School Library Journal Starred Reviews
Posted by bibliokaren on February 10, 2009
Looking for something to read and, possibly, nominate for the PittPrintz? Starred reviews in selection tools are a good place to start. Below are the young adult titles that received starred reviews in the January and February School Library Journals.
February, 2009
Fiction
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls. March, 2009. (ARC available – email brooks1@carnegielibrary.org to request).
McKernon, Victoria. The Devil’s Paintbox.
Naidoo, Beverly. Burn My Heart. January, 2009 (ARC available – email brooks1@carnegielibrary.org to request)
Nonfiction
Hoose, Phillip. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice.
Walker, Sally Ann. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland.
Read all SLJ’s February reviews.
January
Fiction
Hiaasen, Carl. Scat.
Young, E.L. Storm: the Ghost Machine.
Nonfiction
Heiligman, Deborah. Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith.
Scott, Elaine. Mars and the Search for Life.
Shange, Ntozake. Coretta Scott.
Turck, Mary C. Freedom Song: Young Voices and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Read all SLJ’s January reviews.
