Review of Red Star Rebels, by Amie Kaufman

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Red Star Rebels

by Amie Kaufman
performed by Max Meyers, Jessica Almasy, and a full cast

Listening Library, 2026. 7 hours, 33 minutes.
Review written August 14, 2026, from a library eaudiobook.
Starred review

The audio production for this book is amazing. It’s to the level of a radio play. There’s even a music soundtrack throughout. Occasionally, when the music turned happy in the romantic parts, it felt a tiny bit hokey, but mostly it dialed my tension way up. At one point I turned it off a couple times to make sure that machine sound wasn’t coming from inside my own home. This was a good thing – you’re completely immersed in the story. This one was hard to stop at any point in the story, and had me so riveted, it maybe wasn’t the best background listening if I was trying to do anything else. (But I didn’t miss any turns or get into any accidents while driving, so it all worked out.)

Red Star Rebels is set in a United Nations station on Mars – one of the last and lowest budget bases that was built on Mars. We have two viewpoint characters. First is Cleo, who got to Mars as a hitcher when she was trying to escape debt collectors after her for medical debt from the illness that killed her father. Since Cleo isn’t registered to be there, she’s got tricks for places to hide and stashes of food. And a pressure suit in case there’s ever an evacuation – because the system doesn’t know she’s there and rovers won’t wait for her.

Our second protagonist is Hunter Graves. He’s the billionaire grandson of the man who got to Mars first and put a compound there, breaking rules, but also breaking new ground. Hunter didn’t let his mother and sister know that he was coming, and used his money to keep them from finding out. He has just arrived at the UN station and wants to arrange passage to the Graves compound, but is told that a dust storm will make it impossible to travel for a few days.

And then an alarm goes off. A voice repeats a message in several languages that everyone needs to get to the evacuation rovers because a toxin has been identified in the air, and the station is going to be vented. Trouble is, Hunter wasn’t registered yet, so the system doesn’t know he’s there, so the evacuation rovers for visitors don’t wait for him. Fortunately for him, after he puts out a Mayday call (blocked by the dust storm from anyone outside the station), a girl with red hair wearing a pressure suit comes to him bringing a second pressure suit. (And on the audiobook, her voice sounds like it’s coming from a microphone in a suit.)

But after Hunter thinks this girl Cleo has saved his life, the station doesn’t start venting after all. In fact, some Rovers pull up to the station on the opposite side from where the evacuees left. A group of people enter the station and come to the command center. Cleo and Hunter hear them say there are six hours left before everything blows, and they see them doing something with the computer system.

Hunter and Cleo don’t make their presence known right away. Can they figure out a way to escape the station before it gets blown up to erase the evidence? And what, exactly, are these people planning?

There are different phases to the story as Cleo and Hunter grapple with changing situations, revisions in their information, and a dawning knowledge of what the intruders are planning to do.

Meanwhile, Cleo has every reason to hate anyone from the Graves corporation, who produced the medicine that her father needed and couldn’t afford. And Hunter has every reason to hate hitchers, since a group of them from “Mars For All” killed his father. Nobody has ever been there for them before, but they may need to rely on each other to get out of this alive.

I don’t want to say much more than that except that the tension doesn’t let up for a minute. When you think they’ve overcome one obstacle, something new happens to threaten them. But as they’re working for survival, it turns out they’re both good at thinking on their feet. Cleo’s knowledge of the base – from living in secret for months – is crucial, and so is Hunter’s knowledge of the computer systems used by all the bases on Mars. And it’s an awful lot of fun to hear about.

The story was excellent and made me believe that could be what life on Mars is like in forty years, including the part about rich people not caring about the lives of others, sadly. I’m going to strongly recommend if you read this book, do it via audiobook. The production was that good. Be prepared for high tension, though!

