April: Fiction Pick This is the second book in a trilogy by Katherine Arden, following The Bear and the Nightingale, and before Winter of the Witch. The story takes place in medieval Russia, where Christianity is replacing the earlier beliefs.…
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YA/J NONFIC: Slickety Quick: Poems About Sharks by Skila Brown
April: YA/J NonFiction Pick This book has descriptive poems about many different shark species, and adds a fun fact about each also. Robin
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YA FIC: The Poet X by Elizabeth Avecedo
April: Young Adult Fiction Pick Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has…
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J FIC: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
April: Juvenile Fiction Pick “With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . . The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. ’Cuz tonight I’m delivering,” raps twelve-year-old Josh Bell. Thanks to their dad, he…
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J FIC: Gone Fishing by Tamera Will Wissinger
April: Juvenile Fiction Pick This lovely novel in verse is great for the whole family and it squeezes in lots of great information on types of poems and poetic devices. Told from three points of view, Sam, Lucy and Dad…
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