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Photo: Bet_Noire/Getty Images. Belated welcome, 2025! We recently closed our next issue, so we finally have time to revisit everything that happened in 2024 — and what an exciting centennial year it was! We always enjoy looking back on the past twelve months in the world of children's and YA...
This week on hbook.com... Gayle Forman Talks with Roger about Not Nothing From the September/October 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Much Ado About Middle Grade by Horn Book editors Calling Caldecott: Welcome to the Calling Caldecott Committee! by Adrienne L. Pettinelli Coretta by Annisha Jeffries Out of...
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 It’s Not Nothing that this book is narrated by a 107-year-old man in a retirement home, and again not nothing that the protagonist is a troubled kid “volunteering” at...
Not Nothing by Gayle FormanMiddle School Aladdin/Simon 288 pp.8/24 9781665943277 $17.99e-book ed. 9781665943291 $10.99Readers learn two things at the beginning of this novel: twelve-year-old Alex did something terrible, and he hates the word opportunity. The word has only come up in the worst moments of Alex’s life, most recently when...
Five Questions for Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Faith Schaffer The Worst Ronin by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, illus. by Faith Schaffer; HarperAlley/HarperCollins. Beyond the ordinary Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest by Isabel Greenberg; Amulet/Abrams. The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko; Amulet/Abrams. The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb; Levine/Levine Querido. Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by...
Intergenerational relationships can have a powerful impact on young people, including the six main characters in these middle-grade and middle-school novels. Grandparents Day is September 8; for slightly younger readers, see the Guide/Reviews Database’s Grandmother Picture Books and Grandfather Picture Books lists. Black Star [Door of No Return] by Kwame...
This week on hbook.com…One year ago we said goodbye to contributor and Friend of the Horn Book Robin Smith, whom Editor in Chief Roger Sutton rightly called “one of the best things to ever happen to The Horn Book.” Read some of her insightful, impassioned writing about children's books, then...
I Have Lost My Wayby Gayle FormanHigh School Viking 258 pp. g3/18 978-0-425-29077-4 $18.99A chance meeting leads to intimate connections for three struggling nineteen-year-olds in Forman’s (If I Stay, rev. 7/09; I Was Here, rev. 1/15) latest novel. Freya is an up-and-coming singer who has lost her voice, to her...
For a handy take-along list of titles, download our printable PDF.Picture BooksSuggested grade level for all entries: PS–2Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes; illus. by Gordon C. James (Millner/Bolden/Agate)Windows by Julia Denos; illus. by E. B. Goodale (Candlewick)How Are You? / ¿Cómo estás? by Angela Dominguez...
Need suggestions for beach reading or books to bring to summer camp? Here are our top ten books for different age ranges — including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry — all published 2017–2018 and ideal for the season. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion.For a...