Review: The Unwanted
I hide from the news. I find it unpleasant and for the most part, close my eyes, cover my ears, and think that ignorance is bliss. It doesn’t always work, because I don’t live in a total cocoon. My...
View ArticleReview: They Called Us Enemy
For the last few years, the 6th grade in my school has been studying a unit on the Japanese Internment using the short story “The Bracelet” and an excerpt from Journey to Topaz. They study Executive...
View ArticleIn the Shadow of the Fallen Towers | Review
In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 AttacksBy Don BrownHoughton Mifflin, August 2021Grades 7 up When I was growing up, the...
View ArticleSuzanne – The Jazz Age Goddess of Tennis | Preview
Avery Hill is a small publisher that is based in the UK and has an eye for good comics: They published Tillie Walden’s debut graphic novel, The End of Summer, as well as the two that followed. Most of...
View ArticleCall Me Bill | Preview
Today we have a very special preview for you: A selection from Call Me Bill, by Lynette Richards, out this week from the Canadian publisher Conundrum Press. This slim graphic novel tells the true...
View ArticleReview| Change the Game: A Graphic Novel
Even if you don’t follow football, you have likely heard of Colin Kaepernick. During the 2016 season Kaepernick, then a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, chose to kneel during the National...
View ArticleReview: Bomb
Bomb: The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weaponby Steve Sheinkin and Nick BertozziRoaring Book Press, January 2023 $24.99 (hc)Grades 5 and up While I only read bits of the original...
View ArticleReview: A Visit to Moscow
Growing up, the plight of the Soviet Jew was at the forefront of my Jewish education. Natan Sharansky was likely the most notable refusenik; the “face” of the Soviet Jew who was denied the right to...
View ArticleReview: Victory! Stand!
Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for JusticeBy Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud AnyabwileNorton Young Readers, September 2022Grades 5-8 When the 1968 Olympics took place in Mexico City, it was...
View ArticleExclusive: ‘Magical History Tour’ Digs Dinosaurs | News
Today we have an exclusive that’s not really a surprise: Vol. 15 of the Papercutz series Magical History Tour. It’s cool, though, because this volume is about dinosaurs! As in the other volumes,...
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