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Review of Me & the Magic Cube, by Daniel Fehr, illustrated by Golden Cosmos

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Me & the Magic Cube

by Daniel Fehr
illustrated by Golden Cosmos
translated from German by Marshall Yarbrough

NorthSouth Books, 2025. Originally published in Switzerland by NordSüd Verlag. 44 pages.
Review written October 27, 2025, from a library book.
Starred Review

Like the book Ernö Rubik and His Magic Cube, written by Kerry Aradhya, illustrated by Kara Kramer, this picture book tells the story of Rubik’s Cubes, which I’m very surprised are still popular with kids. (My niece can solve one in less than five minutes!)

This one only mentions the inventor in passing, though. It takes a story approach to the topic, showing us three fictional kids who find a Magic Cube. I’m still calling this book nonfiction, though, because the book is primarily interesting facts about the cube, how it’s put together – and the beginning fundamentals about how to solve it. There’s a fantastic illustration of the cube all taken apart.

Like the curious kids portrayed in the story, this is a good choice for kids curious about the Magic Cube and who are interested in learning how to solve it.

And kids like my niece who already know how to solve it can learn lots of fun facts about the Magic Cube and how it’s put together.

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Review of A Day Off School, by Oliver Jeffers and Kevin Waldron

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A Day Off School

by Oliver Jeffers and Kevin Waldron

Philomel, 2026. 44 pages.
Review written August 12, 2026, from a library book.
Starred Review

Herbie has the sniffles. He gets a day off school! Before his dad even checks on him, he eats breakfast in a sofa fort, plays Space Blasters, races his cars, draws a giant dinosaur, practices his yo-yo tricks, bounces a ball, and watches some cartoons. [Of course there are pictures to go with all of these activities.]

After lunch, everything seems boring. [I love the bored slump to his body in the pictures of his attempts at fun.]

Then… he starts thinking about school…

What if something really good happened there today?

Like an extra playtime?
Or a dog loose in the corridor?

From there, his imagination takes off. (And the pictures for this part are glorious.) So much so, that when his sister gets home, he wonders if that’s a space helmet hidden in her backpack from the rides the aliens gave the kids on their spaceship.

The next day, he gets to go back to school. It’s really boring.

Or is it?

As usual with Oliver Jeffers, the wild imagination presented in a matter-of-fact way strikes the perfect note. (Stuck is still one of my all-time favorite picture books.)

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Review of One Word, Six Letters, by Adib Khorram

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One Word, Six Letters

by Adib Khorram

Henry Holt and Company, 2026. 213 pages.
Review written August 11, 2026, from a library book.
Starred Review

I’ve got a soft spot for Adib Khorram’s writing because his Morris-Award-winning debut novel, Darius the Great Is Not Okay, was published the year I was on the Newbery Committee. Although Darius did not win the Newbery (and is really more of a young adult book than a children’s book), it was a 2018 Sonderbooks Stand-out – in a year that I read ALL the best children’s and young adult books of the year and read most of them at least twice. So, yeah, I love his writing.

This book is about the effects of bullying language. The word referred to in the title is never printed on the page, but the cover tells us it starts with F and we know that one of the students is afraid people are saying it about him because they think he’s gay.

We’ve got two perspectives in this book, and both are presented in present tense, addressed to “you.” Usually I hate present-tense novels, let alone second-person – but Adib Khorram pulls it off, and it didn’t bother me a bit. I’ll give you a taste with the starting paragraph of each character.

For Dayton:

You know you’ve messed up when you get marched into the principal’s office.

For Farshid:

You’re so used to people saying your name wrong, you don’t realize it at first. After all, people have been messing up Farshid for as long as people have been saying it. Even the teachers who get it (mostly) right can’t quite do the ar, which is sort of halfway between air and are.

The situation is that both boys are freshmen in high school. They barely know each other, but have a class together. In an all-school assembly, a visiting poet was speaking, and a guy named Reggie bet Dayton to shout that word. Dayton wanted the $20 to buy some food (He hadn’t eaten breakfast.), so he did it. And it affected his whole school year. And Reggie never paid up.

Farshid wasn’t singled out by Dayton, but he’s afraid everyone was thinking of him. He insists to himself that he’s not gay. He focuses on lifting weights, working out, and watching his diet. His best friend, a girl named Nour, drags him to the Rainbow Coalition to show solidarity after the incident in the assembly. Farshid hopes people know he’s going as an ally.

