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Golusky, Jackie. Top 10 Minecraft Potions: An Unofficial List. Searchlight Books – Minecraft Top Tens. Lerner, 01/2025. 32pp. Nonfiction. PLB $30.65. 979-8-7656-4758-5. Paper $10.99. 979-8-7656-6235-9. GRADES 2–5. LOW ADDITIONAL.        SERIES REVIEW. Please see: Top Ten [continue reading]

Golusky, Jackie. Top 10 Minecraft Dangerous Mobs: An Unofficial List. Searchlight Books – Minecraft Top Tens. Lerner, 01/2025. 32pp. Nonfiction. PLB $30.65. 979-8-7656-4752-3. Paper $10.99. 979-8-7656-6229-8. GRADES 2–5. LOW ADDITIONAL.          SERIES REVIEW. Please see: Top [continue reading]

Chapman, Ty. Top 10 Minecraft Mods: An Unofficial List. Searchlight Books – Minecraft Top Tens. Lerner, 01/2025. 32pp. Nonfiction. PLB $30.65. 979-8-7656-4755-4. Paper $10.99. 979-8-7656-6233-5. GRADES 2–5. LOW ADDITIONAL.        SERIES REVIEW. Please see: Top Ten [continue reading]

Watson, Olivia. Will We Ever Live on the Moon? Discover the Science Behind Selenology. Veronika Chaves Morales, Illus. Big Questions Answered. Hungry Tomato/Beetle, 02/2025. [32]pp. Nonfiction. Trade $14.99. 978-1-8356-9130-4. GRADES 1–3. ADDITIONAL.         SERIES REVIEW. Please [continue reading]

Yuly, Toni. Go, Sloth, Go! Toni Yuly, Illus. Little Brown, 07/2025. [36]pp. Picture Book. Trade $18.99. 978-0-316-49791-6. GRADES Baby/Toddler–1. OUTSTANDING.             A softly smiling sloth wakes, ready to eat. Her slow climb to the tastiest leaves is narrated in brief, alliterative, rhyming text, punctuated by an interactive, encouraging [continue reading]

Day, Nicholas. World Without Summer, A: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out. Yas Imamura, Illus. Random House, 09/2025. 294pp. Nonfiction. Trade $19.99. 978-0-593-64387-7. GRADES 6–11. HIGH ADDITIONAL.         Animated language, dramatic events, and direct questions for the reader, connect the 1815 volcanic [continue reading]

Heiligman, Deborah. Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story). Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 09/2025. 336pp. Biography. Trade $21.99. 978-1-2508-2307-6. GRADES 10–Adult. HIGH ADDITIONAL. In 1885 sixteen-year-old Emma Goldman immigrated to the United States. By her early twenties, she was at the heart of her [continue reading]

Maudsley, George. Ancient Greece. Eugenia Nobati, Illus. Addl. Creators Lisa Alderson and Daniel Rodgers. The Magnificent Book of Treasures. Weldon Owen, 08/2025. 80pp. Nonfiction. Trade $19.99. 979-8886740677.GRADES 3–7. ADDITIONAL.        Oversize pages and easy-to-read fonts explain thirty-seven objects, found by archaeologists, that help to illustrate life in Ancient [continue reading]