Review

Vaswani, Neela. This Is My Eye: A New York Story. Neela Vaswani, Illus. Picture Book. Candlewick, 08/2018. 56pp. $16.99. 978-0-7636-7616-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-3. View the world through the lens of a young biracial New York [continue reading]

Avi. Button War, The: A Tale of the Great War. Fiction. Candlewick, 06/2018. 230pp. $16.99. 978-0-7636-9053-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-8.  When bombs begin to fall on Patryk’s village in Poland in 1914, Russian soldiers leave as [continue reading]

Tahe, Rose Ann and Nancy Bo Flood. First Laugh—Welcome, Baby!. Jonathan Nelson, Illus. Picture Book. Charlesbridge, 08/2018. 32pp. $16.99. 978-1-58089-794-5. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-2. First Laugh—Welcome, Baby! follows a multi-generational In­digenous family as a new baby [continue reading]

Medina, Meg. Merci Suarez Changes Gears. Fiction. Candlewick, 09/2018. 368pp. $16.99. 978-0-7636-9049-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 4-6. As a scholarship student at Seaward Pines Academy, navigating middle school is particularly tricky for 11-year-old Merci Su­arez. Merci’s assignment [continue reading]

Soundar, Chitra. You’re Safe with Me. Poonam Mistry, Illus. Picture Book. Lantana, 2018. [36]pp. $17.99. 978-1-911373-29-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-K. Intricate and beautiful illustrations seamlessly blend with the heartwarming text in a bedtime story where frightened [continue reading]

Halls, Kelly Milner. Death Eaters: Meet Nature’s Scavengers. Non-fiction. Millbrook, 10/2018. 40pp. $33.32. 978-1-5124-8200-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 3-7. Without death eaters, the nutrient-starved Earth would be awash in four billion years’ worth of corpses. In five [continue reading]