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Review of The Leaving Room
The Leaving Room by Amber McBrideMiddle School, High School Feiwel 224 pp.10/25 9781250908087 $19.99Gospel, this verse novel’s protagonist, is a Keeper in the Leaving Room, a space between life and death where she guides recently deceased children through their final transition. Each Leaver transforms her room with small changes: a...
Week in Review, October 6th-10th
This week on hbook.com... Amber McBride Talks with Roger about The Leaving Room From the September/October 2025 Horn Book Magazine: The Writer's Page: Freedom Braids: The Power of Metaphors in "Liberation Literature" by Monique Duncan From the November/December 2025 Horn Book Magazine: Preview Calling Caldecott: A Forest...
Amber McBride 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 Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group The Leaving Room doesn’t start with much—a girl in a room talking to herself. But I knew, from interviewing Amber McBride about Gone...
Books mentioned in the March 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Cheryl Willis Hudson and London Ladd When I Hear Spirituals by Cheryl Willis Hudson, illus. by London Ladd; Holiday. Engaging with the arts How to Sing a Song by Kwame Alexander and Randy Preston, illus. by Melissa Sweet; Quill Tree/HarperCollins. ARTificial Intelligence by David Biedrzycki; Charlesbridge. Rose Weaves a Garden by Rashin Kheiriyeh; Schwartz/Random. Still Life by Alex London, illus. by Paul...
Poetically told
In these five books — four verse novels and one collection of verse short stories — recommended for middle- and/or high-school readers, poetry expresses what the characters are feeling and experiencing. See also our National Poetry Month coverage for April; the March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine, with its centennial mini-theme...
YA Finds Its Way
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...
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Review of Onyx & Beyond
Onyx & Beyond by Amber McBrideMiddle School Feiwel 224 pp.10/24 9781250908780 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250908773 $9.99“I guess magic ran out / or the city burned too bright / or maybe, I guess the ancestors / in the sky had a different plan.” Onyx, who is Black, carries the weight of the...
Upcoming Horn Book events!
We've got four in-person events coming up over the next month and we hope you'll join us! Tomorrow, October 26, 2024, we'll be at the Boston Book Festival in Copley Square from 10am–6pm. We'll have free magazines, posters, and more to give away at The Horn Book's booth #16...
2023 in review
Photo: Alamy. Belated welcome, 2024! Our year-long centennial celebration means that we'll be doing a lot of reminiscing this year, including our usual annual Horn Book Year in Review. Enjoy this look back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA literature! 2023 ALA Awards coverage May/June...
Black History Month 2024
In commemoration of Black History Month, we'll be featuring articles, speeches, interviews, and reviews from The Horn Book's past year that are by and/or about African American authors, illustrators, and luminaries in the field — one a weekday through the month of February. Last Monday's ALA Youth Media Awards announcement...
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