Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by In The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman, Gennifer Choldenko, author of such middle-grade stalwarts as the Newbery Honor–winning Al Capone Does My Shirts and sequels, tracks the fortunes of...
In Tracey Baptiste's page-turning sci-fi thriller Boy 2.0 (Algonquin, 10–14 years), Win “Coal” Keegan, a Black boy in the foster system and an activist who makes art about anti-Black police violence, finds that he can turn invisible, an ability that keeps him safe when he needs it most. His discovery...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by With Brown Girl, Brown Girl, poet Leslé Honoré joins with artist Cozbi A. Cabrera to acknowledge Black and brown girlhood in its challenges and joys and promise. After swapping...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by In a brief palindromic text where the words are the same going forward and backward, a young boy confronts the loss of his mother by facing down all manner...
This is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Tundra Books We Are Definitely Human (Tundra, 4–8 years) say the three strangers who appear at Mr. and Mrs. Li's house one night. In her latest picture book, X. Fang...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Bella is The Glass Girl, transparent to everybody but herself, and so, so fragile. And, certainly, she has a drinking problem, but as her story painfully reveals, twelve steps...
In their dynamic picture-book biography Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos (Calkins/Astra, 7–10 years), author Nathalie Alonso and illustrator Rudy Gutierrez trace their subject’s baseball career and his advocacy. See also the Sports--Baseball and Puerto Ricans tags in the Guide/Reviews Database. 1. Nathalie, as a sports...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by It’s Not Nothing that this book is narrated by a 107-year-old man in a retirement home, and again not nothing that the protagonist is a troubled kid “volunteering” at...
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by A resolutely trepidatious kid, Ethan does not want to go to Kevin’s house to watch Demons of Death 4: Death Fingers with the rest of the gang Friday night....
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