Five Questions for Sarah Sax
Tryouts by Sarah Sax; Knopf.

Lots to learn
Wires Crossed by Beth Fantaskey, illus. by ONeillJones; Clarion/HarperCollins. 
Lo Simpson Starts a Revolution by Melanie Florence; Orca. 
The School for Invisible Boys by Shaun David Hutchinson; Labyrinth Road/Random.
Table Titans Club by Scott Kurtz, illus. by the author, color by Steve Hamaker; Holiday.
Emily Posts by Tanya Lloyd Kyi; Tundra.
Gut Reaction by Kirby Larson and Quinn Wyatt; Scholastic.
The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman by Mari Lowe; Levine Querido.
Just Shy of Ordinary by A. J. Sass; Little, Brown. 

History brought to life
Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers by Zora Neale Hurston, adapted by Ibram X. Kendi, illus. by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson; Amistad/HarperCollins.
The Circuit: Graphic Novel by Francisco Jiménez, adapted by Andrew J. Rostan, illus. by Celia Jacobs; Clarion/HarperCollins.
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel with Sammy Savos and Bethany Strout, illus. by Sammy Savos; Roaring Brook.
Three Summers: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Summer Crushes, and Growing Up on the Eve of the Bosnian Genocide by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan; Farrar.
The Mine Wars: The Bloody Fight for Workers' Rights in the West Virginia Coal Fields by Steve Watkins; Bloomsbury.

A good start
Give by Jen Arena, illus. by Rahele Jomepour Bell; Knopf.
The First Week of School by Drew Beckmeyer; Atheneum.
The Walking School Bus by Aaron Friedland and Ndileka Mandela, illus. by Andrew Jackson Obol; Greystone Kids. 
At the End of the Day by Lisl H. Detlefsen, illus. by Lynnor Bontigao; Knopf.
The Yellow Bus by Loren Long; Roaring Brook.
Emergency Quarters by Carlos Matias, illus. by Gracey Zhang; Tegen/HarperCollins.
Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo; Penguin Workshop.
The Young Teacher and the Great Serpent by Irene Vasco, illus. by Juan Palomino, trans. from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel; Eerdmans.

Grade-A YA
Not like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo; Bloomsbury.
Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta; Quill Tree/HarperCollins.
The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson; Random.
Prom Babies by Kekla Magoon; Holt.
Flawless Girls by Anna-Marie McLemore; Feiwel.
You're Breaking My Heart by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich; Levine/Levine Querido.

From the July 2024 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.