Review of Nobody’s Girl, by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

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Nobody’s Girl

A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
read by Thérèse Plummer and Gabra Zackman

Books on Tape, 2025. 13 hours, 40 minutes.
Review written January 5, 2026, from a library eaudiobook.
Starred Review

This one was tough to listen to. I decided I wanted to hear it for myself from Virginia’s perspective, and I think I was glad I did – despite gaining some mental images I don’t want to think about.

Knowing that Virginia ended up committing suicide made it all the harder to listen to. On top of that, the book began with her writing collaborator telling us that Virginia strongly indicated that she wanted her book published, but also that Virginia’s marriage was much rockier than she paints in this memoir. I so wanted this girl to get a happy ending! But she ended up living with lots of pain for unrelated reasons (broke her neck after having encephalitis!) – and that makes her story all the harder to hear.

But something Virginia was absolutely firm about – even in emails not long before her death – was she wanted to stand up to powerful people and stop them hurting more young girls. She wanted to help other survivors find their voices.

Her story was the one we’ve heard about – she was essentially a sex slave to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell from age 16 to age 19. And after she was starting to recover, she devoted her life to bringing the powerful to account. With the money she got from Prince Andrew’s settlement, she established a nonprofit, SOAR – Speak Out, Act, Reclaim, for survivors of sex trafficking to reclaim their stories.

Even though the first half or so of the book – while she was still being trafficked – was awful to listen to, I’m glad I heard her story from Virginia’s perspective. That way I won’t imagine that she had any choice in the things she did, even though she wasn’t in chains. I’ve got a new understanding of what “grooming” entails. Since Ghislaine Maxwell was there from the start, 16-year-old Virginia thought what they were asking must be okay. After all, this woman was there joining in. When she started to get up the courage to stop doing what they asked, they showed her a photo of her much-loved little brother at his school – making clear that if she disobeyed or told anyone, they’d do something terrible to him.

Almost more tragic than her time with Epstein was the sexual abuse she got from her father from as young as 8 years old – and that he gave her to one of his friends to do the same. And then she found others who preyed on her as a teenage runaway after time at an abusive camp for troubled teens. So when Epstein and Maxwell started abusing and trafficking her, she almost didn’t know what normal was.

And these were powerful, wealthy people. Virginia doesn’t name some of them – making it clear later in the book that she was afraid what would happen to her family if she did. But so many of the men were never brought to account. (Virginia speaks about the need to remove statutes of limitations for crimes of child sex trafficking, because it takes time for survivors to recover enough to deal with what happened to them.)

On top of that, Epstein was not only interested in sex – he was also interested in power. So the people he brought to his conferences and events weren’t necessarily involved with the sex trafficking. Though Virginia’s pretty clear that anyone who came to his house couldn’t help but notice the naked pictures and naked girls and have strong clues that something was going on.

So this isn’t a book to find out who is or is not guilty. She goes into detail about Prince Andrew, since she had a famous court case with him. She also makes it clear that Ghislaine Maxwell was very much Jeffrey Epstein’s collaborator and coordinator. And her presence was what enticed so many young girls into their clutches. But most of the others to whom she was trafficked aren’t named in the book for the protection of her family. And it’s not clear how many of the other public figures who are named committed sex crimes, and which were there simply because of Epstein’s front as a power broker.

It was finally when Maxwell and Epstein asked her to have Jeffrey Epstein’s baby that Virginia determined to find a way to escape. The thought of her unborn child being controlled by those two evil people was too much for her, even though she had never learned to value her own safety that much.

In the end, I’m glad I listened to the book. I’m proud of Virginia Guiffre for finding her voice and telling her story. I hope it will give hope to other victims of sex trafficking to know they are not alone and help them find their voices. I hope it will deepen the resolve of the nation to bring justice to people who prey on children. I hope it will make powerful people think twice about using and throwing away people they don’t think have power. And I hope it will silence anyone who thinks that a 16- or 17-year-old is anything but a victim when they are used sexually this way. I also hope that Ghislaine Maxwell will go back to a regular prison for her crimes. And that the Epstein files will finally be released to the public to bring the evil out into the light and more powerful people brought to account.

