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Books mentioned in the May 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Rebecca Stead and Gracey Zhang Anything by Rebecca Stead, illus. by Gracey Zhang; Chronicle. Parents and children Mad at Dad by Janie Hao; Kids Can. Our Lake by Angie Kang; Kokila/Penguin. The Greatest River by Namita Moolani Mehra, illus. by Khoa Le; Harper/HarperCollins. Outside Mom, Inside Mom by Jane Park, illus. by Lenny Wen; Simon. Mama Hug by Emma Straub, illus....
Otherworldly forces
These five novels, recommended for middle- and/or high-school readers, blur the lines between the ordinary and the supernatural. See also the Guide/Reviews Database subject tag Supernatural. The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum High School Harper/HarperCollins 384 pp. 4/25 9780063285835 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063285842 $10.99 High school senior Hollis...
Jewish American Heritage Month
May is Jewish American Heritage Month, a time for "paying tribute to the generations of Jewish Americans who helped form the fabric of American history, culture and society." Books for children and teens "that authentically portray the Jewish experience" can be found at the Association of Jewish Libraries' Sydney Taylor Book Awards....
Reading for Holocaust Remembrance Day
International Holocaust Remembrance Day (established by the United Nations General Assembly) is January 27 and Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, the United States, and other countries) is in April or May (in 2025 it's April 24). All of the following titles were recommended by The Horn Book Magazine and...
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Review of After Life
After Life by Gayle FormanHigh School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 272 pp.1/25 9780063346147 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063346161 $11.99Seven years have passed since seventeen-year-old Amber died in a hit-and-run bicycle accident, so it’s a shock when she walks into her house one afternoon and learns about what happened. She finds that everything has changed...
2024 in review
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...
Week in Review, September 9th-13th
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...
Gayle Forman 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 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...
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Review of Not Nothing
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...
Books mentioned in the August 2024 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
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...
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