Review of A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping, by Sangu Mandanna

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A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

by Sangu Mandanna
read by Samara MacLaren

Books on Tape, 2025. 9 hours, 53 minutes.
Review written February 23, 2026, from a library eaudiobook.
Starred Review

I think this audiobook was suggested to me after I finished Sarah Beth Durst’s latest. If so, the recommendation was spot-on. This is also a cozy fantasy story with all kinds of feel-good vibes.

At 15 years old, Sera Swan was one of the two most powerful witches in Britain. But she was an outsider because she wasn’t from a long-standing British magical family. So when she uses up her magic to bring her great-aunt back from death, instead of other witches helping her get it back, she’s put in exile from all magic society.

Fifteen years later, Sera is making do with only a tiny bit of magic. She’s running the inn with her great-aunt, protected by the spell she performed as a child – only allowing those who truly need the inn to find it. They’ve assembled a hodge-podge family of sorts – an overeager elderly lady, a young man who works at the Renaissance Fair and calls himself her knight, and Sera’s young cousin Theo who is learning the fundamentals of magic – and letting Sera read the more advanced texts he checks out. And then there’s Clemmie, the witch who turned herself into a fox when a curse backfired. She wants Sera to regain her power and restore her as well.

And now it looks like Sera may be able to restore her power. With the help of the powerful Restoration spell – and the handsome librarian who has shown up at the inn, needing a place for his young sister, who is a witch but is also autistic and doesn’t always follow the rules. But then there’s the matter of figuring out the ingredients of the spell.

This is a delightfully cozy story with a clear progression of tasks for Sera, but some setbacks and plot twists along the way. I found myself loving the assortment of characters at the inn – while hating the villain who is indeed despicable but powerful. I wish I could find my way to this magical inn, but enjoying through the book was perfect.

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Review of Muck and Magic, by Michael Morpurgo

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Muck & Magic

by Michael Morpugo
illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill

Candlewick Press, 2020. First published in the United Kingdom in 2019. 60 pages.
Review written October 23, 2021, from a library book

This sweet little book amounts to an illustrated short story. It’s about a girl named Bonny who dreamed of being an Olympic cyclist. But one day she fell in front of some horses.

That chance encounter pulled at her, and she found herself coming around them again and again. Eventually, through the elderly lady who owns the horses, Bonny discovers a deep love for horses, and for sculpting.

After Bonny takes a job mucking out the stalls, here’s what the owner tells her:

“Where there’s muck there’s money, that’s what they say,” she said with a laugh. “Not true, I’m afraid, Bonny. Where there’s muck, there’s magic. Now that is true.” I wasn’t sure what she meant by that. “Horse muck,” she went on, by way of explanation. “Best magic in the world for vegetables. I’ve got leeks in my garden longer than, longer than . . .” She looked around her. “Twice as long as your bicycle pump over there. All the soil asks is that we feed it with that stuff, and it’ll do whatever we want it to. It’s like anything, Bonny – you have to put more in than you take out.”

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Review of Because of a Shoe, by Julie Fogliano & Marla Frazee

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Because of a Shoe

by Julie Fogliano & Marla Frazee

Alfred A. Knopf, 2026. 32 pages.
Review written February 20, 2026, from a library book.
Starred Review

Ahhhh! This book reminds me tremendously of one of my favorite picture books from when my own kids were young – and I think the book where I discovered that I love Marla Frazee’s illustrations – Harriet, You’ll Drive Me Wild, by Mem Fox, illustrated by Marla Frazee.

Both books feature a similar situation – a mother and a sweet, funny toddler – and the mother eventually losing it. But both books, of course, end with that deep love and connection – despite those moments anyone who’s ever lived with a toddler will relate to.

