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Blowing the Horn: Meeting Mary

Fifteen years ago, I wrote an essay for The Horn Book Magazine, “Brave Orphans, Smelly Boys, and Girls Named Katie.” It began, “I was never a girly girl. But I loved reading about girls” — especially ones who were high spirited and misunderstood, like me. These novels, I explained, got...
      

Publishers' Preview: Books in the Middle: Five Questions for Lisa Yee and Dan Santat

This interview originally appeared in the January/February 2024 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Books in the Middle, 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 by What happens when you...
      
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Review of A Royal Conundrum

A Royal Conundrum [Misfits]by Lisa Yee; illus. by Dan SantatIntermediate, Middle School    Random    288 pp.1/24    9781984830296    $14.99Library ed.  9781984830302    $17.99e-book ed.  9781984830326    $8.99In this series opener, twelve-year-old Olive Cobin Zang is a lonely homebody who feels invisible and uncool. She doesn’t play sports and is only good at things she...
      

Lisa Yee 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   Last seen in this space chatting about Supergirl and Wonder Woman, Lisa Yee returns to talk about Maizy Chen’s Last Chance. Maizy was looking forward to the perfect LA...
      

Review of Maizy Chen's Last Chance

Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee Intermediate, Middle School    Random    288 pp.    g 2/22    978-1-9848-3025-8    $16.99 Library ed.  978-1-9848-3026-5    $19.99 e-book ed.  978-1-9848-3028-9    $9.99 Eleven-year-old Maizy and her mother leave fast-paced Los Angeles to spend the summer in languorous Last Chance, Minnesota. Oma and Opa, Maizy’s grandparents, own Golden...
      

“Say Something Funny”

I went on a date in high school once where I barely knew the guy. In those dinosaur days you couldn’t Google someone, so instead I asked everyone what they knew about this person. Apparently, he did the same. Over dinner my date said, “Everyone says you’re funny. Say something...
      

Lisa Yee 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 byKnown mainly for her expert (and comic) takes on realistic middle-grade life, Lisa Yee moves into superhero territory with the DC Super Hero Girls series, part of...
      

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>Thanks to the Horn Book, Lisa Yee finally got to meet her favorite author....
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