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Preview the 653 new titles (and authors and illustrators) just added to the Horn Book Guide Online, a comprehensive, fully searchable database of over 75,000 reviews. The new reviews will be published in the print edition of the Horn Book Guide in October — but Guide Online subscribers can read the reviews today.

Fiction
  • Preschool
  • Picture Books
  • Easy Readers
  • Younger Fiction
  • Intermediate Fiction
  • Older Fiction

Preschool
1000 Times No
A Garden of Opposites
A Penguin Story
A Small Surprise
A Very Curious Bear
Adios, Tricycle
Bad Frogs
Before You Were Here, Mi Amor
Birds
Boo Hoo Bird
Bubble Trouble
City Animals
Down by the Station
Flip, Flap, Fly!
Flying!
Good Luck Bear
Good Night, Baby Ruby
Harry Hungry!
Higher! Higher!
Hug a Bug
Just like a Baby
Katy Did It!
Kiki's Blankie
Little Chick
Little Oink
Martha Doesn't Say Sorry!
Mommy, Where Are You?
Mouse Was Mad
My Love Will Be with You
Not All Animals Are Blue
Oh, What a Beautiful Day!
Opposnakes
Panda's Easter Basket
Pippa at the Parade
Please Pick Me Up, Mama!
Police Officers on Patrol
Posy
Quiet Bunny
Read It, Don't Eat It!
Rhyming Dust Bunnies
School Bugs
Shape by Shape
Sleepsong
Spot It!
Super Babies on the Move
Ten Days and Nine Nights
The Odd Egg
The Tushy Book
There Are Cats in This Book
This Is the Firefighter
Tillie Lays an Egg
Wee Little Lamb
What's Wrong with My Hair?
When Papa Comes Home Tonight
Wiggling Pockets / Los bolsillos saltarines
Wombat Walkabout
Yummiest Love
Zoo Day !Ole!