Julie Fogliano is a poet. So Because of a Shoe is a long poem about a toddler faced with the horror of putting on their shoes when it’s past time to get out the door. And of course the illustrations show the full drama of the situation.

even when. . .
because of a shoe
(a too-tight shoe
a too-loose shoe)
you are screaming
and you don’t want to be screaming
but you just can’t stop screaming

and even when
you are on the floor
and you are flopping
and you don’t want to be flopping
but you just can’t stop being on the floor
and flopping

The pictures change to black and white when things get to imaginary scenarios.

and even when
you are never getting up from the floor

and you will live on the floor

and you will
eat your dinner
on the floor

and you will
go to school
on the floor

and you will grow up
and go to work at an office
on the floor

[There’s more, but you get the idea]

I love all the emotions expressed about the shoe – and then the mother starts reacting.

and even when
i am loud and i am yelling
and i don’t want to be loud and yelling
but i just can’t stop being loud and yelling
because we are leaving
and we are late
and everyone is waiting
and you love those shoes
they are your best shoes
they are your red shoes
they are your favorite red shoes

I think that’s the part that really got me. Yes, we’ve all known a toddler to turn on their favorite things and it doesn’t make any sense and what’s a mother to do?

But yes, it comes to a beautiful resolution. (This is just the beginning of it.)

even then

you are still you
(funny sweet you)
and i am still me
(funny sweet me)
and we are not a shoe
(not the tightest shoe
or the loosest shoe)

And gosh, the loving harmony at the end simply fills me with all the feels.

So, yes, this is for every funny sweet parent who’s ever had a funny sweet toddler in their home – even though they might lose it at times.

Is it actually for the child? I think such a clear depiction of a fraught situation can only shine light on what’s important – how much we love each other no matter what.

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A Sea of Lemon Trees, by María Dolores Águila

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A Sea of Lemon Trees

The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez

by María Dolores Águila

Roaring Brook Press, 2025. 291 pages.
Review written February 17, 2026, from a library book.
2026 Newbery Honor Book
2026 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book
2025 National Book Award Longlist

A Sea of Lemon Trees is a novel in verse about an event that took place in 1930 and 1931, when a school district in California decided to make the Mexican American kids go to a separate “Americanization” school from the white kids.

The Mexican community fought back, with the Mexican embassy hiring lawyers for them. They chose a 12-year-old boy who was a good student, Roberto Alvarez, who was fluent in both English and Spanish, to be the lead plaintiff. This is his story.

I’m quite sure I already read Roberto’s story in a nonfiction picture book. (Sure enough! Google pointed me to the 2021 book by Larry Dane Brimner: Without Separation: Prejudice, Segregation, and the Case of Roberto Alvarez. I even reviewed it, but it was a blog-only review.)

This book is for middle-grade readers, and goes more in-depth, and being fiction, tells us more about how Roberto might have felt. And it gives us more information – telling us about Roberto’s best friend, whose family got deported. Back matter informed me that deportations – even of American-born citizens – are not a new phenomenon.

All these factors [the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and more] led to the Mexican Repatriation, which began in 1929 and continued through 1939. During this time, both Mexican nationals and their American-born children were deported to México, most often without due process, to free up jobs for Americans. This policy was begun by the administration of President Herbert Hoover. The exact number of people forcibly deported is unknown, but estimates range from 300,000 to 2 million, most of them children and American citizens.

By telling us this story from the perspective of a child who was in the thick of it and just wanted to go to school, readers can appreciate how bewilderingly unjust the whole thing was. May it also encourage those readers to stop and think how more modern government actions might feel from the perspective of the marginalized.

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Review of Who Is Government? edited by Michael Lewis

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Who Is Government?

The Untold Story of Public Service

edited by Michael Lewis
read by the authors

Books on Tape, 2025. 6 hours, 43 minutes.
Review written February 19, 2026, from a library eaudiobook.
Starred Review

I listened to this audiobook because the book was on President Obama’s Summer 2025 Reading List. Listening to the audiobook was especially nice because the author of each essay read their own work, and W. Kamau Bell included audio interviews from his research.

