This week on What We're Reading, Grand Rapids Area Library children's librarian Tracy Kampa shared new picture and middle-grade books.
Kampa recommended the picture books Crown for Corina by Laekan Zea Kemp and All By Myself, by Stephanie Shaw, which Kampa called a "delightfully twisted fairy tale."
Kampa also recommended the middle-grade book The Lost Year, by Katherine Marsh. She noted Marsh's careful research and called The Lost Year "great historical fiction and a really good book."
Another middle-grade book Kampa recommended is Hoops, writer Matt Tavares' debut graphic novel about a 1970s girls high school basketball team. She praised the book as "a thought-provoking, ultimately joyful book. If you've never read a graphic novel this is an excellent place to start."
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