Dayton gets in-school suspension the same time as another kid, named Brody. Dayton’s told to write an apology letter, and he knows he only did it for the bet – but no one else at school sees it that way. Dayton’s former friends don’t want anything to do with him, so his new best friend is Brody, who isn’t as picky about his language and doesn’t hold that mistake against him.

We go through the whole school year with these two boys. The incident has surprisingly long-lasting effects – which they eventually have to face up to.

And it’s all written engagingly, so you care about both boys, even the one who shouted the slur, as he learns a lesson about trying to repair your mistakes.

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Review of Basket Ball, by Kadir Nelson

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Basket Ball

The Story of the All-American Game

by Kadir Nelson

Little, Brown and Company, 2026. 104 pages.
Review written August 10, 2026, from a library book.
Starred Review

Like Kadir Nelson’s stunning We Are the Ship from many years ago, his oversize paintings of players are the stars of this book. The book is large and square, as big as a picture book, but packed with text that’s full of information. The detailed text is broken up with a large, magnificent painting on every spread, as if the players are standing there ready to throw you the ball.

He’s got information about how basketball was invented and how it caught on, how and why the rules changed, how it slowly became integrated, and the various leagues over the years. One section highlights star players over the history of the game.

There’s a chapter at the end about women’s basketball. My one quibble is I would have liked this information included with the rest of the book. The author did a good job covering the times when there were separate leagues for African Americans – it would have been interesting to mention how Women’s Basketball fit into that in the same timeline.

But that’s a minor quibble for this strikingly beautiful book. I make no secret that I’m not a sports fan – but reading this had me riveted. I learned much about basketball that I didn’t think I cared about before picking up this book.

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Review of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, by Sangu Mandanna

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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

by Sangu Mandanna
read by Samara MacLaren

Penguin Audio, 2022. 9 hours, 59 minutes.
Review written June 12, 2026, from a library eaudiobook.
Starred Review

I’m so glad that after I read A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping, I looked for more books by the same author. This cozy paranormal romantasy is like a warm hug. Well, okay, it’s a somewhat sexy hug – but the main point of the book is feel-good warmth.

[As it happens, the love interest in both books was a handsome librarian. I can get behind that!]

As the book opens, Mika Moon is a witch who’s used to being isolated. The witches of Britain only get together every few months for a couple hours, and they change the location every time. Too much power in one place will attract attention, and that can lead to disaster.

But then she gets a job offer for a job she hadn’t been looking for. There’s a hidden house in the country inhabited by an older gay couple, a fifty-something lady caretaker, a handsome librarian – and three little girl witches. The adults are looking for a witch to teach the girls magic. They tend to have magical accidents and need to learn to control their power before a lawyer comes by the day after Christmas. The owner of the house is a witch herself who took these girls in, and she’s been in South America for quite some time. Or so Mika is told.

So there are all the ingredients of Mary Poppins or Maria von Trapp. Two of the girls are easily won over, as Mika shares her love of magic, but the other is more challenging.

And the romance part is difficult. All witches are under a curse, or at least a spell gone wrong, and become orphans soon after their birth. Mika had a witch as her guardian, but she was raised by nannies and tutors whose memories were wiped when they figured out what Mika was. So Mika has spent her life moving from one place to another, never getting close enough so that people will find out what she is and want to use their magic for themselves.

And if the head witch of the local society finds out that four witches are living under one roof, Mika knows they’ll be split up. So it’s better to try not to get too fond of this feeling of family and home.

The characters filling the house help make this book the delight it is. Each of the girls has a personality, and all the adults have built a loving family for them. Mika herself shines with her love of magic and a desire to do good things with it.

