Juvenile

The following is a list of juvenile books that we have reviewed to date, alphabetized by book title.  Click on the corresponding month and year in the Archives tab to see the full review, as well as book rating.

  • A Christmas Memory – Truman Capote (November 2019)
  • A Dog’s Way Home – Bobbie Pyron (December 2022)
  • A Finder’s Magic – Philippa Pearce (September 2018)
  • A Million Shades of Gray – Cynthia Kadohata (February 2019)
  • A Year Down Yonder (Newbery Medal) – Richard Peck (July 2020)
  • Abel’s Island (Newbery Honor) – William Steig (March 2019)
  • Adam of the Road (Newbery Medal) – Elizabeth Janet Gray (August 2019)
  • Along Came a Dog (Newbery Honor) – Meindert DeJong (May 2019)
  • Amal Unbound – Aisha Saeed (March 2023)
  • …and now Miguel (Newbery Medal) – Joseph Krumgold (March 2019)
  • Bed-Knob and Broomstick – Mary Norton (April 2019)
  • Ben and Me – Robert Lawson (June 2018)
  • Bronze and Sunflower (Historical Fiction) – April 2020
  • Bud, Not Buddy (Newbery Medal) – Christopher Paul Curtis (March 2019)
  • Bunnicula – Deborah and James Howe (October 2018)
  • Call It Courage (Newbery Medal) – Armstrong Sperry (June 2020)
  • Dead Boy – Laurel Gale (March 2020)
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World (Biography)- Penny Colman (February 2021)
  • Fortunately, the Milk – Neil Gaiman (April 2020)
  • George Müller: The Guardian of Bristol’s Orphans (Biography) – Janet & Geoff Benge (August 2022)
  • Gingersnap (Historical Fiction) – Patricia Reilly Giff (March 2018)
  • Hoot (Newbery Honor) – Carl Hiaasen (July 2020)
  • How We Got to Now (Non-Fiction Science) – Steven Johnson (March 2020)
  • I Love You, Michael Collins (Historical Fiction) – Lauren Baratz-Logsted (June 2018)
  • In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (Historical Fiction) – Bette Bao Lord (January 2019)
  • Incident at Hawk’s Hill (Newbery Honor) – Allan W. Eckert (November 2018)
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins (Newbery Medal) – Scott O’Dell (January 2023)
  • Junie B. Jones #28: Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten (and Other Thankful Stuff) – Barbara Park (November 2022)
  • King of the Wind (Historical Fiction, Newbery Medal) – Marguerite Henry (May 2019)
  • Looking for Marco Polo – Alan Armstrong (September 2018)
  • Mallory Makes a Difference – Laurie Friedman (November 2022)
  • Miss Hickory (Newbery Medal) – Carolyn Sherwin Baily (April 2020)
  • Mr. and Mrs. Bunny–Detectives Extraordinaire (Mystery) – Polly Horvath (October 2019)
  • My Louisiana Sky – Kimberly Willis Holt (April 2022)
  • My Side of the Mountain (Newbery Honor) – Jean Craighead (March 2018)
  • Olive’s Ocean (Newbery Honor) – Kevin Henkes (January 2023)
  • Onion John (Newbery Medal) – Joseph Krumgold (May 2020)
  • Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. (Newbery Honor) – Bette Greene (June 2020)
  • Princess Academy (Newbery Honor, Fantasy) – Shannon Hale (March 2021)
  • Rascal (Biography, Newbery Honor) – Sterling North (July 2020)
  • Return to the Willows – Jacqueline Kelly (June 2019)
  • Ruby on the Outside – Nora Raleigh Baskin (July 2018)
  • Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes – Eleanor Coerr (April 2018)
  • Savvy (Fantasy, Newbery Honor) – Ingrid Law (December 2020)
  • Shadow of a Bull (Newbery Medal) – Maia Wojceichowska (February 2020)
  • Smashie McPerter and the Mystery of Room 11 (Mystery) – N. Griffin (February 2023)
  • Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White (Biography) – Melissa Sweet (May 2018)
  • Somebody on This Bus is Going to Be Famous! (Mystery) – J.B. Cheaney (January 2023)
  • Sophia’s War – Avi (July 2018)
  • Spirit’s Key (Mystery) – Edith Cohn (March 2022)
  • Starfish – James Crowley (January 2022)
