Five Questions for Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Faith Schaffer
The Worst Ronin by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, illus. by Faith Schaffer; HarperAlley/HarperCollins.

Beyond the ordinary    
Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest by Isabel Greenberg; Amulet/Abrams.
The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko; Amulet/Abrams.
The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb; Levine/Levine Querido.
Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by Ransom Riggs; Dutton.
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, illus. by Ashley Mackenzie; Knopf.

Learning from our elders
Black Star by Kwame Alexander; Little, Brown.
Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan; Paulsen/Penguin.
And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps; Paulsen/Penguin.
Not Nothing by Gayle Forman; Aladdin/Simon.
Clairboyance by Kristiana Kahakauwila; Harper/HarperCollins.
Tree. Table. Book. by Lois Lowry; Clarion/HarperCollins.

Sailing for adventure
The Last Zookeeper by Aaron Becker; Candlewick.
The Ship in the Window by Travis Jonker, illus. by Matthew Cordell; Viking.
The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat by Em Lynas, illus. by Matt Hunt; Nosy Crow.
Bye Land, Bye Sea by René Spencer and Rodolfo Montalvo, illus. by Rodolfo Montalvo; Roaring Brook.
The Elephant and the Sea by Ed Vere; Doubleday.

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