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Review of (S)Kin
(S)Kin by Ibi ZoboiHigh School Versify/HarperCollins 400 pp.2/25 9780062888877 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062888891 $10.99In this verse novel with a basis in Caribbean folklore, fifteen-year-old Marisol and her mother, Lourdes, have recently emigrated from the Caribbean to Brooklyn. The two are soucouyant, shapeshifting “monsters” who shed their skin during the new moon...
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Review of The Trouble with Heroes
The Trouble with Heroes by Kate MessnerMiddle School Bloomsbury 288 pp.4/25 9781547616398 $17.99e-book ed. 9781547616404 $12.59When seventh grader Finn Connelly is caught on a surveillance camera kicking over a headstone in a local Lake Placid cemetery, little does he know it was the grave of Edna Grace Thomas, “Queen of...
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Review of Breath of the Dragon
Breath of the Dragon [Breathmarked]by Shannon Lee and Fonda LeeHigh School Wednesday/St. Martin’s 352 pp.1/25 9781250391148 $21.00e-book ed. 9781250902689 $11.99Honor, family, respect, ambition—familiar values are embedded in this Chinese-inspired fantasy set in a world with a long, winding Snake Wall separating East and West. Some children are “breathmarked,” born with...
Female-focused fiction
In these six novels recommended for middle- and/or high-school readers, girls and women express themselves and help, protect, and uplift one another. March is Women’s History Month; see our Women’s History Month tag. True Life in Uncanny Valley by Deb Caletti High School Labyrinth Road/Random 416 pp. 3/25 9780593708613 $19.99...
Rez Ball: Byron Graves's 2024 BGHB Fiction Honor Speech
When a writer is at a loss for words, you know something magical, meaningful, and surreal has occurred. When I heard Rez Ball had won a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, I had to pinch myself. As a kid from a small reservation in rural northern Minnesota, things of this nature...
Review of Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery
Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery by Christine Mari; illus. by the author High School LB Ink/Little, Brown 304 pp. 10/24 9780316416658 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780316416726 $17.99 e-book ed. 9780316416825 $9.99 A Japanese American author-illustrator describes her inner journey to find herself while taking an actual journey to Japan....
Review of Beti and the Little Round House
Beti and the Little Round House by Atinuke; illus. by Emily Hughes Primary Candlewick 128 pp. 10/24 9781536225181 $18.99 Fans of Atinuke’s beloved chapter-book series know that Anna Hibiscus “lives in Africa. Amazing Africa” and Too-Small Tola “lives in Lagos, unbelievable Lagos.” Now we meet protagonist Beti, who lives with...
Do You Remember?: Sydney Smith's 2024 BGHB Picture Book Award Speech
I am deeply honored to receive this award. I feel profoundly grateful to the committee for recognizing this book. It has been an arduous journey that I would have thought impossible were it not for my editor, Neal Porter. At times like these, it feels appropriate to look closely at...
Ode to a Bad Day: Hyewon Yum's 2024 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech
My sincere thanks to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards committee for this honor. When the award was announced in June, the news of this recognition spread to Korea, and my picture was in the newspaper my parents read. So my father, who hadn’t really read a single picture book in...
Happy Lunar New Year!
Lunar New Year begins today. Happy Year of the Snake! We wish all who are celebrating a new year full of joy and prosperity. Here is our Lunar New Year reading list with fiction and nonfiction books featuring the holiday for preschool, primary, intermediate, and older readers; and don't miss...
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