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2020 Booklists and Resources Master List
Booklists and resources on holidays, special events, seasons, social justice...and "mother forking space and time"? We've covered a wide range of topics for all age levels in 2020, so we've compiled them together for readers to find some great new books to enjoy and share. Don't miss out — subscribe...
2020 in review
Welcome, 2021! 2020 was a year no one will soon forget (though in-person Midwinter may be a distant memory). Revisit the past twelve months — is that all it has been?! — and lose yourself in the world of children's and YA literature with our annual Horn Book Year in Review. 2020 ALA Awards...
Week in Review, January 11th-15th
This week on hbook.com... January Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Megan Whalen Turner about Return of the Thief; YA world building; primary animal fantasy chapter books, and intermediate STEM Amra Sabic-El-Rayess Talks with Roger about The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War,...
Books mentioned in the January 2021 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Megan Whalen Turner Return of the Thief [Queen's Thief] by Megan Whalen Turner; Greenwillow. YA world building Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust; Flatiron. How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories [Folk of the Air] by Holly Black, illus. by Rovina Cai; Little, Brown. Daughters...
Intermediate STEM
Hand the following entertaining and informative STEM-focused nonfiction titles to science-minded middle graders. Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math by Jeannine Atkins Intermediate, Middle School Atheneum 320 pp. g 8/20 978-1-5344-6068-3 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-6070-6 $10.99 Atkins’s (Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science, rev. 7/16) latest collective biography in...
Primary animal fantasy chapter books
These recent animal-fantasy chapter books will thrill, educate, and crack up new readers. Willa the Wisp [The Fabled Stables] by Jonathan Auxier; illus. by Olga Demidova Primary Amulet/Abrams 96 pp. g 10/20 978-1-4197-4269-9 $12.99 “At the top of the world sat an island. And at the heart of that island...
YA world building
The following YA titles feature strongly built worlds — some well-known to fans, some brand new — that will sweep readers up with their fantastical details and enthralling adventures. Don’t miss our “Five questions for Megan Whalen Turner,” author of the Queen’s Thief series, which concludes with Return of the...
Five questions for Megan Whalen Turner
Megan Whalen Turner’s The Thief (with that never-to-be-bettered twist at the end!) was published in 1996. Now, after six books set in that unforgettably detailed world, full of political machinations, double crosses, dubious motivations, and familial obligations, the series comes to a close with Return of the Thief (Greenwillow, 12...
Week in Review, January 4th-8th
This week on hbook.com... From the January/February 2021 Horn Book Magazine: Table of Contents Editorial: Happy New Year by Roger Sutton Read Roger: A Note from Me (Jan 8, 2021) Calling Caldecott: If You Come to Earth by Dean Schneider In the Half Room by Sabrina...