This book is about public servants – about people who work for the federal government and the amazing work they do. I live in northern Virginia and many of my friends do awesome work for the government – so I was not surprised. It’s also true that several of my friends had to leave their jobs after Trump devastated the federal work force, so I did find myself wondering how many of the amazing people featured in this book are still employed, doing good for the country and the world.

The premise of the book is to find outstanding federal employees and highlight the good work they do, unbeknownst to most of the country. Michael Lewis asked some great writers to participate, and besides two essays from him, this book includes pieces from Casey Cep, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell.

Some examples of the stories I found super interesting (well, they were all really interesting) were the guy who saved tens of thousands of lives by changing mining regulations and putting an end to roof collapses in coal mines, and the IRS agent who brought down an international human trafficking ring (Can we put him on the Epstein case?), brought a drug lord to justice, and much more. One chapter wasn’t about any one person, but was about the Consumer Price Index – and the tremendous amount of work that goes into it and how important it is. Of course as a librarian, I was especially interested in the chapter that highlighted a worker at the National Archives.

This book can maybe help us recover from the devastation in our government post-Trump? It presents an uplifting vision of government that does good work, that takes care of important work that doesn’t make anyone a profit but touches lives in vitally important ways. This is what – and who – government is supposed to be.

If you live in the United States, I highly recommend this book to be informed about amazing things your government is doing – but also to hear some fascinating stories of good people doing good work.

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Review of The Magician of Tiger Castle, by Louis Sachar

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The Magician of Tiger Castle

by Louis Sachar
read by Edoardo Ballerini

Books on Tape, 2025. 7 hours, 17 minutes.
Review written February 12, 2026, from a library eaudiobook.
Starred Review

Louis Sachar has written a book for adults!

Louis Sachar is the Newbery-winning author of Holes and the Wayside School books, both of which I read before I started writing Sonderbooks. (I do have a review up of his 2010 book, The Cardturner.) From those books, I already knew he’s especially good at intricate, clever plots – and yes, that’s a way this book shines as well.

By the time my hold came in on this audiobook, I’d forgotten it was for adults, and just saw it was a Louis Sachar book. So I was a bit surprised when the main character was a man in his forties. After said main character was surprisingly frank about some bodily functions (nothing crude, just surprising if you thought it was a children’s book) – I remembered it was his first novel for adults.

The book begins with Anatole sipping tea at a cafe in front of a castle that keeps a tiger in the moat. As he talks about what the tour guide is saying to a group, we begin to realize he knows a lot more about the castle than he should. And then he launches into the story of how the first tiger came to the castle in the 16th Century as a betrothal gift to the princess of Esquaveta (which was the small country the castle ruled then) in preparation for the wedding of the century.

Anatole was then the royal magician. He didn’t cast spells, but he was exceptionally skilled at mixing potions. As the wedding approached, Princess Tullia declared that she was not going to marry the prince of a neighboring country because she’d fallen in love with her tutor. The tutor was now in the dungeon, and the king tasked Anatole with making the princess go through with the marriage and saving Esquavita from the neighboring kingdom’s powerful army.

And that’s the story that follows. At first, Anatole simply plans to fulfill the king’s command. He’ll make a potion to make the two lovebirds forget all about each other. But he needs to get close to the prisoner in order to get a heartfelt tear for the potion – and that involves getting to know him. And things get much more complicated than they seem at first.

So this is a fantasy story – Anatole is very good at making potions, and we appreciate all the work and experimentation he puts into making it just right. This is no romantasy – but we do come to care about the princess and the prisoner, and there is definitely a romantic subplot – even if their love must first be thwarted. As I mentioned, this author is particularly good at plotting, and he had me intent on the story every step of the way.

Yes, adults who read and loved Holes as kids are going to love this, too. It’s a completely different story, but it does appeal to the same part of my brain that loves a tightly constructed plot with characters you can’t help but care about.

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Review of The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal, by Ambika Vohra

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The Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal

by Ambika Vohra

Quill Tree Books, 2024. 353 pages.
Review written December 29, 2025, from a library book.
2026 Mathical Book Prize Honor Book, Grades 9-12

Here’s a light-hearted novel about a senior in high school who’s trying to get out of her comfort zone for the sake of her Stanford application.

