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Chang and the Elephant Review

Nhuyēn, Trang. Chang and the Elephant. Jeet Zdūng, Illus. Translation help from Vietnamese by Hoãng Duy. Saving H’Non. Dial, 10/2023. 128pp. Graphic. Trade $23.99. 978-0-5934-0673-1. Paper $13.99. 978-0-5934-0672-4. GRADES 4–7. OUTSTANDING. A young Vietnamese wildlife conservationist, Chang, helps save an abused Asian elephant named H’non from a lifetime of cruel servitude. [continue reading]

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Warrior Girl Unearthed Review

Boulley, Angeline. Warrior Girl Unearthed. Henry Holt, 05/2023. 396pp. Fiction. Trade $19.99. 978-1-2507-6658-8. GRADES 8–12. OUTSTANDING.      Looking forward to a lazy “2014 Summer of Slack” spent fishing, sixteen-year-old underachieving Perry Firekeeper-Birch instead finds herself stuck in an internship at the tribal museum, and unexpectedly [continue reading]

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Spying on Spies Review

Moss, Marissa. Spying on Spies: How Elizebeth Smith Friedman Broke the Nazis’ Secret Codes. Marissa Moss, Illus. Abrams, 03/2024. 224pp. Biography. Trade $19.99. 978-1-4197-6731-9. GRADES 7–12. OUTSTANDING.         In her long life breaking codes and thus saving millions of lives, Elizebeth Friedman had to suffer a lot of [continue reading]

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Wild River and the Great Dam Review

Boughton, Simon. Wild River and the Great Dam, The: The Construction of the Hoover Dam and the Vanishing Colorado River. Christy Ottaviano, 03/2024. 256pp. Nonfiction. Trade $19.99. 978-0-316-38074-4. GRADES 7–12. OUTSTANDING.           One of the largest infrastructure projects in the world, the Hoover Dam transformed [continue reading]