Visually stunning, this picture book biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel is an inspiration to budding writers and illustrators. Many children will identify with Joe and Jerry, quiet misfits absorbed in pulp fiction, comic strips, and movies in a creative world of superheroes. As shy, awkward high school students, the boys were a perfect pair with incredible imagination, Jerry gifted with writing and Joe with drawing. With similar dispositions, the two boys quickly became friends and created “a science fiction story in cartoons” starring a character who fought for justice. Finding it too similar to other heroes of the day, publishers rejected their story...Click here for more of the curledupkids.com review of Marc Tyler Nobleman and Ross Macdonald's Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman. Picture book: Zachary R. Shapiro and Jack E. Davis's We're All in the Same Boat Beginning readers: Eric A. Kimmel and Matthew Trueman's A Picture for Marc (A Stepping Stones Chapter Book: History)   Young readers: Gary Paulsen's Mudshark   Young adult: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' Wyvernhail: The Kiesha'ra, Volume Five   Willow should be a normal, carefree teenager. Instead, she carries around a burden that no one else can understand: she believes that she is responsible for the death of her parents. One rainy night, Willow’s parents had too much to drink and asked her to drive them home. She believes the car accident that killed them was her fault, since she was behind the wheel. Willow has since started at a new school and moved in with her brother and his family. Money is an ongoing problem in the household, and Willow has lost the ability to communicate with her brother on any level beyond the superficial. She believes that he, too, blames her for their parents’ death...Click here for more of the curledupkids.com review of Julia Hoban's Willow.   web reviews For grown-up fiction, nonfiction and speculative fiction book reviews, visit our sister site Curled Up With a Good Book (www.curledup.com)