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Yang, Gene Luen. Lunar New Year Love Story. LeUyen Pham, Illus. First Second, 01/2024. 343 [+9]pp. Graphic. Trade $25.99. 978-1-626-72810-3. Paper $17.99. 978-1-250-90826-1. GRADES 8–12. OUTSTANDING.     Valentina (Val) loves to love Valentine’s Day. But once [continue reading]

Scheffer, Janie. College Gymnastics. All-Access Gymnastics: Lerner Sports. Lerner, 01/2024. 32pp. Nonfiction. Trade $31.99. 979-8765608579. Paper $9.99. 9798765623428. GRADES 3–5. ADDITIONAL.            SERIES REVIEW. Please see: Epic Gymnastics Moments by Margaret J. Goldstein for series review. [continue reading]

Scheffer, Janie. Best Gymnastics Teams. All-Access Gymnastics: Lerner Sports. Lerner, 01/2024. 32pp. Nonfiction. Trade $31.99. 979-8765608548. Paper $9.99. 979-8765623398. GRADES 3–5. ADDITIONAL.            SERIES REVIEW. Please see: Epic Gymnastics Moments by Margaret J. Goldstein for series [continue reading]

Goldstein, Margaret J. Epic Gymnastics Moments. All-Access Gymnastics: Lerner Sports. Lerner, 01/2024. 32pp. Nonfiction. Trade $31.99. 979-8765608562. Paper $9.99. 979-8765623411. GRADES 2–5. HIGH ADDITIONAL.         This five-book series is a great introduction to all levels of [continue reading]

Blackburn, Sarah-SoonLing. Exclusion and the Chinese American Story. Race to the Truth. Random House/Crown, 03/2024. 288pp. Nonfiction. Trade $12.99. 978-0-593-56764-7. Paper $8.99. 978-0-593-56763-0. GRADES 5–8. LOW ADDITIONAL. What is the story of Chinese American history told from a Chinese American perspective? In an effort to expand the narrative [continue reading]

Polak, Monique. Remember This: The Fascinating World of Memory. Valéry Goulet, Illus. Orca, 03/2024. 96pp. Nonfiction. Trade $26.95. 978-1-4598-3412-5. GRADES 5–7. UNSATISFACTORY. Thirteen chapters packed with intriguing information and diverting examples attempt to explain how memories work, what happens in the brain, why some things are [continue reading]

Marrin, Albert. When Forests Burn: The Story of Wildfire in America. Knopf, 03/2024. 256pp. Nonfiction. Trade $24.99. 978-0-5931-2173-3. GRADES 8–12. HIGH ADDITIONAL. You might think a book about wildfire would start with flames, and it does, but before the story gets going our conversational narrator [continue reading]

Lee, Stacey. Kill Her Twice. G.P. Putnam, 04/2024. 400pp. Fiction. Trade $19.99. 978-0-593-53204-1. GRADES 7–12. ADDITIONAL. In 1932 teenaged Gemma Chow, like many Angelenos, burns with a spirit of reinvention, but with her dad ill and her mother expecting, practical matters rule until Gemma, and [continue reading]