Review

Warren, Andrea. Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, A Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II. Biography. Holiday, 04/2019. 214pp. $22.99. 978-0-8234-4151-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 5-8. Sibert honoree Warren offers [continue reading]

Quintero, Isabel. My Papi Has a Motorcycle. Zeke Peña, Illus. Picture Book. Kokila, 05/2019. 40pp. $17.99. 978-0-525-55341-0. OUTSTANDING. GRADES K-3. In the author’s note at the end of My Papi Has a Motorcycle, Isabel Quintero [continue reading]

Thorn, Theresa. It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book about Gender Identity. Noah Grigni, Illus. Picture Book. Holt, 04/2019. [34]pp. $17.99. 978-1-250-30295-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-3. A gently informative picture book that introduces characters with [continue reading]

Takai, George, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott. They Called Us Enemy. Harmony Becker, Illus. Graphic. Top Shelf, 07/2019. 204[+4]pp. PB $19.99. 978-1-60309-450-4. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 7-ADULT. Actor George Takai, best known as Star Trek’s Sulu, leads [continue reading]

Lee, Stacey. Downstairs Girl, The. Fiction. Putnam, 08/2019. 384pp. $17.99. 978-1-5247-4095-5. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 8-12. In 1890 Atlanta, Jo Kuan, a 17-year-old Chinese American girl, has just lost her job with a milliner for being a [continue reading]

Atkins, Marcie Flinchum. Wait, Rest, Pause: Dormancy in Nature. Non-fiction. Millbrook/Lerner, 09/2019. [32]pp. $27.99. 978-1-5415-6192-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-2. Don’t miss this well-executed non-fiction book for older pre­school to second graders about a rarely discussed concept, [continue reading]