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Review of At the Edge of Lost
At the Edge of Lost by Martha BrockenbroughIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 240 pp.10/25 9781546125020 $18.99e-book ed. 9781546125044 $17.99Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic, Caleb has been averse to change. So when his parents, who work for the State Department, get a new posting in Vietnam, Caleb successfully lobbies to stay in...
A Gift of Dust
Juana Martinez-Neal's debut picture book, Alma and How She Got Her Name, which she both wrote and illustrated, earned her a 2019 Caldecott Honor. In A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet, she continues to explore shapes and textures, bringing the Saharan dust plume of Martha Brockenbrough's text...
Review of A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet
A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet by Martha Brockenbrough; illus. by Juana Martinez-Neal Primary, Intermediate Knopf 40 pp. 5/25 9780593428429 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593428436 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593428443 $11.99 “When a sunbeam slips through a window in a certain slant of light, you can see a...
Publishers' Preview: Spring 2025: Five Questions for Martha Brockenbrough and Juana Martinez-Neal
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Spring 2025, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by In the picture book A Gift...
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Review of To Catch a Thief
To Catch a Thief by Martha BrockenbroughIntermediate Scholastic 256 pp.4/23 9781338818581 $17.99e-book ed. 9781338818598 $17.99Sixth grader Amelia MacGuffin is a worrier. As the eldest of five siblings, she worries about everything from changing the part in her hair to the MacGuffin family’s tight finances. So when the mythically lucky wooden...
Profile of 2022 Newbery Medal winner Donna Barba Higuera
This has been a notorious year of attempts to ban children’s books by authors of color. But 2022 is also the year that Donna Barba Higuera’s middle-grade novel The Last Cuentista won the Newbery Medal. Celebrating a novel that explores stories as a human imperative is the perfect counterpoint to...
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Review of Frank and the Bad Surprise
Frank and the Bad Surprise [Frank and the Puppy]by Martha Brockenbrough; illus. by Jon LauPrimary Levine Querido 64 pp. g4/22 978-1-64614-088-6 $14.99“This was not fair. But it was the way of the world. Just when you think you’ve got it good, someone brings home a puppy.” Narrator Frank, the highly...
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Review of Into the Bloodred Woods
Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha BrockenbroughHigh School Scholastic 368 pp. g11/21 978-1-338-67387-6 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-338-67389-0 $11.99In this fantasy novel with threads drawn from fairy tales (the non-Disney-fied ones, with all the gore, and then some), Albrecht is the king’s son, but his twin, Ursula, is the firstborn, setting the...
Rule Breakers: The Things We Do for Love
The story starts like this. “One time, at orchestra camp…” Maybe this isn’t the kind of rule-breaking you meant, but it’s true. One time at orchestra camp, I met a boy who played the bass like an absolute wizard. I did everything I could to make myself attractive to this...
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