So, yes, I do recommend this book. But be warned that the topic is important but not at all pleasant.

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Review of André, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders, illustrated by Lamont O’Neal

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André

André Leon Talley – A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale

written by Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders
illustrated by Lamont O’Neal

Henry Holt and Company, 2025. 52 pages.
Review written January 7, 2026, from a library book.
Starred Review

I’m not even a little bit interested in high fashion, but this picture book biography got me very interested in a Black boy who was, and who grew up to be editor of Vogue magazine.

André Leon Talley grew up in the Jim Crow south, finding escape from bullying by reading Vogue magazine. His growing up years weren’t easy:

At Hillside High School, where French was his favorite subject, six-foot-six André stood out. His voice, his mannerisms, and his smarts rubbed some bullies the wrong way. They beat him up because of how he looked and who he was.

But a little before the halfway point, we get a spread of André’s plane landing in Paris, and the rest of the book is about his progressive success as a fashion journalist in Paris, beginning as an assistant to Diana Vreeland, former editor of Vogue, and progressing to where he was the editor of Vogue himself and giving fashion advice to Michelle and Barack Obama in the White House.

The joyful pictures make this book special. In every spread, André stands tall above others, and we see his sense of style progress – from a teen dressed more meticulously than his peers to the flowing caftan style he proudly wore as an adult after a visit to Morocco.

I wasn’t too happy with the back matter – I would have liked a timeline to at least know when he was born and died, so I turned to Wikipedia. (1948 to 2022. I also found out his years as editor of Vogue were 1998 to 2013.) But I suppose it’s not a bad thing that this picture book biography made me want to find out more.

And this is another one I encourage you to check out for yourself. André described his own life as a fairy tale, and his joy in that journey shines through these pages.

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Review of The World Entire, by Elizabeth Brown, illustrated by Melissa Castrillón

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The World Entire

A True Story of an Extraordinary World War II Rescue

by Elizabeth Brown
illustrated by Melissa Castrillón

Chronicle Books, 2025. 64 pages.
Review written November 17, 2025, from a library book.
Starred Review

The title of this book is taken from a quotation in the Talmud – “He who saves a single life, saves the world entire.” This book is a picture book biography of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who saved the lives of approximately 10,000 refugees during World War II.

Aristides was a Portuguese diplomat who worked at a consulate in France. When refugees poured into Bordeaux fleeing the Nazis, he was ordered not to give any visas to enter Portugal. After talking with a rabbi and three days of soul-searching, Aristides instead began an assembly line granting visas to everyone.

After the Nazis came to Bordeaux, he went to Bayonne to help make more visas. He even helped refugees find a place to cross the border where those visas would be accepted.

And when he got back home to Portugal, he was arrested for defying orders.

This whole story is dramatized beautifully, with a long author’s note and timeline at the back, giving further details. This book celebrates a man who defied his own government to save people’s lives. He faced many consequences of his actions, but said, “I could not have acted otherwise, and I therefore accept all that has befallen me with love.”

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Review of The Woman in the Moon, by Richard Maurer

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The Woman in the Moon

How Margaret Hamilton Helped Fly the First Astronauts to the Moon

by Richard Maurer

Roaring Brook Press, 2023. 254 pages.
Review written December 15, 2025, from a library book.
Starred Review

It’s always good to read about a female mathematician who excelled in her field. Margaret Hamilton studied math in the 1950s and learned computer programming while working with the meteorologist Edward Lorenz, who discovered the Butterfly Effect in meteorology. Margaret ran his computer simulations at MIT, and later moved to the lab that worked on the computer software that would go into space with the Apollo missions. Margaret, in fact, was the person who coined the term “software engineering” to reflect that writing the computer code was as much a feat of engineering as constructing the wiring – though in fact some of that code was wired into the physical computers.

