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Star Sailor: My Life as a NASA Astronaut by Charles F. Bolden Jr. and Tonya Bolden Middle School Candlewick 112 pp. 10/24 9781536216325 $19.99 Charles Bolden credits Ron McNair, NASA’s second Black astronaut, with encouraging him to apply to be an astronaut. Despite having been a Marine pilot and holding...
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Read more by and about some of our Fanfare 2024 authors and illustrators below. Find our at-a-glance Fanfare 2024 booklist here and our newly annotated list here. Picture Books Sophie Blackall Sophie Blackall Talks with Roger A Conversation with Sophie Blackall by Julie Danielson 2019 Caldecott Medal Acceptance by...
Welcome to Fanfare, the Horn Book’s annual best books list! What a way to close out the Horn Book’s centennial year, with our fifty-three (think of it as one per week plus a bonus!) most highly recommended titles. All year long we’ve been exploring the theme of “Past, Present, and...
The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb Middle School, High School Levine/Levine Querido 256 pp. 10/24 9781646144563 $19.99 ebook ed. 9781646144822 $13.99 “On a full moon night, after a day of fasting, the young bride Sorel Kalmans leapt from a window and left her life behind.” Seventeen-year-old Sorel is betrothed to...
Below is Fanfare, a list of the books that the Horn Book editors and reviewers have selected as the best of 2024. The annotated list will be published in the December issue of Notes from the Horn Book (sign up!) and in the January/February 2025 issue of the Horn Book Magazine...
Lost by Bob Staake; illus. by the author Primary Schwartz/Random 48 pp. 10/24 9780593707029 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593707036 $21.99 e-book ed. 9780593707043 $10.99 Many people can relate to the worry that strikes when a pet goes missing. Staake (Bluebird, rev. 3/13) brings empathy, camaraderie, and humor to a familiar experience...
My Daddy Is a Cowboy by Stephanie Seales; illus. by C. G. Esperanza Primary Abrams 48 pp. 6/24 9781419760815 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781647006280 $17.09 A Panamanian American girl and her daddy get up before dawn to ride horses through their town in this atmospheric picture book that celebrates a close...
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Ellen Heck Primary, Intermediate Chronicle 56 pp. 10/24 9781452135144 $19.99 “Cold winter winds rattle your window and the blast of the foghorn weaves into your morning dreams, warning ships away from the rocky cliffs behind you.” In a second-person...
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin Middle School, High School Viking 400 pp. 10/24 9780593527542 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593527566 $10.99 It’s the summer of 1940 in this collaboration between Sepetys (whose historical fiction for older readers includes, recently, I Must Betray You, rev. 5/22) and Sheinkin (primarily...
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