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These five nonfiction books tell middle- and/or high-school readers more about people and moments they might learn about in history class, or may pique their interest beyond the curriculum. Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming Middle School, High School Schwartz/Random 368...
These five graphic novels and highly illustrated books paint pictures of school life for intermediate and/or middle-school readers. See also the Schools--Elementary schools and Schools--Middle schools subject tags in the Guide/Reviews Database, and for a look at school for a younger audience, see our Five Questions interview with Ibi Zoboi...
A new school year can mean new friendships…and it can also mean new worries. Here are eight picture books with social-emotional learning themes that new and returning learners may find helpful or reassuring when starting school (or at any other time). For more on first days of school everywhere, see...
In the picture book First Day Around the World (Versify/HarperCollins, 4–8 years), Ibi Zoboi’s verse and Juanita Londoño’s illustrations allow readers to travel from one place to another, exploring various aspects of the first day of school — from transportation to lessons to meals — in a world of ways....
Titan of the Stars (Tundra, 14–17 years) is set in the future on a spaceship en route to Mars. Elements, including the social dynamics, may remind readers of the Titanic…but the danger for these passengers arises from space aliens discovered in a melting tundra; presumed to be dead, they’ve escaped...
Five questions for E. K. Johnston Titan of the Stars by E. K. Johnston; Tundra. Future worlds Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins; Scholastic. Sea Change by Susan Fletcher; Amulet/Abrams. This Is the Year by Gloria Muñoz; Holiday. Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel; Scholastic. The Legendary Scarlett & Browne by Jonathan Stroud; Knopf. Creatures featured The Undead Fox...
I hope you will join us (virtually at hbook.com and on Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky) next Monday, June 23, at 12 p.m. EDT for the announcement of the 2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards. We’re usually a fairly “open book,” but from when the judges tell us their fab choices to...
Here are five recent picture books featuring rocks. And of quartz these choices aren’t written in stone — if you’re looking for more, see the Earth science--Geology subject tag in the Guide/Reviews Database…and rock on. Rock by Laurel Croza; illus. by Matt James Primary Groundwood 44 pp. 3/25 9781773069487 $19.99...
These seven books are for intermediate and/or middle-school animal lovers, including stories starring animals and stories of friendship across species. For more, see the Animals subject tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey Hartman Intermediate Little, Brown 320 pp. 2/25 9780316575720 $17.99 e-book ed. ...
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