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OUTSTANDING! – March 2021

Each month we post an annotated bibliography of books that were rated ‘Outstanding’ at our previous month’s meeting and nominated for our year-end Distinguished List.  Members can see full reviews of these books and many [continue reading]

Published on Apr 5, 2021
Posted by: Eric Barbus
Categories: Outstanding Books of the Month, Review, Updates

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Gone to the Woods Review

Paulsen, Gary. Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood. Biog. Farrar, 01/2021. 357pp. $17.99. 978-0-374-31415-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 7-12. Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet (Atheneum, 1987), offers this unusual episodic memoir written in third person [continue reading]

Published on Apr 3, 2021
Posted by: pennypeck

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Elatsoe Review

Little Badger, Darcie. Elatsoe. Rovina Cai, Illus. Fiction. Levine Querido, 08/2020. 368pp. $18.99. 978-1-64614-005-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 7-12. Ellie is a Lipan Apache teen with the hereditary gift of raising spirits, but primarily the spirit of [continue reading]

Published on Mar 24, 2021
Posted by: pennypeck

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Amari and the Night Brothers

Alston, B. B. Amari and the Night Brothers. Godwin Akpan, Illus. Fiction. Supernatural Investigations Series; bk. 1. Balzer & Bray, 01/2021. 416pp. $17.99. 978-0-06-297516-4. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-7. Amari, one of the few Black girls at [continue reading]

Published on Mar 17, 2021
Posted by: pennypeck

OUTSTANDING! – February 2021

Each month we post an annotated bibliography of books that were rated ‘Outstanding’ at our previous month’s meeting and nominated for our year-end Distinguished List.  Members can see full reviews of these books and many [continue reading]

Published on Mar 8, 2021
Posted by: Eric Barbus
Categories: Outstanding Books of the Month, Review, Updates

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Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy Review

Magoon, Kekla. Highest Tribute, The: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy. Laura Freeman, Illus. Biog. HarperCollins/Quill Tree, 01/2021. [37]pp. $17.99. 978-0-06-291251-0. HIGH ADDITIONAL. GRADES 2-5. This picture book biography presents a straightforward and comprehensive account [continue reading]

Published on Mar 4, 2021
Posted by: pennypeck

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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre Review

Weatherford, Carole Boston. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre. Floyd Cooper, Illus. Non-fiction. Carolrhoda, 02/2021. [32]pp. $17.99. 978-1-5415-8120-3. HIGH ADDITIONAL. GRADES 2-5. Weatherford brings her talents to tell the true story of this race-based massacre in [continue reading]

Published on Feb 24, 2021
Posted by: pennypeck

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Cousins Review

McManus, Karen M. Cousins, The. Fiction. Delacorte, 12/2020. 336pp. $19.99, 978-0-525-70800-1, PLB $22.99, 978-0-525-70801-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 8-12. Twenty-four years ago, fabulously wealthy reclusive widow Mildred Story abruptly disinherited her four children, and the only explanation [continue reading]

Published on Feb 16, 2021
Posted by: pennypeck
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