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Picture Books
2030
A Book
A Car That Goes Far
A Carousel Tale
A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Friend
A Mighty Fine Time Machine
A Snowman Named Just Bob
Abe's Fish
Adventure Annie Goes to Work
All in a Day
Always
Always in Trouble
Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo
Are You a Horse?
Artichoke Boy
Auntie Tiger
Baby Baby Blah Blah Blah!
Ballyhoo Bay
Being a Pig Is Nice
Bella & Bean
Betsy B. Little
Blueberry Girl
Bobby Bramble Loses His Brain
Bob's Best Ever Friend
Boing Boing
Boo-Hoo Moo
Book Fiesta!
Brava Strega Nona!
Budgie & Boo
Catfish Kate and the Sweet Swamp Band
Celestine, Drama Queen
Chicken and Cat Clean Up
Chicken Butt!
Chicken Cheeks
Chicken Soup
Crazy Hair
Dinosaur Woods
Don't Look Now
Dot in Larryland
Duck! Rabbit!
Edward and the Eureka Lucky Wish Company
El barrio
Emma's Question
Erika-san
Everett, the Incredibly Helpful Helper
Farmer Joe and the Music Show
Feeling Sad
Finding Susie
Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms
Foo, the Flying Frog of Washtub Pond
For You and No One Else
Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully
Froggy's Best Babysitter
Galileo's Leaning Tower Experiment
Garibaldi's Biscuits
Gone with the Wand
Gonzalo Grabs the Good Life
Gorilla Garage
Grandmother, Have the Angels Come?
Harriet's Had Enough!
Hat
Hello My Name Is Bob
Henry's Night
Hook
How Many Cats?
How to Get Married--by Me, the Bride
How to Potty Train Your Monster
How to Raise Mom and Dad
Hugging Hour
Hurry Up and Slow Down
I Need My Monster
I Want to Be Free
If I Were a Jungle Animal
If You Were a Penguin
I'm Your Peanut Butter Big Brother
It's a Secret!
Kiki
Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy
Leaf
Little Goose
Little Swan
Louie!
Love, Splat
Lovey and Dovey
Mabel, One and Only
Maggie's Monkeys
Magic Box
Mama Says
Mama's Kiss
Mermaid Dance
Mighty Casey
Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Noisy Problem
Moon Rabbit
Most Loved in All the World
Mr. Mosquito Put on His Tuxedo
Mungo and the Spiders from Space
Muriel's Red Sweater
My Brother Bert
My Forever Dress
My Goldfish
My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life
My Penguin Osbert in Love
Naomi's Tree
Never Talk to Strangers
Norman and Brenda
Oddly
OK Go
Oliver, the Spaceship, and Me
Once upon a Saturday
Ophelia
Otto Grows Down
Pastry School in Paris
Patricia von Pleasantsquirrel
Paula Bunyan
Peep!
Perfectly Arugula
Pink!
Pippo the Fool
Princess Bess Gets Dressed
Put It on the List!
Puzzlehead
Ready to Dream
Red Sings from Treetops
Roawr!
Ron's Big Mission
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
Scaredy Squirrel at Night
Silly Tilly
Sir Ryan's Quest
Sneezy Louise
Sparrow Girl
Spoon
Squawking Matilda
Stanley's Beauty Contest
Stanza
Stay Away from Rat Boy!
Stuff!
Sugar Would Not Eat It
Swimming Sal
Sylvie
Tacky Goes to Camp
The Birthday Pet
The Christmas House
The Cow That Was the Best Moo-ther
The Curious Garden
The Emperor of Absurdia
The Enemy
The Fiesta Dress
The Girl Who Wanted to Dance
The Great Paper Caper
The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School
The Hat That Wore Clara B.
The Hog Prince
The Imaginary Garden
The Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree
The Missing Chick
The Nine Lives of Rotten Ralph
The Oklahoma Land Run
The One and Only Marigold
The Plot Chickens
The Princess and the Peanut Allergy
The Red Shoes
The Secret Circus
The Three Little Gators
The Three Little Tamales
The Travel Game
The Twelve Days of Springtime
The Underground Gators
The White Ox
The World of Noodoll
There
This Little Bunny Can Bake
Timothy Hubble and the King Cake Party
Tiny & Hercules
Today Is the Birthday of the World
Too Perfect
Toot Toot Zoom!
Tortuga in Trouble
Tricking the Tallyman
Trudy
Tsunami!
Tulip and Lupin Forever
Uncle Arnel and the Swamp Witch
Unexpected Treasures
Violet and Winston
Watch Out for Wolfgang
We're All in the Same Boat
What Can You Do with a Rebozo? / ?Que    puedes hacer con un rebozo?
What Really Happened to Humpty?
When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat
Wilson and Miss Lovely
Wink: The Ninja Who Wanted to Be Noticed
Word Builder
Yes Day!
You?
Yours Truly, Louisa
Yum, Yum! What Fun!

