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March Madness: Pick Your Favorite July/August Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the May/June covers. Next up are the July/August covers. Pick your favorite from each group — let us know your favorites in the comments! Come back next week to see which covers advance to the next round. Read the Cover Madness rules here. Click on any...
Publishers’ Previews
Welcome to The Horn Book Magazine’s Publishers’ Previews, a special advertising supplement that appears in The Horn Book Magazine and allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. The Horn Book has been asking Five Questions of authors...
Reviews of 2017 Mind the Gap Award winners
Not all deserving books bring home ALA awards. Our annual Mind the Gap Awards pay tribute to our favorite books that didn’t win. Here’s how we reviewed our 2017 winners. The Airport Bookby Lisa Brown; illus. by the authorPrimary Porter/Roaring Brook 40 pp.5/16 978-1-62672-091-6 $17.99As an (interracial) family of four...
Reviews of the 2017 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award Winner and Honor Books
Fiction and Poetry Winner The Hate U Giveby Angie ThomasHigh School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 453 pp.2/17 978-0-06-249853-3 $17.99Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter lives a life many African American teenagers can relate to: a life of double consciousness. Caught between her rough, predominantly black neighborhood and the “proper,” predominantly...
Review of Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words
Lion Island: Cuba’s Warrior of Wordsby Margarita EngleMiddle School Atheneum 163 pp.8/16 978-1-4814-6112-2 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4814-6114-6 $10.99In this last chapter in her series of verse novels about the struggle “against forced labor in nineteenth-century Cuba” (The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, rev. 7/06, and...
Review of If I Was Your Girl
If I Was Your Girlby Meredith RussoHigh School Flatiron 290 pp.5/16 978-1-250-07840-7 $17.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-250-07842-1 $9.99After being beaten up in a mall bathroom, eighteen-year-old transgender woman Amanda goes to live with her previously unsupportive father in Lambertville, Tennessee, where no one knows her from her pre-transition life. Though she’s...
Reviews of the 2017 Batchelder Award winners
Winner:Cry, Heart, but Never Breakby Glenn Ringtved; illus. by
Charlotte Pardi; trans. from the
Danish by Robert MoulthropPrimary Enchanted Lion 32 pp.3/16 978-1-59270-187-2 $16.95Four children encounter Death, who has arrived at their country house to claim their beloved grandmother (leaving his scythe outside the door, so as not to frighten...
Reviews of the 2017 CSK Author Award winners
Winner March: Book Threeby John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; illus. by Nate PowellMiddle School, High School Top Shelf Productions 254 pp.8/16 978-1-60309-402-3 $19.99 gThis final volume (March: Book One, rev. 1/14; March: Book Two, rev. 5/15) includes the expected and necessary set pieces from the civil rights movement: the 1963...
Reviews of the 2017 Newbery Award winners
Winner:The Girl Who Drank the Moonby Kelly BarnhillIntermediate, Middle School Algonquin 388 pp.8/16 978-1-61620-567-6 $16.95Every year, the people of the Protectorate steel themselves for the Day of Sacrifice, when the elders take the city’s youngest baby and leave it in the woods to appease the witch — a witch no...
Review of Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn
Goodbye Summer,
Hello Autumnby Kenard Pak; illus. by the authorPreschool Holt 32 pp.8/16 978-1-62779-415-2 $17.99 g“Hello, late summer morning,” says a young girl in a red scarf as she leaves her house on a double-page spread suffused in soft greens. She greets the trees, a variety of animals, flowers, thunder,...
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