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In these nine novels recommended for intermediate and/or middle-school readers, characters from our world meet fantasy elements. You’ll find more at the Fantasy tag in the Guide/Reviews Database, and see also our Five Questions interview with Laura Amy Schlitz about The Winter of the Dollhouse. The Library of Unruly Treasures...
Sea Change by Susan Fletcher High School Amulet/Abrams 352 pp. 6/25 9781419773921 $19.99 e-book ed. 9798887072982 $17.99 Turtle, fifteen, is a Mer; she has both lungs and gills from a not-quite-legal “gen-mod” experiment. Gen-modding to cure disease is par for the course in this near-future world, but “boutique” and “transhuman”...
Return to Sender by Vera Brosgol; illus. by the authorIntermediate Roaring Brook 320 pp.5/25 9781250292186 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250292179 $11.99Brosgol (most recently Plain Jane and the Mermaid, rev. 5/24) pivots from graphic novels and picture books to an illustrated middle-grade novel (finished art unseen). After the death of his father, ten-year-old...
These five young adult novels implicitly or explicitly imagine future versions of our world, and might just give us new lenses through which to view the present. See also our Five Questions interview with E. K. Johnston about Titan of the Stars, the Reality Reimagined series from the May/June Horn...
The author's Horn Book (and other) treasures. Photo: Celia C. Pérez. I keep a storage bin filled with ephemera from my writing life. It is a treasure chest of memories that includes everything from conference badges, event programs, and T-shirts from schools I’ve visited to letters and artwork I have...
The Islamic month of Ramadan is a solemn holiday of fasting, charity, and additional prayer, culminating in the joyous feasting of Eid al-Fitr. Ramadan mubarak to those observing, and Happy Eid! We’d like to call your attention to archived reading suggestions from our friends at KitaabWorld, who used to review...
It’s no secret that children’s books have made and continue to make a lasting impact on those who read them, but children and teens have not restricted themselves to the role of readers only. They have contributed to the canon of children’s literature as authors, too. Who better to tell...
We started our centennial year of mini-themed issues with picture books in the January/February issue, and now end, fittingly, with YA in November/December. It seemed like a natural progression — from “the early years,” as we were calling it, to young adult, with stops at poetry and folklore; nonfiction and...
“Did you know you’re the first Black woman to win the Caldecott Medal?” The morning of the American Library Association Youth Media Awards, my agent, Carrie Hannigan, called to ask me this. We had spoken the night before to celebrate, so this call felt more like a briefing. She was...
In our Book Reviews section, between Fiction and Nonfiction, you can often find reviews of Folklore and/or Poetry. This is an “and/or” because we don’t always have both, and sometimes we have neither. Our coverage tends to ebb and flow, as do the trends in books being published. In our...