Spread from Firefighters' Handbook

The following books will receive starred reviews in the November-December issue of The Horn Book Magazine:

The Shortest Day; by Susan Cooper; illustrated by Carson Ellis (Candlewick)

River; written and illustrated by Elisha Cooper (Orchard/Scholastic)

Birdsong; written and illustrated by Julie Flett (Greystone)

Red House, Tree House, Little Bitty Brown Mouse; by Jane Godwin; illustrated by Blanca Gómez (Dial)

Small in the City; written and illustrated by Sydney Smith (Porter/Holiday)

Home in the Woods; written and illustrated by by Eliza Wheeler (Paulsen/Penguin)

Penny and Her Sled; written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)

Lalani of the Distant Sea; by Erin Entrada Kelly; illus. by Lian Cho (Greenwillow)

The Year We Fell from Space; by Amy Sarig King (Levine/Scholastic)

Fing’s War; by Benny Lindelauf; translated from the Dutch by John Nieuwenhuizen (Enchanted Lion)

Light It Up; by Kekla Magoon; by Kekla Magoon (Holt)

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks; by Jason Reynolds (Dlouhy/Atheneum)

Firefighters’ Handbook; written and illustrated by Meghan McCarthy (Wiseman/Simon)