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Review of The House Without Lights

The House Without Lights by Reem Faruqi; illus. by Nadia AlamPreschool, Primary    Holt    40 pp.9/24    9781250907219    $18.99e-book ed.  9781250399564    $11.99A house waits with anticipation for its new family to move in, envious of other houses’ decorations for Christmas, plus Diwali and Hanukkah. But Huda’s family doesn’t put up Christmas lights...
      

Review of Tamales for Christmas

Tamales for Christmas by Stephen Briseño; illus. by Sonia SánchezPrimary    Random House Studio/Random    40 pp.10/24    9780593647813    $18.99Library ed.  9780593647820    $21.99e-book ed.  9780593647837    $10.99Spanish ed.  9780593897515    $18.99Each year, Grandma makes tamales to sell so she can make Christmas magical for her familia. “With masa in one hand, corn husks in the...
      
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Review of We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord

We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord by Garth NixMiddle School    Scholastic    240 pp.10/24    9781339012209    $18.99e-book ed.  9781546109723    $18.99Twelve-year-old Kim and his ten-year-old sister Eila live on an experimental farm where their parents work in an alternative 1975 Australia. One night, on their usual ride to a nearby lake with...
      
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Review of Rougarou Magic

Rougarou Magic by Rachel M. MarshIntermediate, Middle School    Greenwillow    272 pp.9/24    9780063325388    $18.99e-book ed.  9780063325395    $9.99Feliciana Fruge (pronounced “like blue jay”) is starting over. Again. Her family moved from Louisiana to Boston a year ago, but she was bullied at her first school by a girl named Ashley for her...
      

Holiday High Notes 2024

We wish you a loaded bookshelf with snowflake, with dreidel, with elf for gift-giving, or your own self. Some ideas are right here. Here’s our annual list of recommended new and reissued picture books of seasonal and holiday interest. Season’s greetings from the Horn Book staff! Uri and the King...
      

Review of How It All Ends

How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger; illus. by the author Middle School, High School    Greenwillow    304 pp. 8/24    9780063158153    $25.99 Paper ed.  9780063158146    $15.99 e-book ed.  9780063158160    $9.99 In this quick-paced graphic novel, Tara’s runaway thoughts are great when she plays pretend with her baby brother but not so...
      

Boston Book Festival 2024

This year's Boston Book Festival on Saturday, October 26, was a warm (seasonally speaking) and wonderful event. The Horn Book once again had a booth at the Copley Square Outdoor Fair (courtesy of the Boston Globe), where we participated in the festival's Passport to Imagination scavenger hunt program for kids; displayed the...
      

Week in Review, October 21st-25th

  This week on hbook.com... Libba Bray Talks with Roger about Under the Same Stars   From the September/October 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Publishers' Preview: Fall 2024: Katherine Rundell | Jasmine Warga | Codie Crowley   Calling Caldecott: Being Home by Annisha Jeffries The Mango Tree / La mata de mango...
      

The Mango Tree / La mata de mango

I was enamored with The Mango Tree / La mata de mango, written and illustrated by Edel Rodriguez, from the endpapers (an elegant leaf-and-mango pattern that could be a wallpaper pattern). In this wordless picture book, two friends spend their days in the safety and comfort of a backyard mango...
      

Thriller nights

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If you like a little scare with your fiction fare, check out these six books recommended for intermediate and/or middle-school readers. For a thriller with a sci-fi bent, see our Five Questions interview with Tracey Baptiste about Boy 2.0. And for Halloween recommendations for the younger set, see Horn BOO!...
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