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Reviewd by Elaine Marzal, 10+
Linus Tuttle, who is 12, wants to change, to become someone who is“totally calm instead of panicky” when scary stuff happens, and to leave his fearfulness and panic attacks behind. He has plenty of opportunities to reinvent himself, with the help of the feared poisonous black mamba snake, when his family moves to Monrovia, Liberia. The time is the early ‘80’s, and Dad has a new job working at the American Embassy, uprooting the family into a totally new life. Linus does change day by day throughout the book... Read More...

Teen Reviewer Ashley Reid
NaTasha has lived her entire life in quiet suburban New Jersey, but when an opportunity to spend the summer in Harlem, New York with her Grandmother arises NaTasha jumps at the chance.
NaTasha’s Grandmother is worried that she is loosing touch with her roots and plans for her to volunteer at Amber’s place a crisis center in the Bronx where NaTasha’s own mother worked when she was her age.
Immediately NaTasha notices the differences between herself and the girls at the center. She has nothing in common with them and doesn’t bother trying to get through... Read More...

The author continues the brilliance she showed in her debut YA novel 'A Northern Light' with this follow-up about a troubled girl who travels to Paris after a family tragedy and becomes enmeshed in a mystery concerning the heart of the young boy prince, Louis-Charles, son of Marie Antoinette, victim of the French Revolution. Merging music, history, tragedy, grief and healing, this is an engrossing, beautifully written book. Ages 14 & up. Read More Reviews...

2010 Caldecott Medal Winner: Best Picture Book
The Lion & the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

Red Sings From Treetops: A Year in Colors
by Joyce Sidman

2010 Newbery Award Winner: Best Contribution to Children's Literature

2010 Newbery Honor Winners
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
by Rodman Philbrick

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2010 Pura Belpre Award
Given to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator who best celebrates the Latino cultural experience

2010 Pura Belpre Illustration Award

Book Fiesta! Celebrate Children's Day/Book Day: Celebremos El dia de los niños/El dia de los libros
by Pat Mora

2010 Coretta Scott King Author Award
Given to an African American author for best book

Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

2010 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

by Langston Hughes
illustrated by Charles R. Smith Jr.

Michael L. Printz Award
Given for excellence in literature written for young adults

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