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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...
Reviews of 2021 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 2021 winners. The Old Truck by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authors Preschool, Primary Norton 40 pp. 1/20 ...
Reviews of the 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Picture Book Award Winner and Honor Books
Picture Book Winner I Talk like a River by Jordan Scott; illus. by Sydney Smith Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 9/20 978-0-8234-4559-2 $18.99 In this lyrical and empowering picture book, Canadian poet Scott tells a story based on his own experiences as a boy who stuttered. In simple, evocative language, he...
Reviews of the 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award Winner and Honor Books
Fiction and Poetry Winner A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 480 pp. g 5/21 978-0-06-236729-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-236732-7 $10.99 Williams-Garcia, whose YA titles include the 1995 classic Like Sisters on the Homefront and Jumped (rev. 3/09), offers an unusual angle on the subject...
Reviews of the 2021 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner and Honor Books
Nonfiction Winner From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo High School Norton 384 pp. g 4/21 978-1-324-00287-1 $19.95 e-book ed. 978-1-324-00288-8 $17.48 Who was Vincent Chin? The brutal 1982 killing of the young...
Enriching the "image libraries"
In his 2013 Horn Book article "Young Dreamers," Christopher Myers wrote: "Images matter. They linger in our hearts, vast 'image libraries' that color our actions and ideas, even if we don’t recognize them on a conscious level. The plethora of threatening images of young black people has real-life effects. But if...
Review of Nice Try, Charlie!
Nice Try, Charlie! by Matt James; illus. by the author Primary Groundwood 48 pp. g 9/20 978-1-77306-180-1 $18.95 e-book ed. 978-1-77306-181-8 $16.95 Sporting a full beard, shaggy hair, and a wide-brimmed hat, Charlie roams his neighborhood finding things: an old television, a pair of mismatched oven mitts (and Aunt Myrtle’s...
Review of Letters from Cuba
Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar Intermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 272 pp. g 8/20 978-0-525-51647-7 $17.99 In 1938, eleven-year-old Jewish girl Esther is the first of her siblings to emigrate from Poland to Cuba, joining her father, who went three years earlier. Her letters to her sister, kept in a...
Review of The Henna Wars
The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar Middle School, High School Page Street 400 pp. g 5/20 978-1-62414-968-9 $17.99 Nishat is a Bengali Muslim teen attending a conservative Catholic school in Dublin. When she comes out as lesbian to her parents, she is met with near-silence. Meanwhile, Nishat creates a henna...
Review of We Are Not from Here
We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez High School Philomel 349 pp. g 5/20 978-1-9848-1226-1 $17.99 Inseparable teens Pulga, Chico, and Pequeña live in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, where the politicians are as corrupt as the gang leaders. When Pulga and Chico witness the death of Don Feliciano, murdered by...
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