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From the Editor - August 2025

August may be winding down, but we’ve still got plenty of new reading recommendations: summer-set stories for middle-graders-and-up and page-turning (and door-stopping!) tomes for YA readers. See also our annual Summer Reading list and last month’s issue of Notes for back-to-school stories for all ages. For an astounding real-life whale...
      

Page-turning "paperweights"

Looking for a book to get lost in during the waning days of August? One of these seven long, immersive novels for middle- or high-school readers should do the trick. See also our middle school and high school Summer Reading Recommendations. This Ends in Embers [Divine Traitors] by Kamilah Cole...
      

All summer long

If our 2025 Summer Reading Recommendations list isn’t enough for your intermediate or middle-school reader on their way back to school, try one of these six books, all set in the summertime. See also the Seasons--Summer tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. The House of Found Objects [Bea Bellerose Mystery] by...
      

Father's Day 2025

Permit me a moment to give a shout-out to my amazing husband (happy anniversary to us next week!). Though he is generally spotlight-averse, this will nevertheless be a very special weekend for him: not only is he turning 45 on Saturday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!), he'll also be celebrating Father's Day on...
      

From the Editor - May 2025

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...
      

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’...
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