Book Review List

These reviews are all completed for my grad course, INFO 5423. This running list will link you to any book reviewed for this purpose!

Pre-K- 6th Grade

Bluebonnet Award - The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America by Jaime Hernandez
Texas 2x2- Big by Vashti Harrison (eBook)
Coretta Scott King winner- New Kid by Jerry Craft (eBook)
Pura Belpre winner - Child of the Flower-Song People: Liz Jimenez, Daughter of the Nahua by Gloria Amescua
Newbery Medal book- The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera (eBook)
Graphic novel - Baby-Sitters Little Sister: Karen’s Roller Skates graphic novel by Katy Farina, based on a novel by Ann M. Martin
Informational or biography- The Extraordinary Life of Rosa Parks by Dr. Sheila Kanani
Fantasy - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Disability or Differences: Boy by Phil Cummings
Poetry or Novel in Verse-  Red, White and Whole by Rajni LaRocca

7th-12th grade level
Romance- Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Novel in Verse - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (audiobook)
Sci-Fi - Iron Widow  by Xiran Jay Zhao (audiobook)
Printz winner or Printz Honor book- All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Manga volume - Spy X Family by Tatsuya Endo

 

Resources 

Amescua, G. (2021). Child of the flower-song people: Luz Jimenez, Daughter of the Nahua. (D. Tonatiuh, Illus.). Harry N. Abrams.  

Barnhill, K. (2016). The girl who drank the moon. Algonquin Young Readers.

Craft, J. (2020). New Kid [eBook edition]. Quill Tree Books. 

Cummings, P. (2017). Boy (S. Devries, Illus.). Kane Miller.

Endo, T. (2024). Spy x family (11), (T. Endo, Illus.). VIZ Media LLC.

Farina, K. (2020). Karen's roller skates. Baby-sitter's little sister, (2). Graphix. 

Harrison, V. ( 2023). Big (V. Harrison, Illus.) [eBook edition]. Little Brown Books for Young Readers.  

Hernandez, J. (2018). The dragon slayer: Folktales from Latin America (J. Hernandez, Illus.). TOON Books. 

Higuera, D. B., (2021). The last cuentista [eBook edition]. Levine Querido.

Kanani, S. (2019). The extraordinary life of Rosa Parks (N. Lawson, Illus). Kane Miller.

Reynolds, J. ( 2017). Long way down (J. Reynolds, Narr.) [Audiobook]. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Ross, R., (2023). Divine rivals.Wednesday Books.

Tahir, S., (2022). All my rage. Razorbill.

Zhao, X. J. (2021). Iron widow (R. Fu, Narr.) [Audiobook]. Penguin Teen Canada.