  • The Birchbark House – Louise Erdrich (February 2019)
  • The Borrowers (The Borrowers #1) (Fantasy) – Mary Norton (August 2022)
  • The Borrowers Afield (The Borrowers #2) (Fantasy) – Mary Norton (October 2022)
  • The Borrowers Afloat (The Borrowers #3) (Fantasy) – Mary Norton (December 2022)
  • The Borrowers Aloft (The Borrowers #4) (Fantasy) – Mary Norton (February 2023)
  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Biography) – William Kamkwamba (September 2019)
  • The Boy with the Butterfly Mind – Victoria Williamson (January 2023)
  • The Breaker Boys (Historical Fiction) – Pat Hughes (February 2020)
  • The Cat Who Went to Heaven (Newbery Medal) – Elizabeth Coatsworth (November 2019)
  • The Egypt Game (Newbery Honor) – Zilpha Keatley Snyder (March 2018)
  • The Fairy Ring: Or Elsie and Frances Fool the World (Non-Fiction) – Mary Losure (April 2020)
  • The Friendship Doll (Historical Fiction) – Kirby Larson (September 2019)
  • The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio (Fantasy) – Lloyd Alexander (June 2020)
  • The Good Dog – Avi (February 2023)
  • The Gypsy Game – Zilpha Keatley Snyder (May 2022)
  • The House With a Clock in Its Walls – John Bellairs (October 2018)
  • The Hundred Dresses (Newbery Honor) – Eleanor Estes (August 2019)
  • The Incredible Journey – Sheila Burnford (November 2018)
  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznik (March 2018)
  • The King of Mulberry Street – Mary Jo Napoli (July 2018)
  • The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming – Lemony Snicket (December 2018)
  • The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus – L. Frank Baum (December 2018)
  • The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo (August 2018)
  • The Mighty Miss Malone (Historical Fiction) – Christopher Paul Curtis (February 2022)
  • The Moffats – Eleanor Estes (May 2021)
  • The Mostly True Story of Jack – Kelly Barnhill (August 2018)
  • The Music of Dolphins – Karen Hesse (June 2019)
  • The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) (Mystery) – Ellen Raskin (September 2020)
  • The Night Garden – Polly Horvath (February 2019)
  • The Old Willis Place – Mary Downing Hahn (October 2018)
  • The One and Only Ivan (Newbery Medal) – Katherine Applegate (August 2020)
  • The Pepins and Their Problems – Polly Horvath (February 2023)
  • The Pushcart War – Jean Merrill (September 2022)
  • The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs – Betty G. Birney (August 2018)
  • The Sign of the Beave (Newbery Honor) – Elizabeth George Speare (November 2022)
  • The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales – Jon Scieszka (February 2020)
  • The Summer of the Swans (Newbery Medal) – Betsy Byars (May 2018)
  • The Tale of Despereaux (Newbery Medal) – Kate DiCamillo (April 2018)
  • The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket – John Boyne (November 2018)
  • The Tiger Rising – Kate DiCamillo (January 2021)
  • The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp – Kathi Appelt (February 2021)
  • The True Gift – Patricia MacLachlan (December 2018)
  • The Underneath (Newbery Honor) – Kathi Appelt (September 2018)
  • The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin (May 2018)
  • The Wheel on the School (Newbery Medal) – Meindert DeJong (April 2019)
  • The White Stag (Newbery Medal) – Kate Seredy (December 2019)
  • The Witches – Roald Dahl (October 2018)
  • Thimble Summer (Newbery Medal) – Elizabeth Enright (August 2022)
  • Time Cat – Lloyd Alexander (May 2018)
  • Turn Homeward, Hannalee (Historical Fiction) – Patricia Beatty (March 2022)
  • When Zachary Beaver Came to Town – Kimberly Willis Holt (May 2021)
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