And of course there’s guy drama. Brian was her best friend in middle school before he moved away. When Aisha got a scholarship to the same private high school Brian attends, he turned out to have become hot. But he also barely acknowledges Aisha’s existence, despite her growing crush. So when the picture in his locker of his girlfriend comes down – and he asks Aisha to the winter formal, she thinks her dreams have come true.

But when she arrives at winter formal, she doesn’t see him anywhere. And then his mother – of all people – calls Aisha to say that Brian is sick with the flu. Aisha flees the festivities, but doesn’t know who to call to get a ride home. Her mother didn’t even know she’d planned to be there with a boy. She’s standing next to a clarinet player from a jazz band who happens to be her best friend’s boyfriend’s grandmother. The grandma is waiting for a promised ride from her friend’s grandson, who hasn’t shown up. So she has some wise words for Aisha about being stood up.

But the grandma doesn’t keep waiting around and calls a cab. Shortly after she leaves, a kid pulls up in a Volkswagen Jetta, apologizes for being late, and tells her to hop in. Clearly he’s mistaken Aisha for the clarinet player, but in the spirit of the advice she’s been given, Aisha hops in.

But before long the story comes out. This guy, Quentin, is a good listener. Since Aisha’s all dressed up, they go for ice cream, and eventually reach a deal: Aisha will tutor Quentin in precalculus, so he won’t fail, and Quentin will help coach Aisha into doing activities outside her comfort zone for the Stanford application and to actually live life. And yes, her goals get transferred to sticky notes.

So that’s the set-up. And yes, it plays out with the reader understanding that Aisha’s got a crush on the wrong guy long before she does. Quentin ends up having a lot more back story than came out at first, and we’ve got friend drama, high school drama, family drama – all in a sweet feel-good story that makes you care about this girl who cares a little bit too much about getting into Stanford. Reading about the things that wake her up is a heart-warming ride with a set of delightful people.

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Review of Talia’s Codebook for Middle School, by Marissa Moss

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Talia’s Codebook for Middle School

by Marissa Moss

Candlewick Press, 2025. 216 pages.
Review written January 13, 2026, from my own copy, purchased via Amazon.com
Starred Review
2026 Mathical Book Prize Honor Book, Grades 6-8

Talia’s Codebook for Middle School is a sequel to Talia’s Codebook for Mathletes, which was our Mathical Book Prize Winner for 2024. This book is eligible for this year’s Mathical Prize, but I’m writing this before our discussion.

We’ve got more journaling goodness. Lots of middle school situations to navigate, and lots of pictures to go with Talia’s musings. I like Talia’s approach to life as codes: For example, the codes of what parents’ expressions mean, the code of how you can tell when people “like” each other, the code of how to lead others without coming across as too bossy.

It is good to read the first book before reading this one, and I think like me you’ll be glad to read more. Talia’s still on a math team, but now it’s a combined team of girls and boys, and her best friend (a boy) is acting like her best friend again. The new team leader is a girl, and Talia feels like she’s Miss Perfect – until she gets to know her better.

Meanwhile, Talia’s parents are putting lots of pressure on her, and she’s worried about the next math team competition – doesn’t want to get her answer wrong again.

Let me just say that I think the math competition portrayed is terrible – most kids answer ONE question each, in a speed competition with a buzzer. When my kids did math competitions in middle school, there were different phases, including one that was a written test with multiple problems and another that gave teams a chance to collaborate and solve harder problems. So much pressure on *one* question would be terrible!

But other than that, I love this portrayal of a girl who loves math – and who learns to make friends with both girls and boys in middle school. I hope there are more to come.

