29 Not-To-Miss Books by Gayle Forman, Meg Medina, Jasmine Warga, and More | Web Starred Reviews, October 2024

by SLJ Reviews
Oct 31, 2024 | Filed in News & Features

October’s starred reviews include a nonfiction World War II story from George Takei and a newly illustrated poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.

Picture Books

ABTAHI, Olivia. The Interpreter. illus. by Monica Arnaldo. Penguin/Kokila.

FERRY, Beth. Roar for Reading. illus. by Andrew Joyner. S. & S.

LONDON, Alex. Still Life. illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky. Greenwillow.

MEDINA, Meg. No más señora Mimí. tr. from by Eida Del Risco.
––––. No More Señora Mimí. ea vol: illus. by Brittany Cicchese. Candlewick.

SEALES, Stephanie. My Daddy Is a Cowboy. illus. by C.G. Esperanza. Abrams.

WILSON, Rachel Michelle. How to Pee Your Pants: The Right Way. Feiwel & Friends.

 

Middle Grade

ALKAF, Hanna. Tales from Cabin 23: Night of the Living Head. HarperCollins.

BRASHARES, Ann & Ben Brashares. Westfallen. S. & S.

FIPPS, Lisa. And Then, Boom! Penguin/Nancy Paulsen.

FORMAN, Gayle. Not Nothing. S & S/Aladdin.

HOOD, Susan. Lifeboat 5. S. & S.

JUCKES, Sarah Ann. The Hunt for the Nightingale. illus. by Sharon King-Chai. Kane Miller.

KHAN, Hiba Noor. Safiyyah’s War. HarperCollins.

LYNCH, Chris. Walkin’ the Dog. S. & S.

NESS, Patrick. Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody. illus. by Tim Miller. Candlewick/Walker. OH, Ellen, ed. On the Block: Stories of Home. Crown.

ROGERS, Alexandria. Spellbound Solstice. Little, Brown.

WARGA, Jasmine. A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall. HarperCollins.

 

YA

MOORE, C.G. Trigger. Little Island.

STAFFORD, Rebecca. Rabbit & Juliet. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.

VIDAL, Juan. A Second Chance on Earth. Holiday House.

 

Nonfiction Elementary

LUDIKIS, Lydia. Dancing through Space: Dr. Mae Jemison Soars to New Heights. illus. by Sawyer Cloud. Albert Whitman.

MACMILLAN, Kathy & Manuela Bernardi. She Spoke Too: 14 More Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World. illus. by Becky Thorns. Familius.

TAKEI, George. My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story. illus. by Michelle Lee. Crown.

 

Nonfiction Middle to High School

BASCOMB, Neal. The Salt Thief: Gandhi’s Heroic March to Freedom. illus. by Mithil Thaker. Scholastic Focus.

MARRIN, Albert. When Forests Burn: The Story of Wildfire in America. Knopf.

MCKINNEY, Lora-Ellen. All About Grief. illus. by Sophia Touliatou. Beaming Bks.

VLEET, Carmella Van. Frozen in Time: What Ice Cores Can Tell Us About Climate Change. Holiday House.

 

Poetry

LIMÓN, Ada. And, Too, the Fox. illus. by Gaby D’Alessandro. Lerner/Carolrhoda.

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