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Review of Best of All Worlds
Best of All Worlds by Kenneth OppelHigh School Scholastic 256 pp.6/25 9781546158202 $19.99e-book ed. 9781546158219 $19.99One morning, Xavier Oak and his family wake up to find that their weekend lakeside cottage has been moved, with them in it, to a farm without explanation. They eventually determine that they’re trapped within...
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Review of 13 Ways to Say Goodbye
13 Ways to Say Goodbye by Kate FussnerMiddle School Harper/HarperCollins 304 pp.3/25 9780063256989 $19.99In this introspective verse novel, American narrator Nina spends the summer with her aunt in Paris, as her whole family used to do regularly; the visits stopped three years earlier after Nina’s older sister, Lily, died in...
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Review of Dino Poet
Dino Poet by Tom Angleberger; illus. by the authorPrimary Abrams Fanfare 96 pp.3/25 9781419772801 $13.99e-book ed. 9798887072456 $12.59In this graphic novel for primary readers, a dinosaur is trying to shut out nearby roars and write a poem. A frog tries to help, or perhaps to provide distraction, since the dino’s...
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Review of Don’t Trust Fish
Don’t Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson; illus. by Dan SantatPrimary Dial 40 pp.4/25 9780593616673 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593616680 $10.99At the start, this picture book feels like a straightforward primer in both text and illustrations: this animal is a mammal because of these characteristics; this animal is a reptile because of these....
Review of How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects
How Elegant the Elephant: Poems About Animals and Insects by Mary Ann Hoberman; illus. by Marla FrazeePrimary Tingley/Little, Brown 88 pp.3/25 9780316417129 $20.99e-book ed. 9780316584968 $12.99As an introduction by the late Hoberman explains, for this collection she selected favorite poems of hers “about animals and insects” from past books no...
Stories Save Lives and Walter Awards recap
2025 Walter Award winners, honorees, and committee members. L to R: Jolynn Asato, Yasmeen Shorish, Aleksandra (Sasha) Dowdy, Shoshana Flax, Sherri Winston, Eden Royce, June Hur, Ekua Holmes, Renée Watson, Dr. Shanetia P. Clark (vice chair), Jenna Wolf, Jenell Igeleke Penn (chair). Photo courtesy of Dr. Shanetia P. Clark. I...
G-O-T T-O G-O, It’s Almost Passover!
Passover begins Saturday night! For more on the holiday, see the Passover tag on hbook.com and the Holidays--Passover tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. And for a…slightly sillier look at Seders, matzah, and the afikomen, here’s a song commissioned for Parodies for Charities by friends of the Horn Book Sylvie Shaffer...
Auspicious occasions
Purim begins tonight! For more on this Jewish holiday of disguises and deliciousness, see the Holidays--Purim tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. And (hat-tip to Cindy), today is also Bertha Mahony Miller’s 143rd birthday! For more on the Horn Book’s founder, see the Bertha Mahony Miller tag on hbook.com. Happy Purim…happy...
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Review of True Life in Uncanny Valley
True Life in Uncanny Valley by Deb CalettiHigh School Labyrinth Road/Random 416 pp.3/25 9780593708613 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593708637 $10.99Sixteen-year-old Eleanor is obsessed with learning all she can about her birth father, tech mogul Hugo Harrison, who ended his relationship with her mother long before Eleanor can remember. When the opportunity presents...
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