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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...
If you like a little scare with your fiction fare, check out these six books recommended for intermediate and/or middle-school readers. For a thriller with a sci-fi bent, see our Five Questions interview with Tracey Baptiste about Boy 2.0. And for Halloween recommendations for the younger set, see Horn BOO!...
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...
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...
Five Questions for Nathalie Alonso and Rudy Gutierrez Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos by Nathalie Alonso, illus. by Rudy Gutierrez; Calkins/Astra. National Hispanic Heritage Latine/x Heritage Month 2024 Barrio Rising: The Protest that Built Chicano Park by María Dolores Águila, illus. by Magdalena Mora; Dial. Doña Fela’s Dream by Monica Brown, illus. by...
In my house, baseball season never really ends, and September, with its lead-up to the MLB playoffs, is clutch. Sunday, September 15, was the annual celebration of Roberto Clemente Day — all players wear #21 — and the start of National Hispanic Heritage Latine/x Heritage Month (September 15–October 15). What...
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...
Novels in verse, such as these five recommended for intermediate and/or middle-school readers, can pack a lot of meaning into relatively short lines. See also the March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine, with its centennial mini-theme of Poetry & Folklore, and Dorie Raybuck’s 2015 Field Notes column, “This Is Too Much!”:...
These seven engaging fiction and nonfiction picture books are recommended in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Latine/x Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 through October 15 — and should be shared all year long! See also our Five Questions interview with Nathalie Alonso and Rudy Gutierrez about Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente...
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