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Sara Pennypacker’s ‘Meet the Dullards,’ and More [08 May 2015|03:07pm]
In four new picture books, a dog, a skunk, an elephant and an extremely dull family subvert readerly suppositions.







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‘I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives’ [08 May 2015|03:08pm]
A correspondence between an American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe transforms them both in this young adult memoir.







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‘Ben Draws Trouble,’ ‘How to Draw a Dragon’ and ‘My Pen’ [08 May 2015|03:09pm]
Three books celebrate the pleasures of drawing — bicycles, boats, classmates, dragons: pretty much anything.







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‘Black Dove White Raven,’ by Elizabeth Wein [08 May 2015|03:09pm]
Faced with discrimination, a pilot and her children move to Ethiopia on the eve of Mussolini’s invasion.







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‘Bone Gap,’ by Laura Ruby [08 May 2015|03:10pm]
The myth of Demeter and Persephone colors a young adult novel of abduction and captivity in small-town America.







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‘Lost in the Sun,’ by Lisa Graff [08 May 2015|03:10pm]
In this middle-grade novel, a boy must break free from a cycle of guilt and recrimination after an accidental death.







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Gordon Korman’s ‘Masterminds,’ and More [08 May 2015|03:10pm]
Four new series of speculative fiction, filled with perilous journeys, long-held secrets and bands of tenacious children and teenagers.







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Inside the List [08 May 2015|03:11pm]
Jane Smiley, whose novel “Early Warning” is No. 10 on the hardcover fiction list, said of the creative life: “What we do as writers is voluntary, so don’t complain.”







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‘An Ember in the Ashes,’ by Sabaa Tahir [08 May 2015|03:11pm]
When a cruel regime imprisons her brother, a young woman goes undercover in a bid to free him.







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‘Listen, Slowly,’ by Thanhha Lai [08 May 2015|03:11pm]
A trip to Vietnam brings a girl in touch with her family history in this middle-grade novel.







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‘Ms. Rapscott’s Girls’ and ‘The Girl With the Glass Bird’ [08 May 2015|03:11pm]
Children learn much more than the three R’s at the unconventional institutions in these novels.







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Editors’ Choice [08 May 2015|03:29pm]
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.







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Paperback Row [08 May 2015|03:51pm]
Paperback books of particular interest.







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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ [08 May 2015|06:35pm]
This week, Tom Perrotta discusses “A God in Ruins,” and Ruth Franklin talks about Shirley Jackson.







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