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Angie Kang’s Our Lake is a quiet, luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the enduring presence of love. When I read Our Lake, I was unexpectedly transported back to the loss of my own father, to summers on a lake in upstate New York; a grief I thought I had made...
In August of 2024, Illinois passed HB 4895, a bill mandating climate education in public high schools by the 2026–2027 school year. Four other states (NY, CA, CT, NJ) already mandate climate education in their schools. Recent surveys, however, show that the majority of U.S. teachers don’t teach climate change...
Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by Deborah Heiligman High School Farrar 336 pp. 9/25 9781250823076 $21.99 e-book ed. 9781250823083 $11.99 Heiligman’s newest work of nonfiction touches on a long list of hot-button contemporary issues: due process, free speech, gender equity, economic inequality, pacifism, prison reform, reproductive freedom,...
Maria van Lieshout's Song of a Blackbird is a harrowing and hopeful story, grounded in historical events, of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. Through expressive illustrations and inventive page layouts, this graphic novel weaves documented and imagined histories; past and contemporary timelines; and several characters' narrative arcs into...
If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry High School Simon 448 pp. 9/25 9781534470811 $21.99 e-book ed. 9781534470835 $10.99 This expansive historical novel with Medusa-inspired fantasy elements features Jack the Ripper, Salvation Army missionaries, and new-made Gorgons in New York’s Bowery, 1888. With two principal viewpoints, Berry alternates between the...
The House That Floated by Guojing; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Random House Studio/Random 40 pp. 9/25 9780593709054 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593709061 $21.99 Guojing (The Flamingo, rev. 11/22; Oasis, rev. 3/25) presents a vivid wordless picture book about a family who lives in a small seaside cabin atop a...
The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest by Lynn Street; illus. by Anne Hunter Primary Quinlin/Peachtree 48 pp. 8/25 9781682636046 $18.99 Most everyone knows that “mighty oaks from little acorns grow,” as the old saw goes, but how many people know that blue jays are integral to their propagation? Street’s...
In Conversation with The Horn Book is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Horn Book Herald. This interview originally appeared in the October 2025 Horn Book Herald. To receive the Herald, sign up here. Sponsored by Horn Book Editor in Chief Elissa Gershowitz: Grownups/authority figures as kids can be mind-blowing to...
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley High School Holt 384 pp. 9/25 9781250328533 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781250328540 $11.99 Lucy Smith knows that someone is following her, and she decides it’s time to leave town. At first she suspects the handsome Potawatomi man who insists on talking to her at...
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