Five questions for Stephanie Graegin
Everyday Bean by Stephanie Graegin; Tundra. 

Reading: the fun starts here
Dino Poet by Tom Angleberger; Abrams Fanfare. 
Bear and Bird: The Cave and Other Stories by Jarvis; Candlewick.
I Want It! by Paul Meisel; Holiday. 
The Bad Idea and Other Stories by Greg Pizzoli; Knopf.
Lone Wolf: Goes to the Library by Kiah Thomas, illus. by K-Fai Steele; Porter/Holiday. 
Lone Wolf: On Vacation by Kiah Thomas, illus. by K-Fai Steele; Porter/Holiday. 
Squid in Pants by Kaz Windness; Simon Spotlight. 

School stories
We Are Not Alone by Katryn Bury; Harper/HarperCollins.
Deer Run Home: A Novel in Verse by Ann Clare LeZotte; Scholastic.  
Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson; Dutton. 
How to Tell a True Story by Tricia Springstubb; Ferguson/Holiday.
Please Pay Attention by Jamie Sumner; Atheneum. 
Happy & Sad & Everything True by Alex Thayer; Aladdin/Simon. 

National Hispanic Heritage Latine/x Heritage Month
It’s All or Nothing, Vale by Andrea Beatriz Arango; Random.
The Summer I Remembered Everything by Catherine Con Morse; Crown. 
Graciela in the Abyss by Meg Medina, illus. by Anna Balbusso and Elena Balbusso; Candlewick. 
Halfway to Somewhere by Jose Pimienta; RH Graphic/Random.
Salvación by Sandra Proudman; Wednesday/St. Martin’s.  
The Girl and the Robot by Oz Rodriguez and Claribel A. Ortega; Disney-Hyperion.
El Niño by Pam Muñoz Ryan; illus. by Joe Cepeda; Scholastic. 
One Last Chance to Live by Francisco X. Stork; Scholastic.

From the September 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.