A Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga Intermediate Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 320 pp. g10/22 978-0-06-311392-3 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-311394-7 $12.99 Warga ( Other Words for Home , rev. 7/19; The Shape of Thunder , rev. 5/21) imagines a sentient space rover with human emotions who is embarking...
The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 288 pp. g 5/21 978-0-06-295667-5 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-295669-9 $9.99 A dual-perspective novel follows two girls in the aftermath of a school shooting. Almost a year after her older sister was killed in that shooting by a classmate,...
My first job after I graduated from college was as a sixth-grade science teacher. I was woefully ill-prepared for this position — I had limited passion for the subject of science, and even less aptitude. I struggled with everything from classroom management to balancing the seemingly never-ending piles of paper...
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2019 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Spring 2019 Publishers’ Previews, 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 byIn Other Words for Home,...