The following books will receive starred reviews in the September/October 2018 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

 

Imagine!; written and illustrated by Raúl Colón (Wiseman/Simon)

A Parade of Elephants; written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)

We Don’t Eat Our Classmates; written and illustrated by Ryan T. Higgins (Disney-Hyperion)

Dear Substitute; by Liz Garton Scanlon and Audrey Vernick; illustrated by Chris Raschka (Disney-Hyperion)

Blue; written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (Porter/Roaring Brook)

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge; by M. T. Anderson; illustrated by Eugene Yelchin (Candlewick)

Finding Langston; by Lesa Cline-Ransome (Holiday)

Louisiana’s Way Home; by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick)

The Season of Styx Malone; by Kekla Magoon (Lamb/Random)

Merci Suárez Changes Gears; by Meg Medina (Candlewick)

The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone; by Jaclyn Moriarty (Levine/Scholastic)

Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground; by T. R. Simon (Candlewick)

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees; written and illustrated by Don Brown (Houghton)

Unpunished Murder: Massacre at Colfax and the Quest for Justice; by Lawrence Goldstone (Scholastic Focus/Scholastic)

Hey, Kiddo; written and illustrated by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Graphix/Scholastic)

Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide; by Isabel Quintero; illustrated by Zeke Peña (Getty)