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2019 Summer Reading from The Horn Book: High School

Horn Book | Blogs, May 01, 2019

Need suggestions for beach reading or books to bring to summer camp? Here are our top ten books for different age ranges — including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry — all published 2018–2019 and ideal for the season. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion.For a...

2019 Summer Reading from The Horn Book: Easy Readers and Primary Grades

Horn Book | Blogs, May 01, 2019

Spring 2019 Publishers’ Preview: Five Questions for Jasmine Warga

Horn Book, Apr 23, 2019

This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2019 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Spring 2019 Publishers’ Previews, 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 byIn Other Words for Home,...

Earth Day 2019

Horn Book | Blogs, Apr 22, 2019

Today (as every day should be!) is Earth Day, and this year's theme is: "Protect Our Species."The books below celebrate our precious planet, educate about the crises it faces, and offer age-appropriate models for environmental activism. The list includes both fiction and nonfiction titles for a range of ages, all...

David Elliott Talks with Roger

Roger Sutton, Apr 17, 2019

Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.Sponsored byIn 2017's Bull, poet David Elliott reimagined the ancient Greek story of the Minotaur. For Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc, he makes verse drama...

Journeys through grief

Katie Bircher, Apr 09, 2019

Though each of the protagonists of these middle-grade and middle-school stories navigates grief in her or his own way, their paths to healing are all poignant and relatable.In Kwame Alexander's Rebound, the 1988-set prequel to Newbery Medal winner The Crossover, twelve-year-old Charlie Bell is spending the summer with his grandparents...

Preview May/June 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: The CSK Book Awards at 50

Horn Book, Apr 02, 2019

Special Issue: The Coretta Scott King Book Awards at 50 On the cover: original artwork by Kadir Nelson, a gatefold portrait of Coretta Scott King. Editorial page by special guests Rudine Sims Bishop and Andrea Davis Pinkney. A welcome letter from Claudette S. McLinn, current Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee Chair."Let Our Rejoicing...

Review of The Great Indoors

Julie Danielson, Apr 01, 2019

The Great Indoorsby Julie Falatko; illus. by Ruth ChanPrimary Disney-Hyperion 40 pp. g4/19 978-1-368-00083-3 $17.99The tables are turned in this mischievous comedy about the highs and lows of camping. As a camper van full of humans drives away from a house, two bears in the front yard come out of...

Review of Dig.

Jennifer Hubert Swan, Mar 26, 2019

Dig.by A.S. KingHigh School Dutton 394 pp. g3/19 978-1-101-99491-7 $17.99David has never met his father and is tired of constantly moving around with his mom. Malcolm has already lost his mother and is about to lose his beloved father to cancer. Katie deals drugs out of a fast-food drive-thru window...

Review of Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump

Jonathan Hunt, Mar 20, 2019

Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trumpby Martha BrockenbroughMiddle School, High School Feiwel 416 pp.11/18 978-1-250-30803-0 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-250-30804-7 $9.99Brockenbrough opens her critical biography of Donald Trump with a sampling of events leading up to the surprising (to most) results of the 2016 presidential election. She then takes readers back to...

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