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Our world meets fantasy
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...
Honkin' plunger!
Years ago, I read Another Brother to my grandchildren for the first time. Matthew Cordell’s story about Davy, the oldest of thirteen brothers, amused us in part because Davy and his family are sheep. Each of the twelve younger lambs copies everything Davy does, from eating Toot Loops for breakfast...
Publishers' Preview: Fall 2025: Five Questions for Norman Ollestad and Brendan Kiely
This interview originally appeared in the September/October 2025 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Fall 2025, 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 Almost minute-by-minute, Sole Survivor recounts then...
Yuyi Morales 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 Inspired by her own community advocacy for the environment in the Mexican town where she lives, Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner (for Dreamers) Yuyi Morales explores what it can...
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. ...
Mythical and magical
Here are four novels with fantastical elements for middle- and/or high-school readers (and for those looking for Halloween reads, see especially Defanged). You’ll find more at the Fantasy tag in the Guide/Reviews Database, and see also our Five Questions interview with Julie Berry about If Looks Could Kill. Chaos King by...
The Writer's Page: Freedom Braids: The Power of Metaphors in "Liberation Literature"
Children are highly attuned to human emotions, curiously observant, and intuitively responsive to their environments. They begin to form ideas of fairness in early childhood. While they don’t yet understand all the complexities of the world, children are more aware than adults realize and could actually benefit from learning the...
Review of Sea Change
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”...
School stories
These six novels (some in verse), recommended for intermediate and/or middle school readers, tell all kinds of stories set in and around school. See also the Schools--Elementary schools and Schools--Middle schools subject tags in the Guide/Reviews Database, and the July issue of Notes with its back-to-school focus. We Are Not...
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