A FATE TOTALLY WORSE THAN DEATH

Paul Fleischman, . . Candlewick, $5.99 (124pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-2189-6

A trio of vain overprivileged high school girls experience horrifying symptoms of accelerated aging when they try their usual nasty tricks on a beautiful exchange student. PW described this spoof of young adult horror novels as "lavishly dosed with comic hyperbole." Ages 14-up. (May)

Featured Children's Reviews

Kazumi Yumoto

When Bear’s friend, a little bird, dies suddenly, Bear is bereft. He makes a berry-stained, flower-lined box and tucks the bird inside, where “his tiny black beak gleamed like Continue reading »

Jarrett Lerner

Using succinct and personal-feeling verse, Lerner (the Nat the Cat series) crafts an empathetic illustrated novel about one boy’s experience with body dysmorphia, disordered Continue reading »

Morgan Matson

When a tween accepts an invitation to stay with her estranged maternal grandparents in the Poconos, she finds a large and lively extended family, and a treasure map, in this Continue reading »

Leah Johnson

Comic book enthusiast Ellie Engle, who is Black, sees herself as the epitome of ordinary, and she’s content to dwell in the pressure-free shadow of her outgoing Latina best Continue reading »