This book takes us through Margaret’s life as she was consistently the only woman in her field. It goes into lots of interesting detail about the Apollo missions, all that they were up against, and how Margaret was responsible for making the software work. An abundance of relevant photos help keep the text moving, and the whole thing captures the sense of wonder that humans actually made it to the moon – with 1960s technology.

Historians believe a key reason that American astronauts got to the Moon first (Soviet space travelers never got there at all) was America’s lead in computer technology. There were computers at the launch center, computers at Mission Control, computers at the contractors, computers at the tracking stations, and of course the miniature AGC in the spacecraft. Among all these electronic brains, the only computer that never failed was the AGC. In thousands of hours of manned spaceflight, no software errors were known to have occurred. The achievement is unique in computer history. “Nobody can believe it to this day,” Margaret noted.

Margaret was the one in charge of the software for the AGC, the Apollo Guidance Computer, which was in the command modules in flight. This was a behind-the-scenes job, so it’s good to see this entire book about her, giving some much deserved recognition (besides the Presidential Medal of Freedom she got in 2016). Now kids and teens can learn about her accomplishments.

This book is geared to a middle school audience, but there’s nothing in it that would make high school students feel it’s too young for them, so I decided to post this review on my Teen Nonfiction page instead of my Children’s Nonfiction page, even though in the library we have it as a Juvenile Biography. It’s at a much higher level than the many picture book biographies I post on that page. aLearn about the woman who wrote the software that got humans to the moon.

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Review of Making Light Bloom, written by Sandra Nickel, illustrated by Julie Paschkis

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Making Light Bloom

Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Lamps

written by Sandra Nickel
illustrated by Julie Paschkis

Peachtree, 2025. 32 pages.
Review written November 18, 2025, from a library book.
Starred Review

This is another picture book biography that tells us about something a woman did that men got the credit for. (Pass Go and Collect $200, by Tanya Lee Stone, about the woman who invented the Monopoly game comes to mind, but I think I have reviewed others.)

In this case, the woman is Clara Driscoll. She grew up in the country loving gardens and flowers and art. As an adult, she moved to New York City to do more with her art. She got a job at the company of the glassmaker Louis C. Tiffany.

She joined a team of artists who selected and cut glass to create pictures and shapes in windows.

Clara showed great talent, so she was put in charge of a workshop staffed only by women.

She hired both experienced artists and untrained immigrants. And as she and her new Tiffany girls worked, Clara inspired them all by reading poetry about nature.

They continued to make glass for windows until Clara had a moment of inspiration.

Though her work kept her busy, Clara missed the house on the hill and its gardens.

One day she had an idea of how to bring their bright beauty to the city. She sent her sisters a letter and asked for yellow butterflies and wild primroses.

Once they arrived, Clara sketched them. But not as a window, with light coming from behind. As a lamp, with light coming from within.

She worked with the Tiffany girls to cut the pieces and with the craftsmen to form the glass into a lampshade. It took so much time and effort to make, one of the managers told Clara not to make any more.

But then, Louis saw what Clara had created and said it was “the most interesting lamp in the place.” He asked her to make another to display at the World’s Fair in Paris.

When the lamp won a bronze medal at the World’s Fair, she was asked to make more lamps and windows filled with gardens and landscapes and flowers. And Clara was put in charge of lamp-making.

“Tiffany lamps” became wildly popular and very valuable. Because Tiffany’s name was on them, no one knew that they were Clara’s design – until a bundle of her letters to her sisters and mother was discovered after both she and Louis Tiffany had died.

The art in this wonderful book is done in a style that matches the lamps Clara created, with dark outlines around simple shapes, as if made of glass themselves.

