33 Stellar Books, Including Katherine Applegate's 'The One and Only' Finale | Web Starred Reviews, May 2024

Poetry, graphic novels, and more shine this month.

Patterns, Patterns Everywhere (Menendez) ©2024 by Kellie Menendez
Patterns, Patterns Everywhere (Menendez) ©2024 by Kellie Menendez

 

Picture Books 

Abed, Omar. The Book That Almost Rhymed. illus. by Hatem Aly. Dial. 

Amador, Brian. El doble de amigos. illus. by Vanina Starkoff. Barefoot. 

Azúa Kramer, Jackie. ¡Boogie en el Bronx! tr. from English by Brian Amador. illus. by Jana Glatt. Barefoot. 

Brown-Wood, JaNay. Jam, Too? illus. by Jacqueline Alcántara. Penguin/Nancy Paulsen. 

Jackson, Colter. Everyday Brave. illus. by Colter Jackson. Beaming Bks. 

Matias, Carlos. Emergency Quarters. illus. by Gracey Zhang. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen. 

Menendez, Kellie. Patterns, Patterns Everywhere. illus. by Kellie Menendez. Collective Book Studio. 

Quintero, Isabel. Mamá’s Panza. illus. by Iliana Galvez. Penguin/Kokila. 

Robinson, Casey W. Small Things Mended. illus. by Nancy Whitesides. Penguin/Rocky Pond. 

Shum, Benson. Imagine You and Me. illus. by Benson Shum. Penguin/Dial.

Sylvester, Natalia. La maleta de tesoros. tr. by Natalia Sylvester. illus. by Juana Medina. Dial. 

Welsh, Clare Helen. All the Animals Were Sleeping. illus. by Jenny Løvlie. Nosy Crow. 

 

Transitional Graphic Novels

Donnelly, Rebecca. Survival of the Fittest. illus. by Misa Saburi. Holt. 

Frederick-Frost, Alexis. Team Unihorn and Woolly: Attack of the Krill. illus. by Alexis Frederick-Frost. HarperAlley. 

 

 

Middle Grade

Applegate, Katherine. The One and Only Family. HarperCollins. 

Kahakauwila, Kristiana. Clairboyance. HarperCollins. 

Tracy, Taylor. Murray Out of Water. HarperCollins/Quill Tree. 

 

YA 

Evans, Desiree S. & Saraciea J. Fennell, eds. The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories. Flatiron. 

Hesse, Monica. The Brightwood Code. Little, Brown. 

Miller, Samuel. Dark Parts of the Universe. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen. 

Tan, June CL. Darker by Four. HarperTeen. 

 

YA Graphic Novels

Aguirre, Jorge. Call Me Iggy. illus. by Rafael Rosado. First Second. 

 

Nonfiction Elementary

Burns, Loree Griffin. One Long Line: Marching Caterpillars and the Scientists Who Followed Them. illus. by Jamie Green. MIT Kids. 

Kelkar, Supriya. And Yet You Shine: The Kohinoor Diamond, Colonization, and Resistance. illus. by Supriya Kelkar. Candlewick. 

Lapati, Joanna. Guts for Glory: The Story of Civil War Soldier Rosetta Wakeman. illus. by Joanna Lapati. Eerdmans. 

Meadows, Michelle. Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin. illus. by Jamiel Law. HarperCollins. 

Nogués Otero, Alex. Plantas que hablan, animales que cantan. illus. by Asia Orlando. Editorial Flamboyant. 

Rodaah, Rahma. Dear Muslim Child. illus. by Aya Ghanameh. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray. 

Rogers, Kim. I Am Osage: How Clarence Tinker Became the First Native American Major General. illus. by Bobby Von Martin. HarperCollins/Heartdrum. 

Simler, Isabelle. Home. tr. from French by Vineet Lal. illus. by Isabelle Simler. Eerdmans. 

 

Nonfiction Middle to High School

Fadeeva, Olga. Water: Discovering the Precious Resource All Around Us. tr. from Russian by Lena Traer. Eerdmans. 

Watkins, Steve. The Mine Wars: The Bloody Fight for Workers’ Rights in the West Virginia Coalfields. Bloomsbury. 

 

Poetry

Shanté, Angela. The Unboxing of a Black Girl. Page Street YA. 

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