February 2023

Kelly, Erin Entrada. Those Kids from Fawn Creek. Greenwillow, 03/2022. 336pp. Fiction. GRADES 6 – 7. $17.99. 978-0-0629-7035-0. HIGH ADDITIONAL. The twelve, all white, seventh graders at Louisiana’s Fawn Creek Middle School have been stuck [continue reading]

Hood, Susan, with Greg Dawson. Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis. HarperCollins, 03/2022. 352pp. Non-Fiction. GRADES 6 – 9. $16.99. 978-0-06-308389-9. OUTSTANDING. When an eighth grade girl writes her grandmother as part [continue reading]

Hardinge, Frances. Unraveller. Amulet, 01/2023. 432pp. Fiction. GRADES 7 – 12. $19.99. 978-1-4197-5931-4. OUTSTANDING.  In a country with an uneasy truce between the magical and non-magical, there is one sinister crossover: the powerless, filled with [continue reading]

Giles, Crystal G. Not an Easy Win. Random House, 02/2023. 256pp. Fiction. GRADES 5 – 7. $16.99. 978-0-593-17521-7. HIGH ADDITIONAL. African American Lawrence is used to being at the mercy of others, and yet somehow everything always winds up being [continue reading]

Nelson, Marilyn. Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life. Little, Brown/Christy Ottaviano,  01/2022. 128pp. Poetry. GRADES 9 – 12. $18.99. 978-0-316-29802-5. HIGH ADDITIONAL. A biographical portrait in chronological poems captures the character of the African American sculptor’s life and work. [continue reading]

Marks, Janae. On Air with Zoe Washington. Zoe Washington Series; bk. 2. Katherine Tegen, 02/2023. 304pp. Fiction. GRADES 5 – 7. $19.99. 978-0-06-321231-2. HIGH ADDITIONAL. African American Zoe, now fourteen, is moving from strength to strength. She won both her [continue reading]

Reedy, Trent. Fishing in Fire. McCall Mountain Series; bk 2. Norton, 02/2023. 208pp. Fiction. GRADES 5 – 7. $18.95. 978-1-324-01141-5. ADDITIONAL. The end of sixth grade was a disaster when a rivalry between two popular girls broke into a war. [continue reading]

Warga, Jasmine. Rover’s Story, A. Harper Collins, 10/2022. 320pp. Fiction. GRADES 4 – 7. $17.99. 978-0-06-311392-3. OUTSTANDING. Born for observation, and programmed to learn to solve simple problems, a Mars rover named Resilience moves beyond its expected limits: forging friendships with [continue reading]