Today I’m sharing my FOURTH starred review A Scar Like a River, this one from Publishers Weekly. (I told you people were loving this book!)

Oh, did you think I was done sharing starred reviews for A Scar Like a River yet??? Hahaha, no way! This review comes courtesy of Booklist.

Kirby Larson is one of my all-time favorite middle-grade authors, and an all-around lovely human. Her books include Hattie Big Sky (which was a Newbery Honor book, NBD…) and the Audacity Jones books, among many others. So how stoked was I when she agreed to read an early copy of A Scar Like a River . . . and then came back with this incredible blurb???

I feel very, very lucky that so many amazing fellow authors agreed to read and blurb A Scar Like a River ahead of its publication next month. One of those amazing authors was Lindsey Stoddard, whose middle-grade novels include Just Like Jackie and Right as Rain.

That’s right, it’s another starred review for A Scar Like a River, this one from the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books!

You know Sarah Weeks, right? She’s the author of a bajilliondy amazing books for kids, including Pie and So B. It and Save Me a Seat.

Anyway, the point is that Sarah Weeks is a brilliant, talented writer—which is why it was so, so lovely to get this early blurb from her about A Scar Like a River!

A Scar Like a River has gotten tons of early buzz, and I can’t wait to share with you this STARRED REVIEW (!!) from Kirkus!