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Review of The Secret Astronomers, by Jessica Walker

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The Secret Astronomers

A Novel in Notes

by Jessica Walker

Viking, 2025. 304 pages.
Review written December 12, 2025, from a book sent to me by the publisher.
Starred Review
2026 Mathical Book Prize Honor Book, Grades 9-12

The Secret Astronomers is, as the subtitle tells us, a novel in notes. The book is a facsimile of an 1888 textbook on astronomy – which someone has started writing in, doing art over the pages, and putting post-it notes in.

At the front of the book we see a note taped in (the tape and note paper are in the image) with this written on it:

Find the oldest book in the Green Bank High School Library. Hidden inside are the secrets that are being left behind forever. If you’re smart enough to figure out the message, then you have a right to know why a small town in the-middle-of-nowhere West Virginia is the center of intelligent life in the known universe.

We come to realize that the art and notes in the following pages are from a girl who’s been forced to move to Green Bank to stay with her grandparents after her mother’s death. The textbook everything’s written over is the oldest book in Green Bank High School Library.

The writer complains about living in Green Bank, where the Internet is forbidden because of the radio telescopes, and talks about what it’s like (with pictures) – when someone else joins the conversation, using Post-it notes instead of writing directly in the book. This new person begins with:

Hey would you PLEASE stop destroying this book? I know these pages are as old as Methuselah, but it’s one of the only astronomy textbooks in our library and I need to reference it for my college application essay.

After that, the two get a conversation going. After some discussion and sharing about their lives, they decide to remain anonymous to each other. They call each other Copernicus and Kepler, and agree that they won’t try to meet in person.

And then we learn about their lives and their Senior years in Green Bank. About their crushes and family drama. But they also slowly solve the puzzles and codes that Copernicus’s mother left behind when she was a high school student in Green Bank, and that involves some clever twists.

Both want to get out of Green Bank – Copernicus to go back to San Francisco to be with her Dad, and Kepler to go to college (still worried about that application essay).

The art on the pages plus the hand-written notes do make this book an amazing reading experience. I’m glad our library doesn’t have the eaudiobook, because this is one I’m glad I experienced visually.

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Review of Adventures in Math, written by Carleigh Wu, illustrated by Sean Simpson

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Adventures in Math

How to Level Up Your Math Game

written by Carleigh Wu
illustrated by Sean Simpson

Kids Can Press, 2025. 80 pages.
Review written January 5, 2026, from a book sent to me by the publisher.
Starred Review
Mathical Book Prize Honor Book, Grades 6-8

I love what the author is doing here. Instead of giving you specific techniques for solving certain math problems, this book tells you how to think about doing math and gives you techniques based on psychological research for approaching math problems successfully.

There are five chapters, each giving a simple principle and busting a myth about math. And short biographies are given of mathematicians whose lives bust the myths.

The first myth is that you have to be born with a math brain to be good at math. The truth is that everyone can work at it to get better, and the author explains a growth mindset. We learn about great mathematicians who didn’t start out good at math.

Next they tackle the myth that you should be able to solve math problems by yourself.

Math is social. It’s better together.

The mathematicians here worked with collaborators. One of the tips in this section is about an interesting study done that if you physically move closer to a problem, it will seem more difficult, but if you take a step back, it will seem easier. This encourages kids to see the big picture.

Another myth tackled is that if you make mistakes, you’re not smart. A whole chapter emphasizes how important mistakes are to help you learn. They give an example of astronauts who need to make zero mistakes in space – so they train in simulations on earth, where they can make lots of mistakes and perfect their techniques. Another example that most kids can relate to is video games. Most kids don’t think they’re bad at video games if they lose a life quickly the first time they play. They keep playing, and get better each time. Other fields – including math – are like that, too.

And there’s much more in this book. There’s discussion of using diagrams to solve problems, thoughts on how there are usually multiple ways to solve math problems, how creativity can help with math problems, and an example of out-of-the-box thinking about a contest to design toilets without plumbing or electricity.

This book makes me think of The Willpower Instinct, except for kids, because it’s about how to think about math in order to get better at doing it. I’d love to give this to a kid who doesn’t think they’re “good at” math.

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