Chokshi, Roshani. Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality. A Pandava Series Novel; bk. 5. Disney/Hyperion, 04/2022. 373pp. Fiction. Grades 6-8. $16.99. 978-1-368-05544-4. Additional. Aru Shah and her Pandava friends embark on a final quest to save the [continue reading]

Blackall, Sophie. Farmhouse. Sophie Blackall, Illus. Little, Brown, 09/2022. 48pp. Picture Book. Grades Preschool-3. $18.99. 978-0-316-52894-8. OUTSTANDING. A  farmhouse in New York, home to a lively family with twelve children, falls into disrepair after the youngest child grows old [continue reading]

Acevedo, Elizabeth. Inheritance: A Visual Poem. Andrea Pippins, Illus. HarperCollins/Quill Tree, 05/2022. 48pp. Poetry. Grades 5-Adult. $16.99. 978-0-06-293194-8. OUTSTANDING.. Acevedo’s word magic and rhythm combined with Pippins’ saturated and dynamic artwork explore the complex theme [continue reading]

Pasternack, Sofiya. Black Bird, Blue Road. Harper Collins/Versify, 09/2022. 320pp. Fiction. GRADES 5 – 8. $16.99. 978-0-358-57203-9. OUTSTANDING. In the ancient kingdom of Khazaria, twelve-year-old Ziva cares for her beloved twin brother Pesah, who is [continue reading]

Palmer, Charly. Legend of Gravity, The: A Tall Basketball Tale. Charly Palmer, Illus. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 01/2022. 40pp. Picture Book. GRADES 1 – 3. $18.99. 978-0-374-31328-9. OUTSTANDING. A new kid with exceptional skills joins [continue reading]

McGinty, Alice B. Bathe the Cat. David Roberts, Illus. Chronicle, 02/2022. 48pp. Picture Book. GRADES Preschool – 2. $17.99. 978-1-4521-4270-8. OUTSTANDING.  Grandma’s coming to visit and she’s almost here! In a two-dad household a brown-skinned [continue reading]

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]