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Easy Readers
Good Dog, Aggie
I Want to Be Somebody New!
Pearl and Wagner
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Younger Fiction
Ava Tree and the Wishes Three
Emmaline and the Bunny
Excellent Emma
Gooney Bird Is So Absurd
Hamlet and the Tales of Sniggery Woods
Ivy and Bean Bound to Be Bad
Just Grace Goes Green
Tom Turkey and Erik Eagle
Underpants on My Head
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Intermediate Fiction
11 Birthdays
A Practical Guide to Faeries
A Recipe 4 Robbery
After the Train
Alien Feast
All the Broken Pieces
Also Known as Harper
Any Which Wall
Anything but Typical
Baseball Great
Best Friends and Drama Queens
Bloodhound
Blue Mountain Trouble
Bone
Bull Rider
Burn My Heart
Carolina Harmony
Clarence Cochran, a Human Boy
Corydon & the Siege of Troy
Counter Clockwise
Crows & Cards
Dandelion Fire
Dessert First
Discordia
Dragon Spear
Dying to Meet You
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love
Escape Under the Forever Sky
Forget Me Not
Fortune's Magic Farm
Gilda Joyce
Gods of Manhattan
Hannah's Winter
Happenstance Found
Heart of a Shepherd
Herbert's Wormhole
Here's How I See It--Here's How It Is
How Oliver Olson Changed the World
I, Lorelei
Jane in Bloom
Jemma Hartman, Camper Extraordinaire
Julia Gillian (and the Quest for Joy)
Lincoln and His Boys
Lost
Lucky Breaks
Lyonesse
Manolito Four-Eyes
Max Quigley
Melonhead
Mr. Wellington
Nana Cracks the Case!
Oath Breaker
Paris Pan Takes the Dare
Peace, Locomotion
Pete's Disappearing Act
Red, White & True Blue Mallory
Return of the Emerald Skull
Scat
Secrets of Greymoor
Secrets, Lies, and My Sister Kate
Shadowland
Simon Bloom, the Octopus Effect
Skellig
Smoke
STORM
Suddenly Supernatural
Sunny Holiday
Sunny Side Up
The 13th Reality
The Amaranth Enchantment
The Baseball Card Kid
The Beef Princess of Practical County
The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
The Black Stallion and the Shape-Shifter
The Brooklyn Nine
The Comet's Curse
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball
The Dog Days of Charlotte Hayes
The Dragon of Trelian
The Eye of the Forest
The Genie Scheme
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
The Last Synapsid
The Lightning Key
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
The Mousehunter
The Potato Chip Puzzles
The Prince of Fenway Park
The Princess and the Unicorn
The Rock and the River
The Search for Vile Things
The Seven Keys of Balabad
The Super Sluggers
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
The Twilight Prisoner
The Year the Swallows Came Early
The Yggyssey
Toby Alone
Top of the Order
Trading Faces
Trouble in Timbuktu
Tumtum & Nutmeg
Waggit Again
We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes
Wicked Will
Winnie's War
World's End

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Older Fiction
3 Willows
A Voice of Her Own
Absolutely Maybe
After the Moment
Along for the Ride
Bad Girls Don't Die
Beautiful Americans
Because I Am Furniture
Being Nikki
Blade
Bloodline
Bones of Faerie
Breathing
Breathless
Broken Soup
Brutal
Camilla
Castration Celebration
Chasing Boys
Chenxi and the Foreigner
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Creature of the Night
Cybermage
Daughter of the Flames
Deep in the Heart of High School
Dirty Laundry
Dope Sick
Ender in Exile
Eon
Eternal
Everything Is Fine
Fade
Far from You
Flygirl
Forever Princess
Fortune's Folly
Fragile Eternity
Gentlemen
Girlfriend Material
Goddess Boot Camp
Heroes of the Valley
Highway to Hell
If I Grow Up
If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?
If the Witness Lied
In Mike We Trust
Jack Tumor
Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
Jumped
Just One Wish
King of the Screwups
Kiss of Life
Kisses and Lies
Look Both Ways
Loserville
Lost
Marcelo in the Real World
Markus and the Girls
Models Don't Eat Chocolate Cookies
Morning in a Different Place
My Fair Godmother
My Parents Are Sex Maniacs
My Vicksburg
Need
Nightfall
No More Us for You
North of Beautiful
Once Dead, Twice Shy
Paisley Hanover Acts Out
Perfect Chemistry
Princess of the Midnight Ball
Punkzilla
Pure
Radiant Darkness
Riding the Universe
Same Difference
Say the Word
Sebastian Darke
Secrets of My Hollywood Life
Seeing Red
Shadowed Summer
Shine, Coconut Moon
Skeleton Creek
Something, Maybe
Sophomore Switch
Sophomore Undercover
Soul Enchilada
Starclimber
Super Stock Rookie
Surface Tension
Suzi Clue
Swoon
Taken by Storm
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Ten Things I Hate About Me
The ABC's of Kissing Boys
The Anatomy of Wings
The Carbon Diaries 2015
The Chosen One
The Diamonds
The Fetch
The Girls
The Guardian
The Heights
The King's Rose
The Musician's Daughter
The Other Half of Life
The Princess and the Bear
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
The School for Dangerous Girls
The Season
The September Sisters
The Singing
The Snog Log
The Sorceress
The Uninvited
The White Witch
This Full House
TMI
Touch
Triple Shot Bettys in Love
Warrior Princess
Wherever Nina Lies
Willow
Wintergirls
Wondrous Strange
You Are Here
You've Got Blackmail
Zenith

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Nonfiction
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Folktales and Nursery Rhymes
  • Science
  •
Technology
  • The Arts
  • Sports
  • Literature
  • Biographies
  • History

Psychology
What's Love?

