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Week in Review, April 28th-May 2nd
This week on hbook.com... April Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: Summer Reading edition: 5Qs for Brian Selznick + a baker's dozen picture books, beginning readers & primary grades, intermediate, middle school, and high school selections — including fiction, nonfiction, folklore, and poetry — all published 2024–2025 and ideal...
Five questions for Brian Selznick
In Run Away with Me (Scholastic, 14 years and up), Brian Selznick brings his signature mix of text and immersive black-and-white drawings to his first book for young adults. Two teen boys meet in 1986 Rome for a summer of mystery, art, and of course, first love. For more romantic recommendations,...
2025 Summer Reading Recommendations
Downpour. © 2025 by Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata. As longtime readers know, pleasure reading is a core value of the hundred-plus-year-old Horn Book, and Summer Reading provides an opportunity to follow that bliss. Or to discover a new type of bliss. Or to have your bliss challenged. We welcome...
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2025 Summer Reading List
Find annotations, interview, and more, here. Picture Books Suggested grade level for all entries: PS–2 Wind Watchers by Micha Archer (Paulsen/Penguin) A Sleepless Night by Micaela Chirif; illus. by Joaquín Camp; trans. from Spanish by Jordan Landsman (Transit) Duckie & Snaps: We Cannot Be Friends by Ame Dyckman; illus. by Tim Miller (Orchard/Scholastic)...
2025 Summer Reading: High School
Picture Books | Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Intermediate | Middle School High School Suggested grade level for all entries: 9 and up Sọmadịna by Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf) Fifteen-year-old Sọmadịna’s beloved twin brother, Jayaike, is stolen away by a sinister figure who aims to consume the twins’...
2025 Summer Reading: Middle School
Picture Books | Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Intermediate | High School Middle School Suggested grade level for all entries: 6–8 Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson (Dlouhy/Atheneum) After the Siege of Boston, thirteen-year-old maid Elsbeth finds herself in a precarious situation when British troops — and...
2025 Summer Reading: Intermediate
Picture Books | Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Middle School | High School Intermediate Suggested grade level for all entries: 4–6 Sea Legs by Jules Bakes; illus. by Niki Smith (Graphix/Scholastic) After third grade, Janey’s family moves onto their schooner to sail the Caribbean islands. Janey befriends...
2025 Summer Reading: Beginning Readers and Primary Grades
Picture Books | Intermediate | Middle School | High School Beginning Readers and Primary Grades Suggested grade level for all entries: 1–3 How Sweet the Sound by Kwame Alexander; illus. by Charly Palmer (Little, Brown) This reverent nonfiction picture-book celebration of African American music begins its tour in...
2025 Summer Reading: Picture Books
Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Intermediate | Middle School | High School Picture Books Suggested grade level for all entries: PS–2 Wind Watchers by Micha Archer (Paulsen/Penguin) Three children experience the invisible power of wind over the course of a year. They begin with a direct question...
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[See also our Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book archives] 2025 January 2025 Five questions for Jason Reynolds If you LOVE love stories... New year, new stories Black excellence From the Editor February 2025 Five questions for Amy Cherrix Real science Female-focused fiction Need a good laugh? From the...
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