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Leeva at Last by Sara Pennypacker; illus. by Matthew CordellIntermediate Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 320 pp.3/23 9780063114425 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063114449 $11.99Lonely, neglected Leeva Thornblossom’s greedy parents believe her job is to make them rich and famous. Since this hasn’t happened yet, they require Leeva to follow her Employee Manual and perform...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by As we learn below, Sara Pennypacker knew she was not going to write a sequel to her 2016 novel Pax. But now, with Pax: Journey Home, she has. Roger...
Pax: Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker; illus. by Jon Klassen Intermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 256 pp. g 9/21 978-0-06-293034-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-293037-8 $10.99 It has been a year since the dramatic and emotional events of Pax (rev. 3/16). Peter, now thirteen and estranged from his grandfather, is...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Packed off each day to a recreational program for the summer, Ware, star of Sara Pennypacker’s Here in the Real World, instead sneaks out to find a most unlikely...
Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker Intermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 309 pp. 2/20 978-0-06-269895-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-269897-1 $10.99 After his grandmother’s fall derails the family’s summer plans, eleven-year-old Ware’s parents sign him up for the town’s summer rec program. Ware, who loves medieval history and...
Clementine, a 2007 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book for Fiction and Poetry, is a 136-page master class in characterization. Sure, its protagonist is a spunky girl in the grand tradition of spunky girls. But just look at how much we learn about her — at how much is specific to...
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2016 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Spring Publishers’ Preview, a semiannual advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by ...
Today we're considering Meet the Dullards by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri. If you haven't had a look at this book yet, do yourself a favor and go find it. It's far from dull.As you can see from the cover, there's something going on here between the text and...