Again, really good for individual households, not great for libraries.

Great for personal use.

As usual, a stunning well-researched work of nonfiction by Heiligman. I wasn't familiar with 'The Children's Ship' before this book, and it's a heartbreaking tragedy. Heiligman chooses to focus on a few families as a guides through the book, which gives the reader people to focus on. I found it fairly easy to keep track of everyone, although occasionally I did confuse a few children that were CORB versus paying passengers. Lovely endnotes as well.

My only complaint is that it is published by a Macmillan imprint and I'm reading it while they are doing their ridiculous ebook thing and I'm just so annoyed by them that I'm reluctant to encourage others to purchase anything by them. So....borrow it from somewhere?

This is another book I want to rave about. There is complicated, messy, gray looks at racism (particularly white savior complex) and how to deal with the effects of internment camps. There are complicated, wonderful, mother/daughter and aunt/niece relationships. There is discussion of pregnancy and how women feel about it. How do you honor your family's legacy while not draining your savings? Just so much good, good stuff. I listened to the audio and it was wonderful.

I thought I reviewed this one when I read the ARC. I guess not. It's really, really good.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. It's pretty dark. I think this might be my first Holly Black standalone book I have read. I'll be interested to read the second one.

This is Ruby's usual beautiful writing, but it also feels quite stream-of-conscious in a way--the dialogue doesn't often have quotation marks, and sometimes it switches perspective quickly, and it would take me a while to figure out who was speaking. I also didn't always know what was going on, but it seemed like the characters did, so that was novel (haha). I also learned something about history I didn't know, which was that children were dropped off at orphanages during the Great Depression if their parents couldn't take care of them. Of course, Frankie's dad takes it one step further. Overall, I enjoyed the book.

This is such a cute story. It's about the experience of coming back to your hometown with a problem, of second chances at romance, with lots of diversity in the story and it all being accepted straightforward. You changed your pronouns? Fine. Oh, you wear hearing aids and take them out sometimes? No problem! The basic plot is that an evil being has come to town, and Nova, along with her family and friends, is going to save the forest. Adorable.

I thought this was an excellent introduction for teens about the experiences that cause people to cross the border illegally. Each little look illustrates something slightly different, and each will break your heart.

I really liked this one. It was not as gross as I expected and it covers why the animals that eat dead things are important.