Reviews by Author

Abdel-Fattah, Randa
Does My Head Look Big in This?


Adedjouma, Davida (editor)
The Palm of My Heart: Poems by African American Children

Adornetto, Alexandra
Halo

Aguirre, Jorge
Giants Beware!

Akaltun, Eda
Marcel

Altebrando, Tara
The Battle of Darcy Lane

Alexander, Kwame
Booked

Anastasiu, Heather
Girl Last Seen

Anderson, Laurie Halse
Catalyst
The Impossible Knife of Memory 

Andreau, Maria E.
The Secret Side of Empty

Angleberger, Tom
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

Anthony, Steve
Please, Mr. Panda

Appelhans, Lenore
Level 2
Chasing Before

Applegate, Katherine
The One and Only Ivan

Asher, Jay
The Future of Us

Atlas, Galit
Emotional Inheritance

Aydin, Andrew
Run: Book One

Ayers, William
To Teach, the Journey in Comics

Baldacchino, Christine
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress

Bard, Elizabeth
Lunch in Paris

Barnett, Mac
Battle Bunny
Chloe and the Lion
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

Baskin, Nora Raleigh
Nine, Ten

Bass, Jennifer Vogel
Edible Colors

Baty, Chris
No Plot? No Problem!

Bauermeister, Erica
Joy for Beginners
The School of Essential Ingredients 

Beaty, Daniel
Knock Knock

Becker, Aaron
Journey
Return

Beckloff, Mark
Amazing Gracie

Behrens, Rebecca
When Audrey Met Alice

Bell, Cece
El Deafo

Berens, Charlie

Bildner, Phil
The Soccer Fence
Martina & Chrissie

Binford, Warren
Hear My Voice

Bingham, Kelly
Z is for Moose

Bourdain, Anthony
Medium Raw

Bardley, Kimberly Brubaker
The War That Saved My Life

Brande, Robin
Fat Cat

Brannen, Sarah S.
Madame Martine

Bray, Libba
Beauty Queens
Going Bovine
The Diviners

Brown, Anne Greenwood
Girl Last Seen

Bullen, Alexandra
Wish

Burleigh, Robert
The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn

Canby, Kelly
All the Lost Things

Carey, Anna
Blackbird

Carter, Shawn (Jay-Z)
Decoded

Cass, Kiera
The Selection

Celenza, Anna Harwell
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
Beethoven's Heroic Symphony

Child, Julia
My Life in France

Clanton, Ben
Rex Wrecks It

Clinch, Jon
Finn

Codell, Esme Raji
Educating Esme
Sahara Special

Cohn, Rachel
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Collier, Bryan
Uptown

Collins, Suzanne
Catching Fire
Mockingjay

Conaghan, Brian
The Bombs That Brought Us Together

Condie, Ally
Matched

Connor, Leslie
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

Copeland, Misty
Firebird

Costanza, Stephen
Mozart Finds a Melody

Creech, Sharon
The Boy on the Porch

Crutcher, Chris
Whale Talk
Period 8

Cullen, Dave
Columbine

Curtis, Christopher Paul
The Mighty Miss Malone

Dant, Traci
Some Kind of Love: A Family Reunion in Poems

Dashner, James
The Maze Runner

de la Peña, Matt
Last Stop on Market Street

DeLaurentiis, Giada
Recipe for Adventure: Paris!

Derek the Ghost
Scary School

DeStefano, Lauren
Wither
Fever

Devine, Eric
Press Play

Diaz, Junot
Islandborn

DiCamillo, Kate
Flora & Ulysses

Donnelly, Jennifer
Revolution

Drummond, Ree
The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels

Dye, Dan
Amazing Gracie

Eggers, Dave
This Bridge Will Not Be Gray

Ellen, Laura
Blind Spot

Emerson, Kevin
Carlos is Gonna Get It
The Fellowship for Alien Detection

Engle, Margarita
Drum Dream Girl

Fama, Elizabeth
Monstrous Beauty

Fan, Terry & Eric
The Night Gardener

Federle, Tim
Better Nate Than Ever
The Great American Whatever

Flaherty, Mike
Whose Story Is This, Anyway?

