Book Review
A Taste of the World
Rowena Scherer’s family cookbook, "A Taste of the World", collects accessible recipes, interesting facts, and easy-to-follow instructions for colorful, interactive cooking experiences. An organic outcropping of the eat2explore...
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Chasing Stars
A poignant story of sisterhood and coming-of-age, Meg Gaertner’s novel "Chasing Stars" follows changes to a seventh grader’s life that leave her floundering and searching for stable ground. Libby and her sister Erica were born just...
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TIP's Magical Journey
In the lesson-filled children’s novel TIP’s Magical Journey, a boy meets an interesting variety of people who expand his perception of the world. In Barbara Mishkin’s novel TIP’s Magical Journey, an eight-and-a-half-year-old boy...
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Asha and Baz Meet Elizebeth Friedman
"Asha and Baz Meet Elizebeth Friedman" is an intriguing novel that centers an underlauded woman pioneer in the sciences. In Caroline Fernandez’s adventure novel "Asha and Baz Meet Elizebeth Friedman", best friends travel through time...
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Do You Remember Being Born?
In Sean Michaels’s prescient and fascinating novel "Do You Remember Being Born?", a famous poet is asked to co-write a poem with an AI. At seventy-five years old, Marian—who wears capes, a tricorn hat, and bikinis—is...
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Sherlock Bones and the Mystery of the Vanishing Magician
In Tim Collins’s fun puzzle quest novel "Sherlock Bones and the Mystery of the Vanishing Magician", a detective dog and his Watsonesque cat companion are embroiled in an epic caper involving hypnosis, a passel of animals, and a series...
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Gemja
In the science fiction universe of "Gemja", worlds of unexpected wonder and danger abound. In K. M. Messina’s imaginative interplanetary adventure novel "Gemja", a witch’s personal trajectory is changed on an unwanted planet....
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Serengotti
Set in rural Australia, Eugen Bacon’s novel "Serengotti" follows a programmer who travels to an isolated African migrant community where little is as it seems. The novel begins with Ch’anzu having a breakdown—over a drowning...