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Illustration: Liza Woodruff. With Mother’s Day (and my birthday!) just past and Father’s Day coming soon, this issue of Notes features books about families in various configurations and with differing experiences…some supernatural! (Librarians with Superpowers, anyone?) Find more at our Family Reading blog, where Summer Reading also lives; and at Out...
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...
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,...
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)...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
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...