There was a special touch between the second and third periods of the hockey game between Boston Latin Academy and Archbishop Williams High School at William Devine Memorial Rink last Tuesday night: Stephanie O’Sullivan wasn’t the only girl on the ice as she and dozens of Dorchester Youth Hockey Chiefs walked out for a ceremony to retire her jersey, No. 28. The trailblazer
Blood Red Road meets “The Snow Queen” in this winter-bound Western YA novel following 16-year-old Jorie Harrow, who scavenges dead men outside the Gold Rush town of Shadow Springs, where spring hasn’t come for a generation.
Sunny-Side Up by Jacky Davis, illus. by Fiona Woodcock. Greenwillow, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-06-257307-0. This picture book offers a realistic take on how much emotional stamina can be required to make it through a day gone wrong when the protagonist’s mother leaves for the day.
Paris by Phone by Pamela Druckerman, illus. by Benjamin Chaud. Putnam, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-399-16506-1. Having shown adults the ways of French parenting in 2014’s