Jenny Andrus

Applegate, Katherine. Doggo and Pupper Search for Cozy. Charlie Adler, Illus. Doggo and Pupper. Feiwel & Friends, 03/2023. 96pp. Reader. Trade $9.99. 978-1-250-62102-3. GRADES Kindergarten–2. HIGH ADDITIONAL. In the third and final installment of the Doggo and Pupper series, the canine duo try to help their friend Cat [continue reading]

Viva, Frank. Gotta Go! Frank Viva, Illus. Toon, 9/2023. 32pp. Picture Book. Trade $18.99. 978-1-6626-6507-3. GRADES Preschool–1. HIGH ADDITIONAL.          How do you hold it when you gotta go? Owen, a bald boy with light brown skin, hilariously learns (and shows off) various gotta go dances [continue reading]

Sudyka, Diana. Little Land. Diana Sudyka, Illus. Little, Brown, 04/2023. [48]pp. Picture Book. Trade $18.99. 978-0-3163-0176-3. GRADES Preschool–1. HIGH ADDITIONAL.            A young child explores the ecological transformations of a tiny piece of land from millions of years ago, a world where dinosaurs and prehistoric animals [continue reading]

Markle, Sandra. Wild Inventions: Ideas Inspired by Animals. Lerner/Millbrook, 10/2023. 48pp. Nonfiction. PLB $33.32. 978-1-7284-6795-5. GRADES 4–8. HIGH ADDITIONAL.         Animals have been found to do some pretty interesting, or perhaps just odd, things. Markle’s hook is that she ties these animal oddities to human inventions [continue reading]

Khalil, Aya. Great Banned-Books Bake Sale, The. Anait Semirdzhyan, Illus. Tilbury House, 08/2023. [32]pp. Picture Book. Trade $18.95. 978-0-88448-967-2. GRADES Kindergarten–3. ADDITIONAL. A powerful story based on current national headlines, this story continues The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story (2020), with Kanzi’s elementary school class eagerly visiting [continue reading]

Matson, Morgan. Firefly Summer, The. Simon & Schuster, 05/2023. 400pp. Fiction. Trade $18.99. 978-1-5344-9335-3. GRADES 4–7. HIGH ADDITIONAL.          When Ryanna visits a summer camp once run by her grandparents, the seventh grader meets a group of previously unknown relatives and learns more about her mother, [continue reading]

Burgess, Tamika. Sincerely Sicily. Harper/Collins, 01/2023. 304pp. Fiction. Trade $17.99. 978-0-0631-5960-0. GRADES 4–7. ADDITIONAL.          Sicily longs to go to the same middle school as her squad of friends but instead must attend a school closer to home. She is hurt and embarrassed when new classmates [continue reading]

Slater, Dashka. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/2023. 496pp. Nonfiction. Trade $20.99. 978-0-374-31434-7. GRADES 6–12. OUTSTANDING. Slater presents an account of the racist Instagram posts targeting Black [continue reading]