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Tag: middle grade historical fiction
Review of the Day: Max in the House of Spies by Adam Gidwitz
Here we have WWII spy antics, hungry kangaroos, and a hero determined against all odds to help his parents, even if that means fooling Nazis.
Review of the Day: The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh
If you think the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, the famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, and Brooklyn at that same time makes for an awkward tri-narrative, you are wrong. And if you also think that it would be highly difficult to weave three such perspectives together, there you are correct, but it can be done. The Lost Year proves as much.
Review of the Day: The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri, ill. Daniel Miyares
Nothing about this novel is wholly ideal except possibly its intentions and its ability to charm some readers into a general state of submission. The question now is: Are you such a reader?
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Review of the Day: Three Strike Summer by Skyler Schrempp
“Three Strike Summer” is the sports book/ escape narrative / union organizing novel you wish every kid had the chance to read. Good news. Now they can.
Review of the Day: The Prince of Steel Pier by Stacy Nockowitz
Today I’m talking about a book with gangsters, Monopoly, a misunderstood hero, young love, boardwalks, and creaming someone in the face with a pack of coins.
Review of the Day: Amber and Clay by Laura Amy Schlitz, ill. Julia Iredale
This is a book positioned to impress, that then sneaks over and steals your heart. Hermes would be proud.
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31 Days, 31 Lists: Great Middle Grade Novels of 2020
The penultimate list. Maybe, with lists like this one, we can all try to end 2020 on a slightly less terrible note.
Review of the Day: Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte
May casual cruelties fall by the wayside in the presence of such books as this ione. May our children find it and love it and read it repeatedly. And may we see more such books from Ann Clare LeZotte and authors like her, that put work and care into the very folds of their stories.
Review of the Day: Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
Hand this to the kid that yearns for that freedom. For wide-open spaces and mysterious figures hiding in the shadows and snot nosed brothers and lots and lots of puppies. Hand it to someone who needs their own mountain. Even if it’s just a literary one.
Review of the Day: Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis
There are kids out there that like comics and like realism and have long been starved for illustrated stories of the past. Hand them this book, and then hand it to all the science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts too, because this is a book for everyone. Impossible to forget, undeniable in its delights.
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