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Week in Review, November 17th-21st
This week on hbook.com... November Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Laura Amy Schlitz about The Winter of the Dollhouse + 9 novels where our world meets fantasy, 6 YA works with families affected by history, and 5 picture books featuring space adventures Tae Keller Talks with Roger...
Five questions for Laura Amy Schlitz
Laura Amy Schlitz’s imagination has created books ranging from the Newbery-winning verse novel Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! to the multi-award-winning historical YA novel The Hired Girl. Her latest, The Winter of the Dollhouse (Candlewick, 9–12 years), is a doll story — with human and doll points of view. Can’t get...
Books mentioned in the November 2025 Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Laura Amy Schlitz The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz; Candlewick. Our world meets fantasy The Library of Unruly Treasures by Jeanne Birdsall, illus. by Matt Phelan; Knopf. Return to Sender by Vera Brosgol; Roaring Brook. Severe and Unusual Weather by Jessie Ann Foley; Quill Tree/HarperCollins. Into the Wild...
From the Editor - November 2025
From outer space to worlds almost like our own to realities in historical fiction, this issue of Notes offers a variety of settings and journeys. With Five Questions for Laura Amy Schlitz about her thought-provoking and enjoyable sentient-dolls-meet-plucky-and-complex-protagonist novel The Winter of the Dollhouse, there are many great recommendations with which to curl...
Space adventures
In this Notes section, we travel to space — or things from space travel to us. Here are five picture books featuring space aliens, space portals, or imaginative space travelers. For more, see the Space tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. RO-BO by Mariana Ruiz Johnson; illus. by the author; trans....
Families affected by history
In these six works of historical fiction recommended for middle- and/or high-school readers (including prose novels, a graphic novel, and a verse novel), historical events have profound effects on families’ lives. Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley High School Holt 384 pp. 9/25 9781250328533 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781250328540 ...
Our world meets fantasy
In these nine novels recommended for intermediate and/or middle-school readers, characters from our world meet fantasy elements. You’ll find more at the Fantasy tag in the Guide/Reviews Database, and see also our Five Questions interview with Laura Amy Schlitz about The Winter of the Dollhouse. The Library of Unruly Treasures...
Newsletter Archives
[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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