Sonderbooks Book Reviews

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June 12, 2025

Candle Island, by Lauren Wolk, is an amazingly evocative middle grade novel set on an island in Maine about secrets and mysteries and finding folks you can trust.

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund

Nonfiction

Everything Is Tuberculosis

by John Green

March Sisters

by Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley

Children's Nonfiction

Continental Drifter

by Kathy MacLeod

My Antarctica

by G. Neri
illustrated by Corban Wilkin

Fiction

Watership Down

by Richard Adams
read by Peter Capaldi

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

by Heather Fawcett
read by Ell Potter and Michael Dodds

Children's Fiction

Candle Island

by Lauren Wolk

Bad Badger

by Maryrose Wood
read by Chris Devon

Old Favorites

The Blue Sword

by Robin McKinley
read by Diane Warren

Teen Fiction

The Goose Girl

by Shannon Hale
read by Cynthia Bishop and the Full Cast Family

If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

by Jen St. Jude

Teen Nonfiction

The Woman Who Split the Atom

by Marissa Moss

Black Girl, You Are Atlas

by Renée Watson
fine art by Ekua Holmes
read by Renée Watson

Picture Books

A Book of Maps for You

written by Lourdes Heuer
illustrated by Maxwell Eaton III

Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend

by Bob Shea