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Nine Days: American High School Student Experience Human Rights Abuse in China, A Novel by Fred Hiatt

On April 9, 2013, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, Young Adult Literature, by Editor

A fast-paced contemporary thriller in the vein of James Patterson and Anthony Horowitz set against the bustling backdrop of Hong Kong, Vietnam, and the border of China. This heart-pounding adventure takes place as two teens, an American teenage boy and his friend, a Chinese girl from his Washington, DC-area high school, must find her father who has been kidnapped.

Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone

On February 8, 2013, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, by Editor

They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II.

My Brother’s Book, The Last Finished Work by Maurice Sendak

On February 5, 2013, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, Fiction, Poetry, by Editor

Fifty years after Where the Wild Things Are was published comes the last book Maurice Sendak completed before his death in May 2012, My Brother’s Book. With influences from Shakespeare and William Blake, Sendak pays homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion for writing and drawing.

The One and Only Ivan, A Tale of a Gorilla’s Renewed Life by Katherine Applegate

On January 29, 2013, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, Fiction, by Editor

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create Ivan’s unforgettable first-person narration in a story of friendship, art, and hope.

Unspoken: A Story From the Underground Railroad by Henry Cole

On January 4, 2013, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, Fiction, by Editor

Unspoken gifts of humanity unite the girl and the runaway as they each face a journey: one following the North Star, the other following her heart. Henry Cole’s unusual and original rendering of the Underground Railroad speaks directly to our deepest sense of compassion.

Navigating Early, A Wilderness Journey Through Guilt and Grief by Clare Vanderpool

On January 3, 2013, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, Fiction, Historical Novel, by Editor

At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother’s death and placed in a boy’s boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black bear in the nearby mountains.

Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty by Jane Yolen

On December 28, 2012, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, Fiction, by Editor

A reimagining of Sleeping Beauty from a master storyteller. With her trademark depth, grace, and humor, Jane Yolen tells readers the “true” story of the fairy who cursed Sleeping Beauty.

The Pushcart War, War and Peace on the Streets of New York by Jean Merrill

On December 20, 2012, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, Fiction, by Editor

The pushcarts have declared war! New York City’s streets are clogged with huge, rude trucks that park where they want, hold up traffic, and bulldoze into anything that is in their way, and the pushcart peddlers are determined to get rid of them. But the trucks are just as determined to get rid of the pushcarts, and chaos results in the city.

Will Sparrow’s Road, A Story of Elizabethan England by Karen Cushman

On December 15, 2012, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, Fiction, Historical Novel, by Editor

In his thirteenth year, Will Sparrow, liar and thief, becomes a runaway. On the road, he encounters a series of con artists—a pickpocket, a tooth puller, a pig trainer, a conjurer—and learns that others are more adept than he at lying and thieving. The rowdy world of market fairs in Elizabethan England is the colorful backdrop for Newbery medalist Cushman’s new comic masterpiece.

“Who Could That Be at This Hour?” (All the Wrong Questions) by Lemony Snicket

On December 12, 2012, in Book Reviews, Children's Literature, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He started by asking questions that shouldn’t have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn’t be read. This is the first volume.