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Week in Review, February 17th-21st
This week on hbook.com... Bertha Miller's Letters to Hilda van Stockum, 1941–1944 by John Tepper Marlin 2024 Booklists and Resources Master List February Notes from the Horn Book Newsletter: 5Qs for Amy Cherrix about Virus Hunters + 5 nonfiction books about real science, 6 female-focused YA novels for Women's...
Five questions for Amy Cherrix
Amy Cherrix’s meticulously researched page-turner Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike (Harper/HarperCollins, 8–12 years) puts a timely topic in context by examining the important work of epidemiologists in six case studies at various moments in history. For more scientific middle-grade nonfiction, see our list “Real...
Books mentioned in the February 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Amy Cherrix Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike by Amy Cherrix; Harper/HarperCollins. Real science Seeds of Discovery: How Barbara McClintock Used Corn and Curiosity to Solve a Science Mystery and Win a Nobel Prize by Lori Alexander, illus. by Rebecca Santo; Clarion/HarperCollins. Mountain of Fire: The...
From the Editor - February 2025
Who’s got the flu? Here in Massachusetts we’re getting walloped ("Flu virus just won’t quit this year,” says the Boston Globe), making it a particularly good time to read Amy Cherrix’s well-researched and highly compelling Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike and Five Questions interview....
Need a good laugh?
In case you could stand to smile…these six books, recommended for preschool and/or primary readers, are full of giggles and chortles for young readers and listeners and for adult readers-aloud. See also the Humorous stories tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. Silly Boobies: A Love Story by Ame Dyckman; illus. by...
Female-focused fiction
In these six novels recommended for middle- and/or high-school readers, girls and women express themselves and help, protect, and uplift one another. March is Women’s History Month; see our Women’s History Month tag. True Life in Uncanny Valley by Deb Caletti High School Labyrinth Road/Random 416 pp. 3/25 9780593708613 $19.99...
Real science
In these five nonfiction books recommended for intermediate and/or middle-school readers, science is a lot more engaging — and more vital — than mere facts and figures. See also our Five Questions interview with Amy Cherrix about Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike and the...
Newsletter Archives
[See also our Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book archives] 2025 January 2025 Five questions for Jason Reynolds If you LOVE love stories... New year, new stories Black excellence From the Editor February 2025 Five questions for Amy Cherrix Real science Female-focused fiction Need a good laugh? From the...
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