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So Much Slime by Jason Lefebvre & Zac Retz

Matty is a grade-schooler who loves making homemade slime with his parents. When he gets permission to demonstrate how to make slime in art class at school, he’s super excited! He packs enough ingredients so that all his classmates can get some slime to take home with them, and repeats to himself the simple recipe …

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Tantalizing Tales — February 2025 — Part One

Happy Valentine’s Day, readers! Love the day or loathe the day, we have a terrific slate of new book recommendations to complement your feelings toward the season. First off, we have a new genre-bending standalone novel from TJ Klune, The Bones Beneath My Skin. With an enemies-to-lovers queer romance, speculative twists, road trip comedy and …

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Ex Marks The Spot by Gloria Chao

So excited I get to review this in the overlap between the Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day seasons! Gemma Sun is the perfect straight-A student. Hard-working and straitlaced to a fault, she’s always wanted to cause minimal trouble for her own mother Jean, who had her young and without family support. For as long …

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Lebanon Is Burning And Other Dispatches by Yazan Al-Saadi et. al.

featuring the art of Tracy Chahwan, Ganzeer, Ghadi Ghosn, Omar Khouri, Sirene Moukheiber, Hicham Rahma and Enas Satir. Hoo boy, readers, what a book. If you’re as unfamiliar with current events in the Middle East and North Africa as I am, then this book is likely to be a jarring experience for you, as Yazan …

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The Bushcraft 101 Field Log by Dave Canterbury

subtitled Track And Record Your Wilderness Adventures. A part of me has always wanted to have wilderness adventures. I want to be that person who enjoys camping and hiking and surviving in the outdoors. Alas, even with my well-practiced adaptability, I am only ever reluctantly the outdoorsy type, and less and less so as the …

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Jovi Giraffe Learns To Look by Patricia Bardina, Joanne Burgess & Paul Sharp

subtitled A Lesson in Eye Contact, and frankly a very valuable read for anyone who’s ever struggled with sociability. This companion piece to Revony Rhinoceros Starts To Smile is another terrific book about how body language encourages relationships or otherwise. With its cute anthropomorphic cast, it’s an accessible way for people who struggle with social …

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Timing/Luck by Gerry Duggan

subtitled Two Decades Of Photos From Comic Books & Hollywood. So I’ve been a comic book fan since the mid 1980s but darned if I can think of a single Gerry Duggan comic that I’ve read. This is not meant to be an insult, especially since my devotion to mainstream Marvel/DC Comics faded soon after …

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If You Knew My Name by Lisa Roberts Carter

I honestly don’t recall the last time I read a novel in verse, but I’m glad I broke that spell with this powerful debut! Mason Zy’Aire Tyndall is a high school senior who has two goals: hone his battle rap skills to better fit the “Legend” moniker he’s working on and find a cute girl …

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The Green Witch Illustrated by Arin Murphy-Hiscock & Sara Richard

subtitled An Enchanting Immersion Into The Magic Of Natural Witchcraft. When I was a young teenager first interested in learning more about witchcraft, I pestered my poor dad into getting me books on the subject whenever he traveled overseas — heaven knows, you weren’t about to find anything accessible on the topic in Malaysia back …

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The Sky Is Not Blue by Joy Jones & Sawyer Cloud

Happy Black History Month, readers! We’re kicking off February with this terrific children’s picture book about perspective and empathy and quietly standing up for yourself, because who couldn’t use a little more of that right now? Robert is a creative kid who has the eye of an artist. He never assumes that anything is just …

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