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Review of The Lions’ Run
The Lions’ Run by Sara Pennypacker; illus. by Jon KlassenIntermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/Macmillan 288 pp.2/26 9781250392817 $18.99For Lucas, a young teen orphan living in Nazi-occupied France, resistance seems impossible. When the timid and compassionate boy saves a litter of kittens, he brings them to a deserted stable, where...
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Review of Leeva at Last
Leeva at Last by Sara Pennypacker; illus. by Matthew CordellIntermediate Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 320 pp.3/23 9780063114425 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063114449 $11.99Lonely, neglected Leeva Thornblossom’s greedy parents believe her job is to make them rich and famous. Since this hasn’t happened yet, they require Leeva to follow her Employee Manual and perform...
Sara Pennypacker 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 As we learn below, Sara Pennypacker knew she was not going to write a sequel to her 2016 novel Pax. But now, with Pax: Journey Home, she has. Roger...
Review of Pax: Journey Home
Pax: Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker; illus. by Jon Klassen Intermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 256 pp. g 9/21 978-0-06-293034-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-293037-8 $10.99 It has been a year since the dramatic and emotional events of Pax (rev. 3/16). Peter, now thirteen and estranged from his grandfather, is...
Sara Pennypacker 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 Packed off each day to a recreational program for the summer, Ware, star of Sara Pennypacker’s Here in the Real World, instead sneaks out to find a most unlikely...
Review of Here in the Real World
Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker Intermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 309 pp. 2/20 978-0-06-269895-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-269897-1 $10.99 After his grandmother’s fall derails the family’s summer plans, eleven-year-old Ware’s parents sign him up for the town’s summer rec program. Ware, who loves medieval history and...
BGHB at 50: Clementine by Sara Pennypacker, illus. by Marla Frazee
Clementine, a 2007 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction and Poetry, is a 136-page master class in characterization. Sure, its protagonist is a spunky girl in the grand tradition of spunky girls. But just look at how much we learn about her — at how much is specific to...
Spring 2016 Publishers' Preview: Five Questions for Sara Pennypacker
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2016 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Spring Publishers’ Preview, a semiannual 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 ...
Meet the Dullards
Today we're considering Meet the Dullards by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri. If you haven't had a look at this book yet, do yourself a favor and go find it. It's far from dull.As you can see from the cover, there's something going on here between the text and...
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