her starred review of The Last Enchantments. I was completely obsessed with that novel when we read it in senior year English, and I think the fact that I never fully understood [...]
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