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Transgender Awareness Week 2024
In honor of upcoming Transgender Awareness Week (November 13–19), here are four titles featuring trans and other gender expansive characters, recommended for middle- and/or high school readers. For more, see the Trans/gender nonconforming tag on hbook.com and the Transgender persons and Gender identity tags in the Guide/Reviews Database. The Deep...
Teens and parents
Relationships between teens and parents aren’t always simple. In these six books, recommended for middle- and/or high-school readers, those varied and evolving bonds play a central role. Breaking into Sunlight by John Cochran Middle School Algonquin 304 pp. 6/24 9781523527298 $17.99 e-book ed. 9781523529049 $9.99 Seventh grader Reese Buck has...
Beyond the ordinary
Witches, portals, griffins…these five books are perfect for middle- and high-school readers who like a bit of the fantastical within their stories. See also our Five Questions interview with Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Faith Schaffer about The Worst Ronin, and the Guide/Reviews Database subject tag Fantasy. Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest...
Endless summer reading
If you’ve (beach-)combed through our 2024 Summer Reading Recommendations list and you’re still looking for more, maybe one of these five page-turning books for readers in middle and/or high school belongs in your beach bag. Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar High School Feiwel 336 pp....
2024 Summer Reading: High School
Need suggestions for beach reading or books to bring to summer camp? Each of our lists — for all age ranges and including fiction, nonfiction, folklore, and poetry — includes thirteen selections (a baker's dozen!), all published 2023–2024 and ideal for the season. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual...
Reviews of the 2024 Pura Belpré YA Award Winners
Winner Saints of the Household by Ari Tison High School Farrar 320 pp. 3/23 9780374389499 $19.99 REVIEW TO COME Honor Books The Prince and the Coyote by David Bowles; illus. by Amanda Mijangos High School Levine/Levine Querido 440 pp. 10/23 ...
It's almost Valen-time
These four YA stories have one thing in common: love, which is there for its characters through a wide range of situations, including difficult times. By Any Other Name by Erin Cotter Middle School, High School Simon 464 pp. 10/23 9781665940719 $21.99 e-book ed. 9781665940733 $10.99 A fanciful treat set...
Voices in verse
These four books, recommended for middle-school or high-school readers, take a poetic approach to telling their tales. For additional creative uses of verse to tell a story (for intermediate and middle-school readers), see the recent nonfiction book Kin: Rooted in Hope (Atheneum) by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jeffery Boston...
Not for the faint of heart
As Halloween nears, check out these six pulse-pounding, often horror-inflected tales of the supernatural, recommended for young adult readers…if you dare. For more, see the YA Horror tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. Before the Devil Knows You’re Here by Autumn Krause High School Peachtree Teen 227 pp. 10/23 9781682636473 $18.99...
Latine/x YA: Not alone
Here are five books about Latine/x young adults who forge connections with others across oceans, centuries, and planes of existence. September 15–October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Latine/x Heritage Month. Find additional books, articles, interviews, and more from the Horn Book here. Frontera by Julio Anta; illus. by Jacoby Salcedo Middle...
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