July 2019 Starred Reviews

July 2019 stars tally:

• 786 books published in 2019 have been awarded 1245 starred reviews as of the end of July. 2 books have 6 starred reviews, 8 books have 5 starred reviews, 32 books have 4 starred reviews, 74 books have 3 starred reviews, 173 books have 2 starred reviews, 497 books have 1 starred review.
• No new books with 6 starred reviews; 2 books move up to 5 starred reviews from  4 starred reviews; 2 books move up to 4 starred reviews from 3 starred reviews; 17 books have been added with 3 starred reviews

2019 Starred Reviews

6 starred reviews:  2 books

On the Come Up. Angie Thomas. HaperCollins/Balzer + Bray. 9780062498564. B, BCCB, HB, K, PW, SLJ.
Shout. Laurie Halse Anderson. Penguin Random House/Viking. 9780670012107. B, BCCB, HB, K, PW, SLJ.

5 starred reviews:  8 books – Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me and Other Words for Home move up to 5 starred reviews from 4 starred reviews

Camp Tiger. Susan Choi, illus. by John Rocco. Penguin Random House/Putnam. 9780399173295. B, BCCB, K, PW, SLJ.
The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown. Mac Barnett, illus. by Sarah Jacoby. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray. 9780062393449. B, BCCB, K, PW, SLJ.
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me. Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell. Macmillan/First Second. 9781626722590. B, BCCB, HB, K, PW.
Lovely War. Julie Berry. Penguin Random House/Viking. 9780451469939. B, HB, K, PW, SLJ.
Other Words for Home. Jasmine Warga. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray. 9780062747808. B, HB, K, PW, SLJ.
Pay Attention, Carter Jones. Gary D. Schmidt. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Clarion. 9780544790858. B, HB, K, PW, SLJ.
Two Brothers, Four Hands: The Artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti. Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, illus. by Hadley Hooper. Holiday House/Neal Porter. 9780823441709. B, HB, K, PW, SLJ.
The Undefeated. Kwame Alexander, illus. by Kadir Nelson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Versify. 9781328780966. B, HB, K, PW, SLJ.

4 starred reviews: 32 books – 2 books move up from 3 starred reviews: The Downstairs Girl and Pie in the Sky

¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market! Raúl the Third. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Versify. 9781328557261. BCCB, HB, PW, SLJ.
Another. Christian Robinson. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 9781534421677. HB, K, PW, SLJ.
The Bell Rang. James E. Ransome. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy. 9781442421134. B, HB, K, PW.
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray. 9780062698728. B, K, PW, SLJ.
The Bridge Home. Padma Venkatraman. Penguin Random House/Nancy Paulsen. 9781524738112. B, K, PW, SLJ.
Courting Darkness. Robin LaFevers. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 9780544991194. B, K, PW, SLJ.
Dig. A.S. King. Penguin Random House/Dutton. 9781101994917. B, BCCB, HB, SLJ.
The Downstairs Girl. Stacey Lee. Penguin Random House/Putnam. 9781524740955. B, BCCB, PW, SLJ.
The Gilded Wolves. Roshani Chokshi. Macmillan/St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books. 9781250144546. B, K, PW, SLJ.
Good Boy. Sergio Ruzzier. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 9781481499064. B, HB, PW, SLJ.
How It Feels to Float. Helena Fox. Penguin Random House/Dial. 9780525554295. B, BCCB, K, PW.
Internment. Samira Ahmed. Hachette/Little, Brown. 9780316522694. B, K, PW, SLJ.
Let ‘Er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People’s Champion. Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illus. by Gordon C. James. Lerner/Carolrhoda. 9781512498080. B, K, PW, SLJ.
The Line Tender. Kate Allen. Penguin Random House/Dutton. 9780735231603. B, BCCB, K, PW.
My Papi Has a Motorcycle. Isabel Quintero, illus. by Zeke Peña. Penguin Random House/Kokila. 9780525553410. B, HB, PW, SLJ.
Never Caught, The Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Reader’s Edition. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, illus. by Kathleen Van Cleve. Simon & Schuster/Aladdin. 9781534416178. B, BCCB, K, SLJ.
New Kid. Jerry Craft. HarperCollins/Harper. 9780062691194. B, K, PW, SLJ.
Nine Months: Before a Baby is Born. Miranda Paul, illus. by Jason Chin. Holiday House/Neal Porter. 9780823441617. B, HB, K, PW.
Patron Saints of Nothing. Randy Ribay. Penguin Random House/Kokila. 9780525554912. B, K, PW, SLJ.
Pie in the Sky. Remy Lai. Macmillan/Henry Holt. 9781250314093. B, BCCB, HB, K.
A Place to Belong. Cynthia Kadohata, illus. by Julia Kuo. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy. 9781481446648. B, K, PW, SLJ.
Queen of the Sea. Dylan Meconis. Candlewick/Walker. 9781536204988. B, K, PW, SLJ.
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop. Carole Boston Weatherford, illus. by Frank Morrison. Bonnier/Little Bee. 9781499804119. B, K, PW, SLJ.
Sal & Gabi Break the Universe. Carlos Hernandez. Hachette/Disney-Hyperion/Rick Riordan. 9781368022828. B, K, PW, SLJ.
Spin. Lamar Giles. Scholastic. 9781338219210. B, K, PW, SLJ.
Sweeping Up the Heart. Kevin Henkes. HarperCollins/Greenwillow. 9780062852540. HB, K, PW, SLJ.
This Was Our Pact. Ryan Andrews. Macmillan/First Second. 9781250196958. B, K, PW, SLJ.
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc. David Elliott. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 9781328987594. BCCB, K, PW, SLJ.
We Rule the Night. Claire Eliza Bartlett. Hachette/Little, Brown. 9780316417273. B, K, PW, SLJ.
We Set the Dark on Fire. Tehlor Kay Mejia. HaperCollins/Katherine Tegen. 9780062691316. B, K, PW, SLJ.
When Aidan Became a Brother. Kyle Lukoff, illus. by Kaylani Juanita. 9781620148372. B, K, PW, SLJ.
With the Fire on High. Elizabeth Acevedo. HarperCollins/HarperTeen. 9780062662835. B, HB, PW, SLJ.

