Trade Review Roundup: Week of March 18

3/22/2019

We are happy to share trade reviews for titles across two of our imprints this week. Click "read more" below to learn about each book and author.

School Library Journal reviewed Thinker by Eloise Greenfield, illus. by Ehsan Abdollahi

Thinker isn’t just an average puppy—he’s a poet. So is his owner, Jace. Together, they turn the world around them into verse.

There’s just one problem: Thinker has to keep quiet in public, and he can’t go to school with Jace. That is, until Pets’ Day. But when Thinker is allowed into the classroom at last, he finds it hard to keep his true identity a secret…
A new collection of poetry for kids from Coretta Scott King Book Award winner Eloise Greenfield!

Thinker isn’t just an average puppy—he’s a poet. So is his owner, Jace. Together, they turn the world around them into verse.

There’s just one problem: Thinker has to keep quiet in public, and he can’t go to school with Jace. That is, until Pets’ Day. But when Thinker is allowed into the classroom at last, he finds it hard to keep his true identity a secret.

Praise for Thinker:

“Coretta Scott King Award-winner Greenfield sensitively conveys Jace’s anxiety about being perceived as different, and his realization that being true to one’s self is the best bet—for kids and dog poets, too.”--Publishers Weekly

A Kate Greenaway Medal nominee

ELOISE GREENFIELD received the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2018. She is also the recipient of the Foundation for Children's Literature Hope S. Dean Award and the National Council for the Social Studies Carter G. Woodson Book Award. Eloise lives in Washington, DC. You can follow her on Twitter @ELGreenfield.

EHSAN ABDOLLAHI teaches at Tehran’s top Honar (Art) University and has illustrated a number of children’s books, including When I Coloured in the World, by one of Iran’s best-known living poets, Ahmadreza Ahmadi.

School Library Journal reviewed The Lost by Natasha Preston

New from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cellar

It's a fight for survival in a building designed to ensure that no one makes it out alive.

In Piper's hometown, teenagers keep disappearing, and everyone assumes they're just a bunch of runaways. But when yet another person vanishes, Piper and her best friend Hazel suspect something more sinister is going on.

So they decide to investigate, determined to learn the truth. Their search for answers leads them to the source of the missing…and their captors. Piper and Hazel suddenly find themselves locked away in a secluded property in the middle of a privately owned forest.

But the building isn't only meant to keep them imprisoned; every room is a test to see if they can make it out alive.

And failure means being lost…forever.

A high stakes thriller for readers of One of Us is Lying and The Cheerleaders!

Natasha Preston is the New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin and The Cellar. A UK native, she discovered her love of writing when she shared a story online—and hasn’t looked back. She enjoys writing romance, thrillers, gritty YA, and the occasional serial killer. Visit natashapreston.com.