Books by Dashka Slater and Complete Book Reviews

Dashka Slater. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-30323-5
Journalist and author Slater (Escargot) offers a riveting account of the events that preceded and followed a 2013 assault in Oakland, Calif. Both Sasha (a white, agender private school teenager) and Richard (an African-American public school student
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Dashka Slater, illus. by Valeria Docampo. Dial, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3374-9
Princess Amanita likes poisonous and dangerous things, and she grows them in her garden: her heckle-berries insult passersby and the stink lilies smell “like a mixture of dog food, cabbage, and Limburger cheese.” Cheerful Prince Florian shows up...
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Dashka Slater, illus. by Eric Fan and Terry Fan. Beach Lane, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5160-4
Marco, a fox, thirsts to know everything: “Why don’t trees ever talk? How deep does the sun go when it sinks into the sea?” A ship appears off the coast of Marco’s forest. It’s crewed by deer (they’re poor sailors, they admit), and its figurehead is
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Dashka Slater, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $22.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-8118-2606-8
Slater's enchanting debut puts magic-realist devices to good use as it uncovers a complex family history. The interwoven narratives start in 1989, in Oakland, where 29-year-old single mother Julia Harris lives with her two young children; her...
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Dashka Slater, Author, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Illustrator , illus. by Nicolette Ceccoli. Houghton $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-55459-1
As she drifts off to sleep, a girl hears the sirens emerging from the fire station near her house. "I know where they are going," she tells herself, launching into three fantasies about first responders King, Penelope, Almondine and BruceR
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Dashka Slater. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-30119-4
With a dash of imagination and a heap of adventure, Slater’s middle grade fantasy debut, starring 12-year-old biracial cousins Rufus and Abigail, is certain to appeal to readers of varying ages. At school, half-Japanese, half-white Rufus Takada...
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Dashka Slater. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $20.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-374-31434-7
Slater (The 57 Bus) chronicles the fallout of a high schooler’s bigoted Instagram account in this emotionally raw work, divided into 15 parts. In 2017, racist and misogynist meme posts from an Instagram account run by a Korean American high school...
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Dashka Slater, illus. by Laura Hughes. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-1567-0
Through the extended metaphor of taming a wild stallion, an imaginative child describes learning to ride a new bike in this warmly encouraging story. When Daddy puts Kayla’s little pink bike “out to pasture,” the child, portrayed with tan skin and...
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