3 starred reviews:  74 books – 17 are new so I won’t list them here, but they will be marked *NEW* in the list below

All the Greys on Greene Street. Laura Tucker, illus. by Kelly Murphy. Penguin Random House/Viking. 9780451479532. B, K, PW.
Because of the Rabbit. Cynthia Lord. Scholastic/Scholastic Press. 9780545914246. B, K, PW.
Beware of the Crocodile. Martin Jenkins, illus. by Satoshi Kitamura. Candlewick. 9780763675387. BCCB, PW, SLJ.
Birds of a Feather: Bowerbirds and Me. Susan L. Roth. Holiday House/Neal Porter. 9780823442829. B, K, SLJ.
Bloom Boom! April Pulley Sayre. Simon & Schuster/Beach Lane. 9781481494724. B, K, SLJ.
*NEW* Butterfly Yellow. Thanhhà Lai. HarperCollins/Harper. 9780062229212. B, K, PW.
*NEW* Crossing On Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to the New World. David Macaulay. Macmillan/Roaring Brook. 9781596434776. B, BCCB, SLJ.
Daniel’s Good Day. Micha Archer. Penguin Random House/Nancy Paulsen. 9780399546723. K, PW, SLJ.
Dragon Pearl. Yoon Ha Lee. Hachette/DIsney-Hyperion/Rick Riordan. 9781368013352. K, PW, SLJ.
Eventown. Corey Ann Haydu. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen. 9780062689801. K, PW, SLJ.
Fear of Missing Out. Kate McGovern. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 9780374305475. B, K, SLJ.
*NEW* Fly! Mark Teague. Simon & Schuster/Beach Lane. 9781534451285. B, K, PW.
*NEW* For Black Girls Like Me. Mariama J. Lockington. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 9780374308049. B, PW, SLJ.
*NEW* Frankly In Love. David Yoon. Penguin Random House/Putnam. 9781984812209. B, K, PW.
Genesis Begins Again. Alicia D. Williams. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy. 9781481465809. K, PW, SLJ.
Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story. Lesléa Newman, illus. by Amy June Bates. Abrams. 9781419727474. B, PW, SLJ.
A Good Kind of Trouble. Lisa Moore Ramée. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray. 9780062836687. K, PW, SLJ.
How to Read a Book. Kwame Alexander, illus. by Melissa Sweet. HarperCollins/Harper. 9780062307811. B, K, SLJ.
The Iliad. Gareth Hinds, adapter. Candlewick. 9780763681135. BCCB, PW, SLJ.
*NEW* An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese. Beacon Press. 9780807049396. B, K, SLJ.
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity. Theresa Thorn, illus. by Noah Grigni. Macmillan/Henry Holt. 9781250302953. B, K, PW.
Just South of Home. Karen Strong. Simon & Schuster. 9781534419384. B, K, SLJ.
*NEW* The King of Kindergarten. Derrick Barnes, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton. Penguin Random House/Nancy Paulsen. 9781524740740. BCCB, K, PW.
*NEW* Lalani of the Distant Sea. Erin Entrada Kelly, illus. by Lian Cho. HarperCollins/Greenwillow. 9780062747273. B, K, PW.
Last Bus to Everland. Sophie Cameron. Macmillan/Roaring Brook. 9781250149930. B, K, PW.
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer. Lamar Giles, illus. by Dapo Adeola. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Versify. 9781328460837. B, K, PW.
The Last Peach. Gus Gordon. Macmillan/Roaring Brook. 9781626723504. B, K, PW.
Let Me Hear a Rhyme. Tiffany D. Jackson with Malik “Malik-16” Sharif. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen. 9780062840325. B, K, PW.
*NEW* Let’s Call It a Doomsday. Katie Henry. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen. 9780062698902. K, PW, SLJ.
Little Doctor and the Fearless Beast. Sophie Gilmore. Owlkids. 9781771473446. B, K, PW.
The Little Guys. Vera Brosgol. Macmillan/Roaring Brook. 9781626724426. B, HB, SLJ.
The Lost Girl. Anne Ursu. HarperCollins/Walden Pond. 9780062275097. B, PW, SLJ.
The Magic Flute. Chris Raschka. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/Richard Jackson. 9781481449021. B, K, PW.
*NEW* Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island. Jennifer Thermes. Abrams. 9781419736551. B, K, PW.
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James. Ashley Herring Blake. Hachette/Little, Brown. 9780316515535. B, K, SLJ.
The Moon Within. Aida Salazar. Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine. 9781338283372. K, PW, SLJ.
Mummies Exposed! Kerrie Logan Hollihan. Abrams. 9781419731679. B, K, SLJ.
