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Week in Review, October 13th-17th
This week on hbook.com... October Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Julie Berry about If Looks Could Kill + 4 mythical and magical YA novels, 7 good sports novels, and 6 nonfiction picture books about Mother Nature and human nature Calling Caldecott: How Elegant the Elephant...
Five questions for Julie Berry
Julie Berry’s work ranges from light middle grade and picture books to sweeping YA-to-adult crossover historical novels with fantasy elements. Her latest, If Looks Could Kill (Simon, 14 years and up), is one of those historical fantasy novels (with a vengeance — literally). Set primarily in New York’s Bowery in 1888,...
Books mentioned in the October 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Julie Berry If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry; Simon. Mythical and magical Chaos King by Kacen Callender; Tor Teen. Defanged by H.E. Edgmon; Feiwel. The Scorpion Queen by Mina Fears; Flatiron. The Poisoned King by Katherine Rundell, illus. by Ashley Mackenzie; Knopf. Good sports The Big Splash by Angela Ahn, illus. by Julie Kim; Tundra. The Incredibly Human Henson...
From the Editor - October 2025
The November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine has gone to press, with its hopeful, looking-ahead cover image (by Emily Mendoza from The Giving Flower, written by Alda P. Dobbs and reviewed in our Holiday High Notes column). And we’re looking ahead ourselves to a busy fall. On October 25, come see...
Where Mother Nature and human nature meet
In these six nonfiction books, primary and/or intermediate readers can experience how people interact with, benefit from, study, and protect themselves from natural phenomena. For lots more, see the Science tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet by Martha Brockenbrough; illus. by...
Good sports
Football! Soccer! Swimming! Skateboarding! These seven novels ranging from early-to-upper middle grade cover many bases. See the Sports tag in the Guide/Reviews Database for even more. The Big Splash [Julia on the Go!] by Angela Ahn; illus. by Julie Kim Primary, Intermediate Tundra 176 pp. 2/25 9781774882078 $12.99 e-book ed. ...
Mythical and magical
Here are four novels with fantastical elements for middle- and/or high-school readers (and for those looking for Halloween reads, see especially Defanged). You’ll find more at the Fantasy tag in the Guide/Reviews Database, and see also our Five Questions interview with Julie Berry about If Looks Could Kill. Chaos King by...
Newsletter Archives
[See also our Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book archives] 2025 January 2025 Five questions for Jason Reynolds If you LOVE love stories... New year, new stories Black excellence From the Editor February 2025 Five questions for Amy Cherrix Real science Female-focused fiction Need a good laugh? From the...
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