Fiction and Poetry Winner All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir High School Razorbill/Penguin 384 pp. g 3/22 978-0-593-20234-0 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-20235-7 $10.99 In this stark and searing sort-of love story, two Pakistani American teens living in a California desert town struggle to choose connection over isolation when family crises...
Picture Book Winner Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Jason Griffin Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 384 pp. g 1/22 978-1-5344-3946-7 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-3947-4 $10.99 Reynolds’s introspective narrative poem, with a young man at home during quarantine as its speaker, shares the stage with Griffin’s emotive collagelike...
Nonfiction Winner Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert Middle School, High School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 224 pp. g 10/21 978-0-06-305666-4 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-305668-8 $9.99 On May 30, 1921 — just over one hundred years ago — a...
On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 12 pm EDT, Horn Book acting editor in chief Elissa Gershowitz announced the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners. If you want to relive the excitement, you can watch the archived video here: 2022 BOSTON GLOBE–HORN BOOK AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED Prestigious...
2021 Fiction & Poetry A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia (Quill Tree/HarperCollins) Honor Books: Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam, illus. by Omar T. Pasha (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins); Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Dial) Nonfiction From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent...
We've reached the culmination of Fiction and Poetry week in our month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration. Today, judge Nicholl Denice Montgomery introduces the 2021 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Winner A Sitting in St. James: The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented...
Fiction and Poetry week continues in our month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration. Today, judge Nicholl Denice Montgomery introduces the 2021 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Book Punching the Air: The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to authors Ibi...
Roger Sutton, editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., announced the 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winners on June 23rd, 2021. You can watch the announcement video here and read the press release here. Read reviews of all of the 2021 Fiction and Poetry winners here; see below for more...
Welcome to Fiction and Poetry week in our month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration. Today, judge Nicholl Denice Montgomery introduces the 2021 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Book Fighting Words: The 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to Kimberly Brubaker...
We've reached the culmination of Nonfiction week in our month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration. Today, judge Shoshana Flax introduces the 2021 BGHB Nonfiction Winner From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement: The...