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2016

Lives of Friends

Darkness and Light

Lives of Friends Mary Jean Port
December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

The Goodbye Book

By Todd Parr. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2015. 32 pages. $17/hardcover; $9.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 2–5. The Goodbye…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Emilie Gay

December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Where’s the Elephant?

By Barroux. Candlewick Press, 2016. 32 pages. $14.99/hardcover. Recommended for ages 3–7. Where’s the Elephant? begins like a picture puzzle…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Anne Nydam

December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Bloom

By Doreen Cronin, illustrated by David Small. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Margaret T. Walden

December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay

By Susan Hood, illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2016. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook.…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Vickie LeCroy

December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game

By Nancy Churnin, illustrated by Jez Tuya. Albert Whitman & Company, 2016. 32 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $6.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 5–8.…

Reviewed by Reviewed by James Foritano

December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

The Water Princess

By Susan Verde and Georgie Badiel, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds. G.P. Putnam’s Sons’ Books for Young Readers, 2016. 40…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Sandy and Tom Farley

December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

The Artist and Me

By Shane Peacock, illustrated by Sophie Casson. Owlkids Books, 2016. 40 pages. $16.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 5–9. This beautifully illustrated…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Lucinda Hathaway

December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Dorothea’s Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth

By Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by Gérard DuBois. Calkins Creek, 2016. 40 pages. $16.95/hardcover. Recommended for ages 8–12. I have always…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Hina Fathima

December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

The Extraordinary Suzy Wright: A Colonial Woman on the Frontier

By Teri Kanefield. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2016. 64 pages. $19.95/hardcover; $15.54/eBook. Recommended for ages 8–12. This is a…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Paul Buckley

December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Approved! A Story About Quaker Meeting for Business

By Nancy L. Haines, illustrated by Anne E. G. Nydam. Pleasant Green Books, 2016. 24 pages. $12/paperback. Recommended for ages…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Eileen Redden

December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Wolf Hollow

By Lauren Wolk. Dutton Children’s Books, 2016. 294 pages. $16.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook. Recommended for ages 10 and up. “The year I…

Reviewed by Reviewed by Judith Favor

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