33 Great New Titles, Including a Star by Kwame Alexander & a LOVE Story by Jason Reynolds | Starred Reviews, October 2024

In this month's starred reviews, Oliver Gerlach goes off menu, David F. Walker reimagines an American classic, and more.

Inside pages from: Play Games with Me (Chen) ©2024 by Lorraine Nam
Play Games with Me (Chen) ©2024 by Lorraine Nam

 

Board Books

Bilal, Rumaisa. Pakistan. illus. by Nez Riaz. Barefoot. 

Chen, Kat. Play Games with Me. illus. by Lorraine Nam. Penguin Workshop/Rise X.

Detrick-Jules, St. Clair. My Hair Is Like Yours. illus. by Tabitha Brown. Chronicle. 

Vickers, Roy Henry & Lucky Budd. A Flock of Gulls, A Chorus of Frogs. Harbour. 

 

Good Golden Sun (Wenzel) ©2024 by Brendan Wenzel
Good Golden Sun (Wenzel) ©2024 by Brendan Wenzel

Picture Books

Brett, Jan. Alice in a Winter Wonderland. Putnam. 

Milway, Katie Smith & Mary Beth Leatherdale. One Hen and Then: The Story of a Small Loan and a Big Dream. illus. by Tequitia Andrews. Kids Can. 

Paul, Baptiste. ¡Sigamos subiendo! tr. by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera. illus. by Jacqueline Alcántara. NorthSouth/Ediciones NorteSur. 

Rao-Robinson, Anitha. Sari Sisters. illus. by Anoosha Syed. Viking. 

Wenzel, Brendan. Good Golden Sun. Little, Brown. 

 

Chapter Books

Barrows, Annie. Stella & Marigold. illus. by Sophie Blackall. Chronicle. 

Winkler, Henry & Lin Oliver. Detective Duck: The Case of the Missing Tadpole. illus. by Dan Santat. Abrams/Amulet. 



 

Middle Grade

Alexander, Kwame. Black Star. Little, Brown. 

Hung, Louise. Hungry Bones. Scholastic. 

Johnson, Leah, ed. Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood. Freedom Fire. 

Safadi, Shifa Saltagi. Kareem Between. Putnam. 

Vitalis, Jessica. Unsinkable Cayenne. Greenwillow. 

 

YA

Ali, S.K. Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of Revolution. Penguin/Kokila. 

Cesare, Adam. Influencer. Union Square Kids & Co. 

Glasgow, Kathleen. The Glass Girl. Delacorte. 

Lin, Judy I. The Dark Becomes Her. Rick Riordan Presents. 

Pink, Randi. Under the Heron’s Light. Feiwel & Friends. 

Reynolds, Jason. Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A LOVE Story. Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy. 

Tew, Jill. The Dividing Sky. Random/Joy Revolution. 

 

Graphic Novels

Gerlach, Oliver. Off Menu. illus. by Kelsi Jo Silva. little bee/Yellow Jacket. 

Gilligan, Paul. Boy vs. Shark. Tundra. 

Mari, Christine. Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery. Little, Brown Ink. 

purpah. Suitor Armor. Ten Speed Graphic. 

Sattin, Samuel. Side Quest: A Visual History of Roleplaying Games. illus. by Steenz. HarperCollins/Versify. 

Walker, David F. Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined. illus. by Marcus Kwame Anderson. Ten Speed Graphic.

 

Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins—The First Lady of Children’s Music (Todd) ©2024 by Eleanor Davis
Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins—The First Lady of Children’s Music (Todd) ©2024 by Eleanor Davis


Nonfiction

Cargill-Martin, Honor. She Speaks: The Girls of Greek Myths in Their Own Words. illus. by Camelia Pham. Abrams/Magic Cat.

Partridge, Elizabeth. Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge. illus. by Ellen Heck. Chronicle. 

Rappaport, Doreen. Beacon of Hope: The Life of Barack Obama. illus. by Tonya Engel. Little, Brown. 

Todd, Traci N. Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins—The First Lady of Children’s Music. illus. by Eleanor Davis. Chronicle. 

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