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Review of The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice, by Amy Alznauer, illustrated by Anna Bron

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The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice

How to Discover a Shape

by Amy Alznauer
illustrated by Anna Bron

Candlewick Press, 2025. 48 pages.
Review written October 3, 2025, from a book sent to me by the publisher.
Starred Review

Like another book I recently reviewed, Firefly Song, The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice is a picture book biography of a citizen scientist, a woman who made a notable discovery, even though she didn’t have formal training in that field. Marjorie Rice now has a special place in my heart, because in her case, the field was math.

The biography tells us how Marjorie Rice read an article in Scientific American by Martin Gardner and then got captivated with the idea of finding more five-sided convex shapes that tile a plane. And the stellar art by Anna Bron helps make it clear to the reader what this means.

We learn how she was inspired when a new tiling was discovered – to then search for new five-sided shapes of her own that would work. And she went on to find four of fifteen pentagon types that tile the plane. (Years later, other mathematicians found two more, and then another proved that there were no more.)

This amateur mathematician’s life is especially suited for a picture book biography because her work was so visual – and the artist did a great job of using pentagon tilings throughout the book. Back matter not only tells about the pentagon discoveries after Marjorie, they also give the reader great ideas for exploring shapes, tilings, and tessellations further.

I love that this is the story of a housewife with a curious and playful mind (if perhaps a somewhat obsessive one).

Oh look! I’m ready to post this review and looked up the author’s website. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and also teaches calculus and number theory. This makes me feel like she’s a kindred spirit with me, since I have Master’s degrees in Mathematics and in Library Science – not a typical combination. This explains her excellent picture book biographies of mathematicians. I’m going to keep watching for her books.

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Review of Birdlore: The Iridescent Life of Florence Merriam Bailey, written by Jess Keating, illustrated by Devon Holzwarth

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Birdlore

The Iridescent Life of Florence Merriam Bailey

written by Jess Keating
illustrated by Devon Holzwarth

Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. 40 pages.
Review written July 21, 2025, from a library book.
Starred Review

I love it when picture book biographies tell me about a person who lived a remarkable life and changed the world – but whom I’d never heard of before. This is one such book.

In 1889, Florence Merriam Bailey wrote the first field guide to American birds ever published. She talked about the wonders of birdwatching and popularized it for everyone.

This picture book tells her story with gorgeous art – as befitting a book about beautiful birds. (As a bonus, at the back, there’s a spread showing Florence’s favorite bird species and asking if you can find all these birds in the pages of the book.) It begins with her childhood in the countryside, when she would delight in finding them. When she got old enough to study birds as a scientist, she didn’t like the normal method at the time of examining dead birds and making them into specimens. So she would take notes on living birds in the outdoors.

When she went to university, Florence made friends with other women interested in birds and showed them her method of taking notes on birds in the wild. The women were scandalized together at the common fashion choice of the time – wearing dead birds on ladies’ hats.

It began a quest to share with people the wonder of birds in the wild – and helped pass the Lacey Act in 1900 that protected birds from illegal trade.

The way the story is told lifts your hearts with the birds and will add to your own appreciation. A lovely book about a woman who helped protect these lovely creatures.

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Review of Firefly Song, by Colleen Paeff, illustrated by Ji-Hyuk Kim

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Firefly Song

Lynn Frierson Faust and the Great Smoky Mountain Discovery

by Colleen Paeff
illustrated by Ji-Hyuk Kim

Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2025. 40 pages.
Review written September 16, 2025, from a library book.
Starred Review

Firefly Song stands out among picture book biographies for several reasons, the first being that it’s got gorgeous art. I love the picture of the twilight forest dotted with fireflies and the picture of young Lynn Faust jumping into a Great Smoky Mountains swimming hole.

But it’s also wonderful because of the story it tells. Lynn Frierson Faust essentially trained herself as a scientist. As a child, she enjoyed the dazzling display of the synchronous fireflies at her family’s summer cabin.

When she tried to find out more about fireflies (because those were so wonderful), she discovered that scientists believed there were no synchronous fireflies in North America.

