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Stand with the Banned: Banned Books Week 2023
It’s Banned Books Week again, and the censorship of books is more dire than ever. From The American Library Association’s website (it's long, but important): Every year, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The...
GTFOH with Magical Headaches: Chronic Pain in YA Fantasy
My medical records show frequent headaches and joint pain from the time I was able to articulate being in pain. When I was seventeen, a neck injury left me with a constant headache and more than fifteen days of migraine each month. It wasn’t until about six months ago —...
Review of Girl on a Motorcycle
Girl on a Motorcycle by Amy Novesky; illus. by Julie Morstad Primary, Intermediate Viking 48 pp. g 9/20 978-0-593-11629-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-11630-2 $10.99 This picture-book biography of the first woman to complete a solo motorcycle trip around the world begins in 1973 Paris. Wishing to see and write about...
Review of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix High School Tegen/HarperCollins 416 pp. g 9/20 978-0-06-268325-0 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-268327-4 $9.99 In an alternate version of 1983 England, eighteen-year-old Susan Arkshaw travels to London to search for the father she’s never known. Almost immediately, Susan encounters dashing Merlin St. Jacques...
Review of The Inkberg Enigma
The Inkberg Enigma by Jonathan King; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Gecko 129 pp. g 9/20 Paper ed. 978-1-776572-66-3 $17.61 In this graphic novel set in and around the fictional contemporary New Zealand fishing town of Aurora, youngsters Miro and Zia witness something they weren’t supposed to: a...
Review of Witches of Brooklyn
Witches of Brooklyn by Sophie Escabasse; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School RH Graphic/Random 240 pp. g 9/20 978-0-593-12528-1 $20.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-11928-0 $23.99 Paper ed. 978-0-593-11927-3 $12.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-11929-7 $8.99 In this lighthearted, sweet, and entertaining fantastical graphic novel, eleven-year-old Effie is (unexpectedly for all parties involved)...
Happy Anniversary: His Dark Materials
2020 marks two milestones for Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy: the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK publication of its first volume, Northern Lights (published a year later in the United States as The Golden Compass); and the twentieth anniversary of the international publication of the third, The Amber Spyglass...
Review of To Dance
To Dance by Siena Cherson Siegel; illus. by Mark Siegel Intermediate, Middle School Atheneum 86 pp. 10/19 978-1-4814-8663-7 $19.99 Paper ed. 978-1-4814-8664-4 $11.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-8665-1 $8.99 Even more effectively than the original, this special edition of the 2006 graphic memoir about Cherson Siegel’s youth as a School of American...
Eerie and uncanny
Starring ghosts, ghost hunters, goblins, and changelings, these new adventures for intermediate and middle-school readers are atmospherically spooky (but not-too-scary) books to snuggle up with on a gloomy fall day. Find more Halloween recommendations in Friday's Horn Book Herald e-newsletter. Mollie sets out to return Guest, a changeling child, to...
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