Rita Murphy, . . Dell/Laurel-Leaf, $4.99 (, $4.99 ISBN p) ISBN 978-0-440-22837-0
In a starred review, PW
called this first novel about a girl approaching her 16th birthday and her initiation into solo flying (literally) "an auspicious debut. The author seamlessly links the metaphor of flying with Georgia's rite of passage." Ages 12-up. (Apr.)
As in her debut novel, Night Flying, Murphy connects earth and sky in a novel laced with lyricism and magic. On an August evening during the Perseid meteor Continue reading »
When a lumber company threatens to cut down the Old People, a row of sacred white pines, the 14-year-old narrator discovers she has magical powers. In a starred review, Continue reading »
One could say that prior to the publication of her first YA novel, Night Flying (Delacorte), Rita Murphy was a closeted writer. "I actually wrote the first draft of Night Flying Continue reading »
The Soldier’s Friend: Walt Whitman’s Extraordinary Service in the American Civil War
Gary Golio
This moving picture book biography from Golio and Lewis explores the work that poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) took on during the U.S. Civil War. In New York City, where he Continue reading »
Reynolds (Long Way Down) astounds in a sweetly hilarious story of two Black teens preparing to take a huge first step in their relationship. Twenty-four seconds before this Continue reading »
The cadenced text of this deliberately paced poem by U.S. poet laureate Limón, making her children’s book debut, will be etched on Europa Clipper, a spacecraft launching in Continue reading »
After separate medical emergencies result in teens Perley, a human, and Amadine, a recently turned vampire, missing the first few weeks of school, they find themselves thrown Continue reading »