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Fanfare 2024 Annotations
Welcome to Fanfare, the Horn Book’s annual best books list! What a way to close out the Horn Book’s centennial year, with our fifty-three (think of it as one per week plus a bonus!) most highly recommended titles. All year long we’ve been exploring the theme of “Past, Present, and...
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Review of A Two-Placed Heart: A Memoir in Verse
A Two-Placed Heart: A Memoir in Verse by Doan Phuong NguyenIntermediate, Middle School Tu/Lee & Low 352 pp.9/24 9781643796420 $24.95In this fictionalized memoir in verse set in 1991, Bom both envies and resents her younger sister Bo’s ignorance about their life in Vietnam, before their family immigrated to the United...
Reading for Diwali
In honor of the Festival of Lights, here are some books about the celebration of Diwali along with picture books, fiction, and nonfiction by and about South Asian and South Asian American people. These books for young readers — all recommended at the time of their publication by The Horn...
The House Before Falling into the Sea
At the beginning of The House Before Falling into the Sea, we don’t know why large groups of people are fleeing their homes on foot, but they all seem to have one destination: a house at the tip of a rocky peninsula that juts out into a choppy sea. The...
Books for World Refugee Day
Help children honor World Refugee Day with these Guide/Reviews Database-recommended picture books, middle-grade, and young adult books. For more discussion on the topic, visit the Horn Book website....
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Review of The Bicycle: How an Act of Kindness Changed a Young Refugee’s Life
The Bicycle: How an Act of Kindness Changed a Young Refugee’s Life by Patricia McCormick and Mevan Babakar; illus. by Yas ImamuraPrimary Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 40 pp.5/24 9780063056992 $19.99When her family must flee their beloved home in Kurdistan, young Mevan’s status as a refugee makes her feel smaller and smaller...
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Review of The Night War
The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyIntermediate, Middle School Dial 288 pp.4/24 9780735228566 $17.99e-book ed. 9780735228580 $10.99In 1942, French police in Occupied Paris rounded up over thirteen thousand French Jews and corralled them into a stadium; almost all perished at Auschwitz. Bradley’s (The War That Saved My Life, rev. 1/15,...
Review of The House Before Falling into the Sea
The House Before Falling into the Sea by Ann Suk Wang; illus. by Hanna Cha Primary Dial 40 pp. 3/24 9780593530153 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593530160 $10.99 In this picture book set in 1950, Kyung lives with her family in a seaside house in the southeastern Korean coastal city of Busan....
At home with poetry
Get ready for National Poetry Month, coming in April! These five books for younger readers feature poems about all kinds of places, about feeling at home, and about poetry itself. See also the Guide/Reviews Database subject tag Poetry, and for older readers, check out our Five Questions interview with Renée...
Reviews of the 2024 Pura Belpré Author Award Winners
Winner Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Dial 320 pp. 8/23 9780593462287 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780593462294 $14.99 e-book ed. 9780593462300 $9.99 Martín’s humorous and heartfelt memoir recounts a momentous 1977 road trip with his “big Mexican American family.” Apá and Amá gather...
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