Fleischman, Paul
Seedfolks

Fleischman, Sid
The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West

Flinn, Alex
Beastly

Flinn, Kathleen
The Sharper Your Knife the Less You Cry
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School
Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good

Florence, Debbi Michiko
Niki Nakayama: A Chef's Tale in 13 Bites

Fogliano, Julie
When Green Becomes Tomatoes

Forman, Gayle
Where She Went
Just One Day
I Was Here

Fradin, Dennis and Judith
The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood up to Slavery

Friedman, Thomas
Hot, Flat, and Crowded

Friend, Natasha
Perfect

Funk, Josh
Lady pancake & Sir French Toast
No One Leaves the Castle

Hemphill, Stephanie
Sisters of Glass

Hendrix, Grady
Horrorstör

Hiaasen, Carl
Chomp

Higham, John
360 Degrees Longitude

Holland, Mina
The World on a Plate

Holland, Sarah Stewart
I Think You're Wong (But I'm listening)

Holm, Jennifer L.
Turtle in Paradise
Sunny Side Up

Hopkins, Ellen
Burned

House, Silas
Same Sun Here

Idle, Molly
Tea Rex

Jackson, Ellen
Beastly Babies

Jackson, Joshilyn
Backseat Saints

Jenkins, Emily
A Fine Dessert

Jenkins, Steve
The Animal Book

Jennewein, Lenore and Daniel
Chick-O-Saurus Rex

Jennings, Patrick
Guinea Dog

Jiang, Ji-Li
Red Kite, Blue Kite

Johnson, Maureen
13 Little Blue Envelopes
The Last Little Blue Envelope

Jones, Carrie
Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories

Juby, Susan
The Truth Commission

Kay, Sarah
No Matter the Wreckage

Kelly, Clinton
Freakin' Fabulous on a Budget

Kent, Hannah
Burial Rites

Kephart, Beth
Going Over

Kincaid, S.J.
Insignia

King, A.S.
Please Ignore Vera Dietz
Reality Boy

Kirby, Jessi
Moonglass

Kittle, Penny
Book Love

Klam, Julie
You Had Me at Woof

Kleon, Austin
Newspaper Blackout

Klostermann, Penny Parker
A Cooked-Up Fairy Tale

Knisley, Lucy
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
One post: French Milk, An Age of License, and Displacement

Knowles, Jo
See You at Harry's

Kolb, Andrew
Edmund Unravels

Korman, Gordon
Son of the Mob

Kraegel, Kenneth
Green Pants

Kress, Adrienne
The Explorers: The Door in the Alley

Lamana, Julie T. 
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere

Larochelle, David
This is NOT a Cat!

Latham, Irene
Fresh Delicious

Lawson, Jenny
Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Lester, Mike
A is for Salad

Levin, Larry
Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love

Levine, Gail Carson
Forgive Me, I Meant To Do It: False Apology Poems

Levithan, David
Dash and Lily's Book of Dares
Will Grayson, Will Grayson 
Every Day 
Hold Me Closer

Lewis, John
Run: Book One

Lin, Grace
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Lloyd, Natalie
The Key to Extraordinary

MacEachern, Diane
Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World

Machado, Ana Maria
What a Party!

Mackintosh, David
The Frank Show

Mackler, Carolyn
The Future of Us

Magoon, Kekla
How It Went Down
X: A Novel

Mali, Taylor
What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

Mandelski, Christina
The Sweetest Thing

Martinez, Jessica
Virtuosity

McAnulty, Stacy
Beautiful

McCafferty, Megan
Bumped

McGackin, Brian
Broetry

McGarry, Katie
Pushing the Limits

Michalak, Jamie
Niki Nakayama: A Chef's Tale in 13 Bites

Michele, Lea
Brunette Ambition

Miller, Donalyn
The Book Whisperer

Miller, Ryan
How to Feed Your Parents

Montalvan, Luis Carlos
Tuesday Tucks Me In

Mora, Oge
Saturday

Morales, Yuyi
Viva Frida

Murdock, Catherine Gilbert
Dairy Queen

Muth, Jon J.
Zen Ties

Myers, Walter Dean
Riot

Myracle, Lauren
Shine

Nelson, Kadir
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans

Ness, Patrick
A Monster Calls
The Knife of Never Letting Go

Newkirk, Thomas
Holding onto Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones

Nimmo, Jenny
The Beasties

Nobleman, Marc Tyler
Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman

Noel, Alyson
Radiance
Shimmer
Dreamland 

Nye, Naomi Shihab
The Turtle of Oman

O'Leary, Sara
This is Sadie

Obama, Michelle
American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America

Oliver, Lauren
Delirium
Pandemonium 
Requiem
Liesl and Po

Oppel, Kenneth
Half Brother
This Dark Endeavor

Orgill, Roxanne
Jazz Day

Oseman, Alice
Solitaire

Otoshi, Kathryn
One

Pace, Alison
Pug Hill
A Pug's Tale
You Tell Your Dog First

Palacio, RJ
Wonder

Patrick, Cat
Forgotten

Pearle, Ida
The Moon is Going to Addy's House

Pearson, Mary E.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Perdomo, Willie
Visiting Langston

Perisco, Zoe:
Georgia's Terrific, Colorific Experiment

Perkins, Mitali
Bamboo People
Monsoon Summer

Perkins, Stephanie
Anna and the French Kiss
Lola and the boy Next Door

Pham, Thien
Family Style: Memoires of an American from Vietnam

Pink, Daniel H.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Pizzoli, Greg
Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