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Review of Sabriel, by Garth Nix

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Sabriel

by Garth Nix
read by Tim Curry

Listening Library, 2002. 10 hours, 43 minutes.
Review written October 21, 2025, from a library eaudiobook.
Starred Review
Original review posted January 20, 2004.
2004 Sonderbooks Stand-out: #3 Fantasy for Young Adults

As part of #Sonderbooks25, celebrating 25 years of posting Sonderbooks, I’m rereading many of my Sonderbooks Stand-outs from previous years and writing new reviews for the ones written before my 2006 revision of the website. The project is taking me much, much longer than I thought it would, because I’m reading more of my old reviews than planned and rereading (or listening) to more of the books – but I’m having a whole lot of fun with it, so what’s not to like?

And I don’t think I remembered just how good Sabriel is. I wish I could define why it’s head and shoulders above your run-of-the-mill current romantasy – because then maybe I could write one myself. But I’ll try to put my finger on some of the things that make the book so excellent.

First, Garth Nix does an incredible job with world-building. The world and the magic system is unlike any other fantasy novel I’ve ever read, and is incredibly complex, but he expertly pulls you along without ever a boring exposition drop. Sabriel has been brought up in a school close to the border with the Old Kingdom – full of Charter Magic – but her father has been teaching her the skills of an Abhorsen – a necromancer on the side of good who can send dead things back into Death.

But one day Sabriel gets a messenger from Death bringing her father’s bells and sword. She’s told she is the new Abhorsen. So Sabriel goes on a quest into the Old Kingdom to try to find her father’s body and free him from whatever trapped him in Death. And it turns out along the way, she is trying to save the entire Old Kingdom from the Greater Dead creature that trapped him there.

We get information about what she needs to do and how to do it as she goes – but it’s not done in a haphazard way. Sabriel starts with basic knowledge of how to use the Abhorsen’s bells against dead things – which she has to use in her journey. She finds broken Charter stones and decimated villages in her travels, and there are many terrifying moments when she is chased by powerful dead beings.

Yes, there’s a little bit of romance. The romance is shown to the reader rather than told. Though honestly, they could have said a little more about it – but I happen to like understated romance more than overstated romance.

And the story pulls you in, from Sabriel’s first small venture into death to save a friend’s pet to her frantic stand against a creature of Destruction. This book was even better than I remembered.

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Review of Busted, by Dan Gemeinhart

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Busted

by Dan Gemeinhart
read by Mark Sanderlin

Macmillan Audio, 2025. 8 hours, 44 minutes.
Review written July 31, 2026, from a library book.
Starred Review

Busted is one of those intergenerational caper novels that are fabulous when done well, and this one is exquisitely pulled off, with plenty of adventure and crazy situations for middle school students to enjoy, while simultaneously giving adult readers like me all the feels.

Oscar has grown up in a retirement community. Three days after his birth, he went to live with his grandpa at Sunny Days retirement community, and he’s got a huge set of unofficial grandparents who look after him. The book opens when Oscar is twelve years old and attending his forty-ninth funeral, for Mr. Howell, the kind man who owned the place.

When Mr. Howell’s son takes over, it isn’t long before Oscar and his Pops learn their rent is going to be quadrupled. So when a shady character down the hall offers Oscar money to do something for him, Oscar goes against his instincts and against everything he learned from the kind folks he lives with.

What Jimmy Deluca wants is for Oscar to bust him out of the nursing home. Mr. Deluca uses oxygen, wears a monitor, and is checked on every four hours. At first, Oscar thinks it’s enough to get Mr. Deluca out the door without the alarm going off, but next thing he knows, if he wants the money, Oscar has to come along.

And it’s not just Oscar and Mr. Deluca, whose mafia name turns out to have been Jimmy the Wrench. Jimmy the Wrench brought along his hairless cat, Mr. Buttercup. And then Natasha, Mr. Howell’s twelve-year-old granddaughter, inserts herself into the caper, someone much less uptight than Oscar about breaking rules.

They set off in Mr. Deluca’s classic car on what turns out to be a bucket list journey to some sketchy places, but starting with a mall, where Oscar has to buy clothes for Natasha to wear in place of the bathing suit she was wearing when she broke out of the retirement community with them. Including underthings.

Oscar figures they won’t get busted if they get back to the retirement community before a nurse checks on Mr. Deluca in four hours, but he didn’t account for Mr. Deluca’s plans.

