Reviews
Up for Sale: Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
“An accessible style, brief chapters set off by subheadings, ample definitions, and nuanced background information regarding the economics and international scope of trafficking will help researchers understand context.” —Booklist View →
Playing Pro Basketball
“With such a popular subject and wealth of action images, this seems headed toward immediate popularity for browsing and independent reading…. A solid gateway book for readers interested in the NBA.” —Booklist View →
Ghostly Evidence: Exploring the Paranormal
“The spooky cover, storylike narrative style, and subject matter are sure attention-getters, and the accessible format will appeal to researchers and browsers alike. This will be a welcome addition for school and public collections.” —Booklist View →
Dino-Boarding
“Well suited to the series’ audience, the book’s rhymed couplets and digital illustrations capture the energy and excitement of sports competitions.” —Booklist View →
Those Magnificent Sheep in Their Flying Machines
“Children will enjoy this delightful global romp.” —Booklist View →
Bug on a Bike
“Monroe’s (Cookie, the Walker) cumulative verse reveals a penchant for nonsense and non sequitur, while her wispy cartoons have a manic energy that matches the text’s quirkiness and showcases amusing transportation-related details…. This boisterous outing View →
Sometimes You Barf
“[Carlson] writes with empathy, reassurance, and a ’them’s the breaks, kid’ brand of humor as she follows a girl’s bout with the flu…. and her matter-of-fact writing and visual demonstrations that everything from aardvarks to leprechauns throw up, too, View →
“A solid Mouse Math entry that will help youngsters just beginning to add and subtract by ones and twos.” —Kirkus Reviews View →
My Heart is Laughing
“This deeply respectful book validates and celebrates the daily challenges of being a child in today’s world.” —Kirkus Reviews View →
“[An] exceptional debut novel for middle graders…. Both cinematic and pleasingly literary, this will keep readers entranced.” —starred, Kirkus Reviews View →
Bug on a Bike
“A fun-filled and humorous picture book about friendship and sharing…. Snappy and exuberant, this rhyming picture book is sure to be a hit in a read-aloud.” —Kirkus Reviews View →
Lark Ascending
“[T]his is a mighty strong finish to the trilogy, and there is plenty to keep readers turning the pages.” —Kirkus Reviews View →
The Championship!: Book 4
“When two of their schoolmates are kidnapped, Tao and his friends team up to find them. In the fourth installment of this French graphic-novel series, Richard and Ryser set aside their usual short gags for a single book-length mystery: the disappearance of Master Snow’s two… View →
Perfectly Good White Boy
“Mesrobian… excels at conveying the awkwardness and wonder of sex…. [She] deftly conveys just how much drama there is in the everyday, especially for a 17-year-old trying to figure out not just what’s next, but what’s happening right now.” —starred,… View →
Perfectly Good White Boy
“©harged with a truth and an ambiguity that makes hope and love believable.” —Star Tribune View →
Apple Days: A Rosh Hashanah Story
“this will be welcomed by young families and religious preschools looking for holiday activities” — Booklist Online View →
Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
“[M]akes the most of its source material on two levels, both as true crime and as social commentary.”—Publishers Weekly View →
Bubbe's Belated Bat Mitzvah
“Pinson makes an assured authorial debut with a much-needed story about an increasingly common Jewish life cycle ritual.” —starred, Publishers Weekly View →
Out of the Tunnel
“With the kickoff of the Red Zone series… Jones shows that the cult of blind jock worship is still alive and well, but it’s also being challenged by independent-minded student athletes.” —Publishers Weekly View →
Make Something of It
“Seventeen-year-old aspiring fashion designer Shelby turns the glare of attention into a positive when she takes a stand against domestic violence.” —Publishers Weekly View →
White Space
“This is a fascinating, intricate story with multiple threads running through it. It is a combination of mystery, science fiction, and horror—an exciting page-turner.” —starred, The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books View →
“[An] empowering memoir that should have ample appeal for any kid who feels like an outsider.”—Booklist View →
“Purchase where graphic novel memoirs are in demand.”—School Library Journal View →