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Religion
All About Us
Anytime, Anywhere
Built by Angels
Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim
Thank You, God, for Everything
The Animals Came Two by Two
The Donkey's Easter Tale
The Song of Francis
The Story of Queen Esther
This Is the Day!
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Social Sciences
!Fiesta!
After Gandhi
Babies Don't Eat Pizza
Change Has Come
Democracy
Every Human Has Rights
Locked Up
Money Madness
One World, One Day
Planet Animal
Remember Little Rock
The Name Game
What's So Bad About Gasoline?
When Royals Wore Ruffles
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Folktales and Nursery Rhymes
Chicken Little
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Hansel and Gretel
Persephone
Stonecutter
The Beautiful Stories of Life
The Beckoning Cat
Three Gay Tales from Grimm
Three Little Kittens and Other Favorite
   Nursery Rhymes

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Science
A Place for Birds
About Habitats
Alligators and Crocodiles!
Armadillo Trail
Batty About Texas
Beyond
Bird, Butterfly, Eel
Bubble Homes and Fish Farts
Dinosaurs in Your Backyard
Don't Lick the Dog
Down Down Down
Honk, Honk, Goose!
Insects
Living Sunlight
Redwoods
The Stars
Tornadoes!
What Cats Are Made Of
What Darwin Saw
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Technology
Blood and Goo and Boogers Too!
Emily Post's Table Manners for Kids
Food for Thought
Look to the Stars
Moonshot
One Small Step
You Are Weird

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The Arts
A Young Dancer
All God's Critters
Ashley Bryan
Diego
Going, Going, Gone!
Home on the Range
I Heard God Talking to Me
Mozart: The Wonder Child
Oooh! Picasso
The Fabulous Feud of Gilbert & Sullivan
The Mysteries of Beethoven's Hair
What's Inside?

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Sports
Alef-Bet Yoga for Kids
Pele, King of Soccer / Pele, el rey del futbol
Up Close: Babe Ruth
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
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Literature
A Curious Collection of Cats
A Foot in the Mouth
A Mirror to Nature
A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk
Amiri & Odette
Brothers & Sisters
Button Up!
Change-Up
City I Love
Classic Western Stories
Dinothesaurus
Food Hates You, Too and Other Poems
Incredible Inventions
Loose Leashes
More Pocket Poems
My People
Orangutan Tongs
Partly Cloudy
Rhymes Round the World
Rules of the Game
Sopa de frijoles / Bean Soup
Soup for Breakfast
Steady Hands
Tan to Tamarind
The Cuckoo's Haiku
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
The Swamps of Sleethe
The Underwear Salesman
Vacation
What's the Weather Inside?
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Biographies
10 Kings & Queens Who Changed the World
Alfred Nobel
Almost Astronauts
Big George
Charles and Emma
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
Claudette Colvin
Coretta Scott
Cromwell Dixon's Sky-Cycle
Darwin
Eleanor, Quiet No More
Genghis Khan
Leaving Glorytown
Nevermore
Our Abe Lincoln
Our Children Can Soar
Our Country's Presidents
Paul Robeson
Rumi
Teedie
The Anne Frank Case
The Literary Adventures of Washington Irving
The Look-It-Up Book of Presidents
The New Big Book of U.S. Presidents
Up Close: Harper Lee
Up Close: W. E. B. Du Bois
Young Charles Darwin and the Voyage of
   the Beagle


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History
Arab Science and Invention in the Golden Age
Come to the Castle
Heart of Texas
I Spy in the Texas Sky
Keep On!
Listen to the Wind
Pharaoh's Boat
River of Dreams
The Aftermath of the Russian Revolution
The Aftermath of the Sandinista Revolution
The United Kingdom
Three Cups of Tea
Toby Belfer Learns About Heroes and Martyrs
Traveling the Freedom Road
Under Siege!
Written in Bone

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