The whole adventure is a wild ride from one thing to another. We learn that Oscar has some unusual talents as he gets to wrestle with when to worry about the right thing to do and when to worry about the good thing to do. The foursome (including the hairless cat) make an unlikely group, and this story is entertaining every step of the way – but comes to a conclusion so poignant, you might shed a tear or two.

I clearly haven’t read enough books by Dan Gemeinhart, because every one I have read has packed a punch.

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Review of The Crooked Places Made Straight, by Raphael G. Warnock

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The Crooked Places Made Straight

Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America

by Raphael G. Warnock

Penguin Press, 2026. 187 pages.
Review written July 27, 2026, from a library book.
Starred Review

I’m going to list this book by the senator from Georgia who is also a pastor with Christian books, but I could just as well put it in the Current Issues section (and that’s where it is on the library shelves). Because yes, Raphael Warnock talks about political issues, but they are also moral issues and issues the Bible speaks to.

This book looks at America as a great cathedral, 250 years into its construction. But like a cathedral, there’s still plenty of work to do. He uses verses from Isaiah to inspire, notably the one in the title, making crooked places straight.

He takes a more specific look at six crooked places that we need to work toward straightening: poverty, voting rights, money in politics, mass incarceration, gun violence, and climate change – and how the initial impacts are hitting minorities the hardest. All of these discussions come from a place of deep faith.

Here’s where he discusses voting rights:

We are in a rough place right now, fighting to save our fragile democracy. As a man of faith, I often say that I believe democracy is the political enactment of a spiritual idea. It is the notion that each of us has within us a spark of the divine. Therefore, we ought to have a vote and a voice in the direction of our country and our destiny within it.

He explains his use of Isaiah’s writings to write a political book.

Isaiah’s words are so beautiful, so sublime, that they cut right through the hopelessness of a people awash in despair. How we need this kind of bold vision in a moment like our own! The truth is that the partisan and petty rhetoric of politics today is simply too puny a language for the magnitude of the problems we face. Instead, I urge us to look to Isaiah as a lens through which to view the problems that confront us and the possibilities within and around us. The goal of this book is to lay out that vision clearly so that we can work together to build the America that we want to see.

So despite confronting some difficult problems in America today, Senator Warnock writes a book of hope and vision. He makes the reader want to play our part in building a grand and beautiful cathedral formed by “we, the people.” I hope many will read it and be motivated to take action.

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Review of Heronry, by Barbara Herkert, art by Gordy Wright

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Heronry

by Barbara Herkert
art by Gordy Wright

Tilbury House Publishers, 2026. 36 pages.
Review written July 29, 2026, from a library book.
Starred Review

Absolutely no one who follows me on Facebook will be surprised that I love this nonfiction picture book about great blue herons. There’s a small lake (or a large pond) outside my window, and a friendly neighborhood heron can often be found there, hunting. I’m sure it’s a favorite spot for many different herons, but they almost always hunt alone, and I can’t tell them apart. In my thirteen years living in my condo, I have taken thousands of pictures of herons. And I won’t be stopping any time soon. I am, after all, a heron addict.

This book captures the gangly beauty of great blue herons. The setting is a heronry – a nesting site for multiple heron pairs. The male herons arrive first, build up their chosen nests, and then attract females to join them. When the babies hatch, the parents take turns hunting for food for them. After three months, the young herons fend for themselves and the herons are solitary hunters again until breeding season comes around again.

I learned all this by reading this book, while enjoying the wonderful pictures of herons in the beautiful settings of wetlands. (The artist threw in nice sunrises and sunsets as well.)

The author has a simple text that young children can understand on the left side of each spread, with a more detailed paragraph on the right side giving more background facts. Combined with the beautiful illustrations, this book is a delight for heron lovers, and may produce some new ones.

As far as I know, there aren’t any heron nests by my lake – but I do think there are plenty at nearby Great Falls on the Potomac, where I’ve discovered they like to hang out on my birthday in June. However, I will continue to delight in spotting them on their hunting grounds, or rather, hunting waters. And now I know a little more about them and their life cycle.

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