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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...
Blustery days
The first day of spring has arrived, but up here in New England that doesn’t always mean we’re seeing all the signs of springtime yet. The “lion” phase of March likes to linger. While the sun may be shining longer, the air still nips at your nose a bit if...
Reviews of the 2025 Printz Award Winners
Winner Brownstone by Samuel Teer; illus. by Mar Julia; color by Ashanti Fortson Middle School, High School Versify/HarperCollins 320 pp. 6/24 9780358394754 $26.99 Paper ed. 9780358394747 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780358393764 $12.99 In this empathetic coming-of-age graphic novel, nearly-fifteen-year-old Almudena reluctantly spends the summer of 1995 with Xavier, her Guatemalan father...
Reviews of the 2025 CSK Author Award Winners
Winner Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds High School Dlouhy/Atheneum 256 pp. 10/24 9781665961271 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781665961295 $10.99 Seventeen-year-old Neon is in his girlfriend Aria’s bathroom, wracked with anxiety because, for the two of them, “tonight is for our first time.” Twenty-four seconds earlier, he...
Reviews of the 2025 Caldecott Medal Winners
Winner Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers; illus. by Rebecca Lee Kunz Preschool, Primary Levine/Levine Querido 48 pp. 10/24 9781646144549 $18.99 Narrator Sissy’s little brother Chooch is two and wants to help. When Elisi (grandmother) paints a mural, Chooch helps. When Etsi (mother) sews pucker-toe moccasins, he helps. When Etlogi...
Review of Star Sailor: My Life as a NASA Astronaut
Star Sailor: My Life as a NASA Astronaut by Charles F. Bolden Jr. and Tonya Bolden Middle School Candlewick 112 pp. 10/24 9781536216325 $19.99 Charles Bolden credits Ron McNair, NASA’s second Black astronaut, with encouraging him to apply to be an astronaut. Despite having been a Marine pilot and holding...
Review of The Forbidden Book
The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb Middle School, High School Levine/Levine Querido 256 pp. 10/24 9781646144563 $19.99 ebook ed. 9781646144822 $13.99 “On a full moon night, after a day of fasting, the young bride Sorel Kalmans leapt from a window and left her life behind.” Seventeen-year-old Sorel is betrothed to...
Review of Lost
Lost by Bob Staake; illus. by the author Primary Schwartz/Random 48 pp. 10/24 9780593707029 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593707036 $21.99 e-book ed. 9780593707043 $10.99 Many people can relate to the worry that strikes when a pet goes missing. Staake (Bluebird, rev. 3/13) brings empathy, camaraderie, and humor to a familiar experience...
Review of Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Ellen Heck Primary, Intermediate Chronicle 56 pp. 10/24 9781452135144 $19.99 “Cold winter winds rattle your window and the blast of the foghorn weaves into your morning dreams, warning ships away from the rocky cliffs behind you.” In a second-person...
Review of The Bletchley Riddle
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin Middle School, High School Viking 400 pp. 10/24 9780593527542 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593527566 $10.99 It’s the summer of 1940 in this collaboration between Sepetys (whose historical fiction for older readers includes, recently, I Must Betray You, rev. 5/22) and Sheinkin (primarily...
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