But how to let the scientists know they are wrong? She was met with plenty of skepticism.

It took her years of work and plenty of research to get other scientists to come and confirm what she’d realized all along – that a species of synchronous fireflies lives in the Great Smoky Mountains.

The fireflies of Elkmont and their light show are famous now. Each summer, thousands of visitors travel from clear across the world to witness the silent serenade of Photinus carolinus.

There’s nice back matter for those who are intrigued as I was and want to find out more.

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Review of Jim! Six True Stories about One Great Artist: James Marshall, by Jerrold Connors

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Jim!

Six True Stories about One Great Artist: James Marshall

by Jerrold Connors

Dial Books for Young Readers, 2025. 72 pages.
Review written September 3, 2025, from a library book.
Starred Review

The perfect picture book biography exists, and I have just read it!

Jerrold Connors takes six stories that give us the essence of James Marshall’s life, and he relates them with words and art that perfectly mimic James Marshall’s style. The stories even have the punch of a George and Martha story!

I adore the George and Martha books, and this book borrows their format in a brilliant homage to their creator. The stories are numbered, as in George and Martha. They are: “The Book,” about creating Miss Nelson Is Missing with his friend Harry; “How Cute!” about how annoying it was to have his work called cute and his history as a classical musician; “Friendly Competition,” about his friends Maurice (Maurice wears a “Wild Thing” shirt.) and Arnold, who were also writers; “The Award” about how he would have liked to win an award but how his partner Billy reminded him that great art is about putting yourself in your work; “The School Visit” about his second-grade teacher who told him he’d never be an artist and served as the inspiration for Viola Swamp; and “The Hospital,” about how kids will remember him, because kids are really smart.

An Author’s Note ties it all together with more details about James Marshall’s life, but please be aware that my summary doesn’t begin to convey the charm of this book. Anyone who loves George and Martha (and who could possibly not?) will be absolutely delighted with this book.

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Review of Whale Eyes, by James Robinson

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Whale Eyes

A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen

by James Robinson
with illustrations by Brian Rea

Penguin Workshop, 2025. 298 pages.
Review written August 11, 2025, from a library book.
Starred Review

This book will literally change your perspective.

It’s not often that I have to order additional copies of a memoir published for kids because of so many holds, but that happened with Whale Eyes. What a creative and fascinating book! Written by a documentary filmmaker about his own childhood, Whale Eyes shows you what it’s like to have strabismus and exotropia – by playing with the format and illustrations in this book. You’ll be turning the book upside-down and even folding a page. (Do it gently if you’re using a library copy!) And you’ll begin to understand what it’s like to see things through Whale Eyes.

Most people’s brains fuse images from our two eyes. But James was born with eyes that don’t track together – so his brain compensates by alternating which eye he sees out of. And when his brain switches between eyes, that makes the image jump. Which makes reading extremely difficult. Or playing tee-ball – He tells the story of being the first kid the adults had ever seen strike out at tee-ball.

And when people see his misaligned eyes – they don’t know where to look. So they look away. Or they stare, trying to figure out what’s wrong with him. Neither one is good for connecting with people.

So this book is about helping people understand, and telling people where to look – at the eye that’s looking at them – so that we can make connections. He coined the term “Whale eyes” because we can only look at one of a whale’s eyes at a time – yet that doesn’t bother anyone.

There’s a point in the book where he asks the reader to take an intermission and watch a documentary about his condition that he made for the New York Times. I’d provide a link to that video – except watch it as an intermission, after you’ve been prepared, and I think it will hit all the harder.

He finishes up the book with some things he’s learned from making documentaries – things about making connections and catching people’s interests. He brings people together instead of pushing them apart.

This book is written for middle grade kids – but there is no age limit for liking and being fascinated by this book. I pushed a couple of my coworkers to check it out, and I hope this review will get it more readers. It will open your eyes to another way of looking at the world. Literally.

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