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Seminar on Literature for Youth
BOOK REVIEW BLOG
Whitney Nesmith


Librarian on the Roof!
Librarian on the Roof! by M.G. King. Published by Albert Whitman & Company. Published on September 1, 2010. Following the true story of a...


The Big Book of Gross Stuff
The Big Book of Gross Stuff by Bart King. Published by Gibbs Smith on March 1, 2010. "No one ever says so, but gross stuff is sort of...


The Emperor's Egg: Read and Wonder
The Emperor's Egg: Read and Wonder by Martin Jenkins. Published by Candlewick on August 26, 2002. Some nonfiction books are more like a...


Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change
Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change by Michelle Cook. Published by Bloomsbury USA Childrens...


The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greaters Abolitionist by Margarita Engle. Published by HMH Books for Young Readers on September 15, 2015....


Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle. Published by HMH Books for Young Readers on March 31, 2015....


The Noisy Paint Box
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kadinsky's Abstract Art by Barb Rosenstock. Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers on...


Gravity Falls: Journal #3
Gravity Falls: Journal #3 by Alex Hirsch & Rob Renzetti, published by Disney Press on July 26, 2016, age range 8-12 years. Since I'm a...


A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning
While this book is almost twenty years old now, it and the rest of the series are still popular among children, young adults, and people...


Dragons Love Tacos
This children's book is framed as a story of the narrator teaching a child how to prepare a taco meal for his dragon friends, and it's...
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