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Letter from the Editor / George Kendall

Adult Nonfiction

High-Demand Hot List • Look for reviews of these high-demand titles in forthcoming issues of Booklist.

Focus on Sci-Tech

Focus on Poetry

Spotlight on the Environment & Sustainability

See the Forest and the Trees • The old saying, “can’t see the forest for the trees,” reminds us that we tend to focus on what’s right in front of us instead of looking at the big picture. Tunnel vision has prevented us from fully recognizing and acting on dire environmental destruction and climate change, and nowhere is this more readily discernible than in our decimation of the planet’s once enormous, thriving forests. These recent books help us clearly see trees and forests as the essential lifesustaining entities they are.

Top 10 Environment & Sustainability Books • The best “green” titles reviewed in Booklist over the last 12 months eloquently and informatively grapple with and elucidate climate change and associated environmental and sustainability issues. —Donna Seaman

Adult Fiction

High-Demand Read-alikes • Funny and Charming Romance Novels

Happy Place.

Youth Nonfiction

Focus on Youth Poetry

Top 10 Novels in Verse • The novel in verse is known not just for the way it combines multiple literary forms but for the accessibility it can grant to struggling readers, the intensity with which they can focus on a single point, and the way limited use of language can enhance and elevate deep and difficult feelings. These 10 current novels in verse, written for YA and middle-grade readers, were selected for their masterful craft and for the especially effective way poetry advances the narratives. —Maggie Reagan

Trade Secrets • Language Learning through Poetry Picture Books

Spotlight on the Environment & Sustainability

Spotlight on the Environment & Sustainability

Top 10 Environment & Sustainability Books for Youth

Trashy Reads to Treasure • Books that repurpose with purpose

Youth Fiction

High-Demand Hot List for Youth • Look for reviews of these high-demand titles in forthcoming issues of Booklist.

Audio

Top 10 Sci-Tech & Environment Audiobooks • Narrators up to the task of conveying complex andintriguing elements of science are rare gems indeed, as these laudable audiobooks display. —Heather Booth

New Sci-Tech & Environment Audiobooks

Focus on Poetry on Audio

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