Music for Mister Moon. Philip C. Stead, illus. by Erin E. Stead. Holiday House/Neal Porter. 9780823441600. B, K, SLJ.
The Next Great Paulie Fink. Ali Benjamin. Hachette/Little, Brown. 9780316380881. K, PW, SLJ.
*NEW* A Normal Pig. K-Fai Steele. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray. 9780062748577. B, K, PW.
Once & Future. Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy. Hachette/Little, Brown/Jimmy Patterson. 9780316449274. K, PW, SLJ.
Operatic. Kyo Maclear, illus. by Byron Eggenschwiler. Groundwood. 9781554989720. B, PW, SLJ.
Ordinary Girls. Blair Thornburgh. HarperCollins/HarperTeen. 9780062447814. B, K, PW.
*NEW* Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun. Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke, illus. by Allen Williams. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen. 9780062414465. BCCB, K, SLJ.
*NEW* Pet. Akwaeke Emezi. Penguin Random House/Make Me a World. 9780525647072. K, PW, SLJ.
*NEW* A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation. Barry Wittenstein, illus. by Jerry Pinkney. Holiday House/Neal Porter. 9780823443314. B, K, PW.
Planet Earth is Blue. Nicole Panteleakos. Penguin Random House/Wendy Lamb. 9780525646570. B, K, SLJ.
The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems. Paul B. Janeczko, ed., illus. by Richard Jones. Candlewick. 9780763681685. B, K, PW.
A Ray of Light. Walter Wick. Scholastic. 9780439165877. B, K, SLJ.
The Runaways. Ulf Stark, illus. by Kitty Crowther. Lerner/Gecko Press. 9781776572335. B, K, PW.
*NEW* Saturday. Oge Mora. Hachette/Little, Brown. 9780316431279. B, K, PW.
*NEW* Side By Side: A Celebration of Dads. Chris Raschka. Phaidon. 9780714878669. HB, PW, SLJ.
Soaring Earth. Margarita Engle. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 9781534429536. HB, K, SLJ.
Spencer’s New Pet. Jessie Sima. Simon & Schuster. 9781534418776. B, K, PW.
*NEW* Stargazing. Jen Wang. Macmillan/First Second. 9781250183873. B, K, PW.
Stone River Crossing. Tim Tingle. Lee & Low/Tu Books. 9781620148235. B, K, PW.
Superlative Birds. Leslie Bulion, illus. by Robert Meganck. Peachtree. 9781561459513. B, BCCB, K.
Sweet Dreamers. Isabelle Simler. Eerdmans. 9780802855176. K, PW, SLJ.
This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality. Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy. Bloomsbury. 9781681198521. K, PW, SLJ.
This Time Will Be Different. Misa Sugiura. HarperCollins/HarperTeen. 9780062473448. K, PW, SLJ.
The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins. Gail Shepherd. Penguin Random House/Kathy Dawson. 9780525428459. B, K, PW.
Viral: The Fight Against AIDS in America. Ann Bausum. Penguin Random House/Viking. 9780425287200. B, HB, SLJ.
Vroom! Barbara McClintock. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 9781626722170. B, K, PW.
The Waning Age. S.E. Grove. Penguin Random House/Viking. 9780451479853. K, PW, SLJ.
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World. Malala Yousafzai with Liz Welch. Hachette/Little, Brown. 9780316523646. K, PW, SLJ.
We Are the Perfect Girl. Ariel Kaplan. Penguin Random House/Knopf. 9780525647102. B, K, SLJ.
We Hunt the Flame. Hafsah Faizal. Macmillan/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 9780374311544. BCCB, B, SLJ.
The Weight of Our Sky. Hanna Alkaf. Simon & Schuster/Salaam Reads. 9781534426085. K, PW, SLJ.
What Is Given From the Heart. Patricia C. McKissack, illus. by April Harrison. Penguin Random House/Schwartz & Wade. 9780375836152. K, PW, SLJ.
White Rose. Kip Wilson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Versify. 9781328594433. B, K, SLJ.
Who Wet My Pants? Bob Shea, illus. by Zachariah OHora. Hachette/Little, Brown. 9780316525213. B, K, PW.
The Wicked King. Holly Black. Hachette/Little, Brown. 9780316310352. B, K, SLJ.
You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks. Evan Turk. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 9781534432826. B, K, PW.
You Must Not Miss. Katrina Leno. Hachette/Little, Brown. 9780316449779. B, K, PW.

For information on titles with one or two starred reviews, please see the spreadsheet.

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