Review

Rubin, Susan Goldman. Maya Lin: Thinking with Her Hands.  Biography. Chronicle, 11/2017. 99pp. $17.99. 978-1-4521-0837-7. OUTSTANDING.  GRADES 6-10. In the new biography of Maya Lin, designer of monuments such as the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in [continue reading]

Gratz, Alan. Refugee. Fiction. Scholastic, 07/2017. 338pp. $16.99. 978-0-545-88083-1. OUTSTANDING.  GRADES 6-10. This powerful novel details the plight of three young refugees—Josef, fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939, Isabel, leaving Castro’s Cuba in 1994, and Mahmoud, [continue reading]

Yuly, Toni. Jelly Bean Tree, The. Toni Yuly, Illus. Picture Book. Feiwel, 06/2017. 40pp. $17.99. 978-1-250-09406-3. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-K.  Jelly Bean is a blue giraffe who loves napping among tall trees with her head resting [continue reading]

Thomas, Kara. Little Monsters. Fiction. Delacorte, 07/2017. 324pp. $17.99. 978-0-553-52149-8. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 8-12. Kara Thomas’s (The Darkest Corners, 2016) second psychological mystery is a thrillingly menacing and atmospheric chiller in which none of the characters [continue reading]

Bradford, Wade. Around the World in a Bathtub: Bathing All Over the World. Micha Archer, Illus. Non-fiction.  Charlesbridge, 06/2017. [32]pp. $16.99. 978-1-58089-544-6. OUTSTANDING. GRADES PRE-3. Around the world, children battle grownups in the daily ritual [continue reading]

Zoboi, Ibi. American Street. Ibi Zoboi, Illus. Fiction. Balzer & Bray, 2017. 324 [+5]pp. $17.99. 978-0-06-247304-2. OUTSTANDING. GRADES 9-ADULT. Fabiola Toussaint and her mother have been planning their re­turn to Detroit from their native Haiti [continue reading]