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Review of the Day: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
When You Reach Me By Rebecca Stead Wendy Lamb Books (Random House imprint) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-73742-5 Ages 11-14 I’ve been struggling over how to begin this review. I want to get it exactly right....
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Review of the Day: Raiders’ Ransom by Emily Diamand
Raiders’ Ransom By Emily Diamand Scholastic $17.99 ISBN: 978-0-545-14297-7 Ages 10 and up On shelves now Sometimes you just want to read a book that starts off with a bang and then proceeds to run its...
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Review of the Day: Crunch by Leslie Connor
Crunch By Leslie Connor Katherine Tegan Books (an imprint of Harper Collins) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-06-169229-1 Ages 9-12 On shelves now. Leslie Connor forgive me; I sometimes forget how awesome you are....
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Review of the Day: The Boy at the End of the World by Greg van Eekhout
The Boy at the End of the World By Greg van Eekhout Bloomsbury Children’s Books $16.99 ISBN: 978-1-59990-524-2 Ages 9-12 On shelves June 21, 2011 For all that dystopias are now the #1 hot genre amongst...
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Review of the Day: The Chronicles of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales By Chris Van Allsburg and more Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $24.99 ISBN: 978-0547548104 Ages 9-12 On shelves October 25, 2011...
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Review of the Day: The Dead Gentleman by Matthew Cody
The Dead Gentleman By Matthew Cody Alfred A. Knopf $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-375-85596-2 Ages 9-12 On shelves now Steampunk will never supplant some of the better known genres out there in the hearts and...
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Review of the Day: Eye of the Storm by Kate Messner
Eye of the Storm By Kate Messner Walker (a division of Bloomsbury) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-8027-2313-0 Ages 9-14 On shelves now Pity the science geeks, the math geeks, and other kids that love a ripping...
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Review of the Day: Henry and the Incredibly Incorrigible, Inconveniently...
Henry and the Incredibly Incorrigible, Inconveniently Intelligent Smart Human By Lynn Messina Tater Tot Books $7.99 ISBN: 978-0984901845 Ages 9-12 On shelves now. Every year I swear to myself that I’ll...
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Review of the Day: The Water Castle by Megan Frazer Blakemore
The Water Castle By Megan Frazer Blakemore Illustrated by Jim Kay Walker Books for Young Readers (an imprint of Bloomsbury) $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-8027-2839-5 Ages 9-12 On shelves now Where does fantasy...
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Review of the Day: Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
Flora and Ulysses By Kate DiCamillo Illustrated by K.G. Campbell Candlewick Press ISBN: 978-0-7636-6742-5 $17.99 Ages 9-12 On shelves September 24th I like a bit of subtlety with my “meaning”. What I...
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Fusenews: Berries of new, cots of Cal.
Today I shall begin by ripping out your heart and stomping it into tiny shreds upon the floor. You may be aware that for years I have worked with the real Winnie-the-Pooh toys at NYPL. You may also...
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Review of the Day: Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Found (The Missing: Book One) By Margaret Peterson Haddix Simon & Schuster $15.99 ISBN: 978-1416954170 Ages 8-14 On shelves now I’m a children’s librarian so I get to see a lot of children’s books...
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Review of the Day: Boots and Pieces by Emily Ecton
Boots and Pieces By Emily Ecton Aladdin (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) $5.99 ISBN: 978-1-4169-6167-3 Ages 8-12 On shelves now Straight-to-paperback works of fiction do not tend to win great and...
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Review of the Day: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
When You Reach Me By Rebecca Stead Wendy Lamb Books (Random House imprint) $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-73742-5 Ages 11-14 I’ve been struggling over how to begin this review. I want to get it exactly right....
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Review of the Day: Mars Evacuees by Sophia McDougall
Mars Evacuees By Sophia McDougall Harper Collins $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-06-229399-2 Ages 9-12 I’ve a nasty habit of finishing every children’s book I start, no matter how dull or dire it might be. I am...
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Review of the Day: One Trick Pony by Nathan Hale
One Trick Pony By Nathan Hale Amulet Books (an imprint of Abrams) $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-4197-2128-1 Ages 9-12 On shelves March 14th Let us say, for the sake of argument, that you are a wonderfully...
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Review of the Day: York – The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby
York: The Shadow Cipher By Laura Ruby Walden Pond Press (an imprint of Harper Collins) $17.99 ISBN: 9780062306937 Ages 9-14 On shelves May 9th. A wise bookseller friend of mine once said (and I’m...
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Review of the Day: We’re Not From Here by Geoff Rodkey
We’re Not From Here By Geoff Rodkey Crown Books for Young Readers (an imprint of Random House) $16.99 ISBN: 9781524773045 Ages 9-12 On shelves March 5th There’s stuff in the publishing industry that...
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Review of the Day: Maximillian Fly by Angie Sage
Maximillian FlyBy Angie SageKatherine Tegen Books (an imprint of Harper Collins)$16.99ISBN: 978-0-06-257116-8Ages 10 and upOn shelves June 11th If you are going to make up a world, be it good or be it...
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Stowaway With Me: A Talk With Author John David Anderson
Okay. So remember yesterday when I kept going on and on about how shapeshifters were the big trend of 2021 in children’s middle grade fiction? Welp, I changed my mind. Today I think that the true...
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