Starred YA Books: Movers and Shakers July/August
I’ve been keeping track of the starred reviews for YA books published this year in the big six reviewing publications — The Horn Book, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. Some movers and shakers within the last two months are:
Six Stars
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion)
Horn Book, PW, SLJ, Booklist, Kirkus, Bulletin
Five Stars
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (Random House)
Horn Book, PW, SLJ, Booklist, Kirkus
Four Stars
The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan (Knopf)
Horn Book, PW, Booklist, Kirkus
Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead (Wendy Lamb Books)
Horn Book, PW, SLJ, Kirkus
Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years by Linda Barrett Osborne (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
PW, SLJ, Booklist, Kirkus
Three Stars
A Certain October by Angela Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
Horn Book, SLJ, Kirkus
A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix (HarperCollins)
Horn Book, SLJ, Kirkus
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure by Jim Murphy and Alison Blank (Clarion)
SLJ, Booklist, Kirkus
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher (Little, Brown)
PW, SLJ, Kirkus
Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson (HarperTeen)
PW, SLJ, Kirkus
Two Stars
After Eli by Rebecca Rupp (Candlewick)
PW, Kirkus
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Shienkin (Roaring Brook/Flash Point)
PW, Kirkus
The Diviners by Libba Bray (Little, Brown)
Booklist, Kirkus
Drama by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic)
PW, Kirkus
Every Day by David Levithan (Knopf)
Booklist, Kirkus
The Girl with Borrowed Wings by Rinsai Rossetti (Dial)
PW, Kirkus
The Impossible Rescue by Martin W. Sandler (Candlewick)
Booklist, Kirkus
In a Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz (Dutton)
PW, Kirkus
Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand by Ramon Perez (Archaia Entertainment)
PW, Booklist
My Book of Life by Angel Martine Leavitt (FSG/Ferguson)
PW, Kirkus
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)
PW, Kirkus
Son by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
Booklist, Kirkus
This is Not A Test by Courtney Summers (St. Martin’s Griffin)
PW, Bulletin
See the full list here.
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Hey, you missed a starred review for Seraphina, which also has 6 starred reviews (or maybe it just came out today!):
http://bccb.lis.illinois.edu/2012/Sept2012/0912star.html
Thanks for letting me know! The Bulletin September reviews weren’t up when I updated my list earlier this week.
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