23 Stellar Offerings, Including New Books From Carole Boston Weatherford and Sophie Blackall | Starred Reviews, August 2025
This month brings starred titles in gaming books, professional reading, and more.
Family Feast! (Weatherford) © by Frank Morrison. |
Picture Books
BLACKALL, Sophie. If We Were Dogs. Little, Brown.
FINE, Bex Tobin. Floor It! illus. by Federico Fabiani. Random.
HARE, John. Field Trip to Dinosaur Valley. Holiday House/Margaret Ferguson.
HENN, Sophy. I Hate Everything! S.& S./Beach Lane.
RIM, Sujean. My Dog Smudge. Atheneum/Caitlin Dlouhy.
SCANLON, Liz Garton & Audrey Vernick. The Family Tree. illus. by Fiona Lee. S. & S./Beach Lane.
TEBO, Mary. Sparrow. illus. by E.B. Lewis. Astra.
WALLACE, Gwendolyn. Dancing with Water. illus. by Tonya Engel. Penguin/Kokila.
WEATHERFORD, Carole Boston. Family Feast! illus. by Frank Morrison. Crown.
Middle Grade
Grehan, Meg. The Brightest Star. Little Island.
Stevenson, ND. Scarlet Morning. HarperCollins/Quill Tree.
YA
Sutherland, Joel A. The Whisperings. Tundra.
Graphic Novels
Glendining, Bex. On Starlit Shores. Abrams/Fanfare.
Leon, Pablo. Silenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide. HarperAlley.
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The Spy in the Museum: How Rose Valland Saved Art from the Nazis (McGuire) © by Erin McGuire |
Nonfiction
BARRETTA, Gene. The Apprenticeship of Andrew Wyeth: Painting a Family Legacy. Little, Brown/Christy Ottaviano.
Carnagey, Melissa Pintor. Growing into You! An Inclusive, Shame-Busting, Get-Real Guide to Your Changing Body and Mind. illus. by Brianna Gilmartin. Quirk.
Guojing. The House That Floated. Random House Studio.
MCGUIRE, Erin. The Spy in the Museum: How Rose Valland Saved Art from the Nazis. S. & S./Beach Lane.
Santana, Raymond. Pushing Hope: An Illustrated Memoir of Survival. illus. by Keith Henry Brown.Astra/Calkins Creek.
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Root: The Roleplaying Game Core Book ©2022 Magpie |
Gaming
Root: The Roleplaying Game Core Book. Magpie Games.
Professional Reading
García, Marilisa Jiménez & Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez, eds. Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature: A Critical Reader. SUNY Pr.
Rodari, Gianni. The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories. tr. from Italian by Jack Zipes. illus. by Matthew Forsythe. Enchanted Lion.
Struckmeyer, Amanda Moss. Inspiring Teens, Tweens, and Families to Make a Difference in the World: Programming to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals. ALA Eds.
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