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Reviews of 2024 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 2023 winners. Let’s Go! [I Like to Read: Comics] by Michael Emberley; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Holiday 40 pp. 1/23 ...
March Madness: Pick Your Favorite November/December Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the September/October covers. Next up are the November/December 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...
Reviews of the 2024 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction Award Winner and Honor Books
Fiction Winner Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 192 pp. 10/23 9780399545467 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780399545481 $10.99 Sage Durham, a basketball-obsessed Black twelve-year-old, is looking forward to a summer of pick-up games with the boys (she’s always the only girl on the court) in her close-knit 1970s Brooklyn...
Review of Game of Freedom: Mestre Bimba and the Art of Capoeira
Game of Freedom: Mestre Bimba and the Art of Capoeira by Duncan Tonatiuh; illus. by the authorPrimary Abrams 48 pp.10/23 9781419764585 $19.99e-book ed. 9781647008253 $15.54Spanish ed. 9781419768507 $19.99In his accessibly written picture-book biography of Manoel dos Reis Machado (1899–1974), known as Mestre Bimba, Tonatiuh (A Land of Books, rev. 1/23,...
Review of The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman
The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman by Mari LoweIntermediate, Middle School Levine Querido 176 pp.11/23 9781646142644 $18.99Sixth grader Shaindy feels invisible at school, so when popular Gayil invites her to sneak into the building together and help with pranks against their classmates, she can’t resist the allure of the shared...
Review of My Grandfather’s Song
My Grandfather’s Song by Phùng Nguyên Quang and Huỳnh Kim Liên; illus. by the authorsPrimary Make Me a World/Random 40 pp.10/23 9780593488614 $18.99Library ed. 9780593488621 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593488638 $10.99At the beginning of the story, a grandson and grandfather stand with their palms pressed together, bowing in reverence to the jungle....
Review of Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor
Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor by Martin W. SandlerIntermediate Astra 144 pp.10/23 9781662602047 $24.99e-book ed. 9781662602054 $14.99Sandler turns his attention to shipwrecks and marine archaeology, selecting seven shipwrecks that collectively present the excitement of solving the mysteries of where each one lies, the latest excavation...
Review of Duel
Duel by Jessixa Bagley; illus. by Aaron BagleyMiddle School Simon 320 pp.11/23 9781534496552 $24.99Paper ed. 9781534496545 $14.99e-book ed. 9781534496569 $10.99Fantasy-loving Lucy and her perfectionist older sister, Gigi, have been fighting ever since their dad’s passing. When Gigi, a popular eighth grader, trips Lucy in the lunchroom on her first day...
Review of Letters in Charcoal
Letters in Charcoal by Irene Vasco; illus. by Juan Palomino; trans. from Spanish by Lawrence SchimelPrimary Lantana 32 pp.9/23 9781915244512 $18.99An unnamed narrator relates how she learned to read as a child in her coastal Afro-Colombian pueblo. In Palenque: “Letters were in kitchens, on tables, and right in front of...
Review of There Was a Party for Langston
There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds; illus. by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett PumphreyPrimary Dlouhy/Atheneum 56 pp.10/23 9781534439443 $18.99e-book ed 9781534439450 $10.99An intriguing photograph of writers Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka dancing at a party at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture...
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