Plum, Amy
Die for Me
After the End

Polisner, Gae
The Memory of Things

Pollan, Michael
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Preller, James
A Pirate's Guide to First Grade

Price, Lissa
Starters

Raschka, Chris
The Cosmobiography of Sun Ra

Rawl, Paige
Positive

Rayner, Catherine
Augustus and His Smile

Revis, Beth
Across the Universe

Rex, Adam
The True Meaning of Smekday
Chloe and the Lion
Nothing Rhymes with Orange

Reynolds, Jason
My Name is Jason. Mine Too. Our Story. Our Way.
When I Was the Greatest
The Boy in the Black Suit
Long Way Down

Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Towers Falling

Richards, Keith
Gus and Me

Riggle, Kristina
The Life You've Imagined

Riggs, Ransom
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Hollow City

Rippon, Adam
Beautiful on the Outside

Rockliff, Mara
Chik Chak Shabbat

Roman, Dave
Teen Boat!

Rosado, Rafael
Giants Beware!

Rosenstock, Barb
The Noisy Paint Box

Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
Chopsticks

Roth, Veronica
Divergent

Rubin, Gretchen
The Happiness Project

Ruby, Laura
Bone Gap

Rusch, Elizabeth
The Music of Life

Ryan, Pam Muñoz
Echo

Rylander, Chris
The Fourth Stall

Saenz, Benjamin Alire
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Samuelsson, Marcus
Yes, Chef

Sanders, Ella Frances
Lost in Translation

Santat, Dan
The Adventures of Beekle
Are We There Yet? 
A First Time for Everything

Sayre, April Pulley
Rah, Rah, Radishes: A Vegetable Chant

Scarbrough, Mark
Real Food Has Curves

Schreiber, Joe
Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

Scieszka, Jon
Battle Bunny

Seo, Kaila Eunhye
Fred

Sepetys, Ruta
Between Shades of Gray
Out of the Easy
Salt to the Sea

Shabazz, Ilyasah
X: A Novel

Shange, Ntozake
Ellington Was Not a Street

Shapiro, J.H. 
Magic Trash

Shaw, Beth Kobliner and Jacob
Jacob's Eye Patch

Sheffield, Rob
Love is a Mix Tape

Sheinkin, Steve
Bomb: The Race to Build - And Steal - The World's Most Dangerous Weapon

Shusterman, Neal
The Schwa was Here
Challenger Deep

Shyba, Jessica
Naptime with Theo & Beau

Siegel, Mark & Alexis
5 Worlds: The Sand Warrior

Silvers, Beth
I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening)

Sis, Peter
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Slade, Suzanne
The Music in George's Head

Sloan, Holly Goldberg
Counting By 7s

Small, David
Stitches

Smith, Andrew
Stand Off
The Size of the Truth

Smith, Eric
The Geek's Guide to Dating

Smith, Lane
It's a Book

Snyder, Laurel
Orphan Island

Stauffacher, Sue
Bessie Smith and the Night Riders

Stead, Rebecca
Goodbye Stranger

Stein, Garth
Racing in the Rain

Steves, Rick
Travel as a Political Act

Stiefvater, Maggie
Forever
Linger

Stinson, Kathy
The Man with the Violin

Stockett, Kathryn
The Help

Sullivan, Mary
Treat

Tan, Amy Rebecca
A Kind of Paradise

Tan, Shaun
Eric
Rules of Summer

Taylor, Laini
Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Telgemeier, Raina
Smile
Guts

Tregay, Sarah
Love and Leftovers

Trinklein, Michael J.
Lost States

Tunstall, Tricia
Note by Note: A Celebration of the Piano Lesson

Urban, Linda
A Crooked Kind of Perfect

Ursu, Anne
Breadcrumbs
The Real Boy
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy

Valente, Catherynne M.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making  

Van Diepen, Allison
Light of Day


Van Draanen, Wendelin
The Running Dream

Van Ness, Jonathan
Over the Top

Varon, Sara
Bake Sale

Vaswani, Neela
Same Sun Here

Verde, Susan
My Kicks: A Sneaker Story!

Vernick, Audrey
Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?
Teach Your Buffalo to Play Drums
So You Want to Be a Rock Star
Brothers at Bat
Bogart and Vinnie 
Edgar's Second Word

Von Bremzen, Anya
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing

Walker, Melissa
Small Town Sinners

Wealer, Sara Bennett
Rival

Weatherford, Carole Boston
Sugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood

Weeks, Sarah
Pie

Wein, Elizabeth
Rose Under Fire

Weinstein, Bruce
Real Food Has Curves

Whaley, John Corey
Noggin
Highly Illogical Behavior

Whitney, Daisy
The Mockingbirds
When You Were Here

Williamson, Kate T.
A Year in Japan

Wilson, Kip