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March Madness: Pick Your Favorite September/October Horn Book Magazine Cover!
Cover Madness continues! Voting is over for the July/August covers. Next up are the September/October 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 2019 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 2019 winners. A Parade of Elephants by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the author Preschool Greenwillow 40 pp. g 9/18 978-0-06-266827-1 $18.99...
Review of D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History
D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed Historyby Deborah HopkinsonIntermediate, Middle SchoolScholastic Focus/Scholastic 376 pp. g8/18 978-0-545-68248-0 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-545-68249-7 $16.99D-Day marked the beginning of the end for Hitler’s stranglehold on Europe. A massive, coordinated attack that was months in the planning, Operation Overlord saw Allied forces land on...
Reviews of the 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award Winner and Honor Books
Fiction and Poetry Winner The Season of Styx Maloneby Kekla MagoonIntermediate, Middle School Lamb/Random 298 pp. g10/18 978-1-5247-1595-3 $16.99Library ed. 978-1-5247-1596-0 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-5247-1597-7 $10.99It’s summertime, and the living is easy. At least it was before narrator Caleb and his older brother Bobby Gene make a bad deal with their...
Reviews of the 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner and Honor Books
Nonfiction WinnerThis Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equalityby Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie LevyIntermediate, Middle School Bloomsbury 311 pp. g1/19 978-1-68119-852-1 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-68119-853-8 $12.59 In 1956 in the small town of Clinton, Tennessee, twelve African American students integrated the all-white high school. Jo Ann...
Review of Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Darius the Great Is Not Okayby Adib KhorramHigh School Dial 313 pp. g8/18 978-0-5255-5296-3 $17.99 Sophomore Darius Kellner doesn’t fit in at his Oregon high school, where he’s bullied by Trent Bolger and his “Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy.” But Darius also doesn’t fit comfortably in his own life due to clinical...
Reviews of the 2019 Newbery Award winners
Winner Merci Suárez Changes Gearsby Meg MedinaIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 361 pp. g9/18 978-0-7636-9049-6 $16.99Working-class Cuban American girl Mercedes “Merci” Suárez’s life in South Florida consists of spending time with her extended family and attending elite Seaward Pines Academy, where the sixth grader does community service to pay for her...
Reviews of the 2019 CSK Author Award winners
WinnerA Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919by Claire HartfieldMiddle School, High School Clarion 196 pp. g1/18 978-0-544-78513-7 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-328-69904-6 $9.99This readable, compelling history explores the longstanding and deeply rooted causes of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot, which left thirty-eight people dead and 537 wounded (two-thirds of...
Reviews of the 2019 Sibert Award winners
WinnerThe Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian’s Art Changed Scienceby Joyce Sidman;
photos by the authorIntermediate Houghton 140 pp. g2/18 978-0-544-71713-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-328-83028-9 $9.99Sidman introduces readers to Maria Merian, a seventeenth-century German naturalist whose illustrations of the life cycles of butterflies and moths included groundbreaking scientific details, such...
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