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Reading for Diwali
In honor of the Festival of Lights, here are some books about the celebration of Diwali along with picture books, fiction, and nonfiction by and about South Asian and South Asian American people. These books for young readers — all recommended at the time of their publication by The Horn...
Good sports
Football! Soccer! Swimming! Skateboarding! These seven novels ranging from early-to-upper middle grade cover many bases. See the Sports tag in the Guide/Reviews Database for even more. The Big Splash [Julia on the Go!] by Angela Ahn; illus. by Julie Kim Primary, Intermediate Tundra 176 pp. 2/25 9781774882078 $12.99 e-book ed. ...
2024: The Year in Words and Pictures
On January 27, 2025, the Youth Media Awards were announced, as usual, during what was long known as the American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference (in recent years: LibLearnX). It seems likely that this was the last wintertime conference in that form. With so much upheaval and uncertainty (e.g., book bans,...
Review of The Strongest Heart
The Strongest Heart by Saadia Faruqi Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 384 pp. 3/25 9780063115859 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063115897 $9.99 Thirteen-year-old Pakistani American Mohammad and his father move from Queens to Houston to stay with his aunt and cousin while his research scientist mother works in a refugee camp in Greece....
Reviews of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction Award Winner and Honor Books
Fiction Winner Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay High School Kokila/Penguin 288 pp. 8/24 9780593461419 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593461433 $10.99 Perspectives in this novel alternate among members of the Maghabol family from four different generations. In 1929, Francisco has recently emigrated from the Philippines to Watsonville, California, where he...
Week in Review, May 19th-23rd
This week on hbook.com... May Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Rebecca Stead and Gracey Zhang about Anything + 6 picture books about parents and children, 5 graphic novels/memoirs for intermediate and middle-school readers, and 5 YA supernatural novels From the May/June 2025 Horn Book Magazine...
Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month." Here are some articles, interviews, and booklists by and about Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islander Americans to help acknowledge, celebrate, and amplify the voices of children's book creators of Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander descent. Also...
May Day
In commemoration of International Workers' Day, or May Day, here are book reviews to amplify the fight of workers and their efforts to secure better working conditions for all. See also author Francisco Jimenez's 1999 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction Award speech for The Circuit plus recommended reading on "the circuit"....
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Review of We Sing from the Heart: How The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
We Sing from the Heart: How The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court by Mia Wenjen; illus. by Victor Bizar GómezIntermediate, Middle School Red Comet 48 pp.10/24 9781636550879 $19.99“We know you / fear change / it’s something / so strange.” Simon Tam, musician and activist,...
Ramadan
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...
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