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Women's History Month 2025, Week 4
March is Women's History Month. To celebrate the accomplishments of women and female-identifying people, we will be highlighting recent recommended books "devoted to the achievements of a diverse gallery of women, heroes every one." Look for the social media tag #HBWomensHistoryMonth on Facebook.com/TheHornBook and @thehornbook.bsky.social on Bluesky as we share...
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Review of True Life in Uncanny Valley
True Life in Uncanny Valley by Deb CalettiHigh School Labyrinth Road/Random 416 pp.3/25 9780593708613 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593708637 $10.99Sixteen-year-old Eleanor is obsessed with learning all she can about her birth father, tech mogul Hugo Harrison, who ended his relationship with her mother long before Eleanor can remember. When the opportunity presents...
Books mentioned in the February 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Amy Cherrix Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike by Amy Cherrix; Harper/HarperCollins. Real science Seeds of Discovery: How Barbara McClintock Used Corn and Curiosity to Solve a Science Mystery and Win a Nobel Prize by Lori Alexander, illus. by Rebecca Santo; Clarion/HarperCollins. Mountain of Fire: The...
Female-focused fiction
In these six novels recommended for middle- and/or high-school readers, girls and women express themselves and help, protect, and uplift one another. March is Women’s History Month; see our Women’s History Month tag. True Life in Uncanny Valley by Deb Caletti High School Labyrinth Road/Random 416 pp. 3/25 9780593708613 $19.99...
Books mentioned in the February 2024 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Dean Robbins and Susanna Chapman The Fastest Drummer: Clap Your Hands for Viola Smith! by Dean Robbins, illus. by Susanna Chapman; Candlewick. Express yourself Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll by Tonya Bolden, illus. by R. Gregory Christie; Harper/HarperCollins. Song After Song:...
Empowering tales
Oppressive patriarchal systems are to everyone’s detriment. The protagonists of these six novels for middle- and high-school readers do what they can to take back their power. See also our Women’s History Month tag and Women’s History Month 2024 coverage. Plan A by Deb Caletti High School Labyrinth Road/Random 416...
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Review of Plan A
Plan A by Deb CalettiHigh School Labyrinth Road/Random 416 pp.10/23 9780593485545 $18.99Library ed. 9780593485552 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593485576 $10.99Ivy, sixteen, is pregnant and scared. In conservative Paris, Texas, she knows she can’t disclose her condition—or her desire to have an abortion, which is illegal in Texas after six weeks. The accidental...
2023 Summer Reading: High School
Need suggestions for beach reading or books to bring to summer camp? Each of our lists — for all age ranges and including fiction, nonfiction, folklore, and poetry — includes thirteen selections (a baker's dozen!), all published 2022–2023 and ideal for the season. Grade levels are only suggestions; the...
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2023 Summer Reading List
Find annotations, interview, downloadable PDF, and more, here. Picture Books Suggested grade level for all entries: PS–2 My Dad Is a Tree by Jon Agee (Rocky Pond/Penguin) Ancient Night by David Álvarez with David Bowles; illus. by David Álvarez (Em Querido/Levine Querido) Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius: A True Story...
Liesa Abrams Talks with Roger
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 by You might guess that a children’s book editor who publishes a lot of fantasy grew up loving the Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Prydain, but Fear...
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