Five questions for Jason Reynolds
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds; Dlouhy/Atheneum.   

If you LOVE love stories...
Our Shouts Echo by Jade Adia; Hyperion.
Guava and Grudges by Alexis Castellanos; Bloomsbury.
With Love, Miss Americanah by Jane Igharo; Feiwel.
Leap by Simina Popescu; Roaring Brook.
The Art Thieves by Andrea L. Rogers; Levine/Levine Querido.
Break to You by Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, and Michelle Knowlden; Quill Tree/HarperCollins.
Heir by Sabaa Tahir; Putnam.
Night Owls by A. R. Vishny; Harper/HarperCollins.

New year, new stories
Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan; Roaring Brook.
Noodle & Bao by Shaina Lu; Quill Tree/HarperCollins.
Countdown to Yesterday by Shirley Marr; Simon.
A Two-Placed Heart: A Memoir in Verse by Doan Phuong Nguyen; Tu/Lee & Low.
Gracie Under the Waves by Linda Sue Park, illus. by Maxine Vee; Allida/HarperCollins.
The Squad by Christina Soontornvat, illus. by Joanna Cacao, color by Wes Dzioba; Graphix/Scholastic.
Lion Dancers by Cai Tse; Simon.
Born Naughty: My Childhood in China by Jin Wang and Tony Johnston, illus. by Anisi Baigude; Schwartz/Random.

Black excellence
The Purple One: A Story of Prince by Matthew Burgess, illus. by Sirin Thada; Enchanted Lion.
Go, Wilma, Go!: Wilma Rudolph, from Athlete to Activist by Amira Rose Davis and Michael G. Long, illus. by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow; Bloomsbury.
A Song for August: The Inspiring Life of Playwright August Wilson by Sally Denmead, illus. by Alleanna Harris; Levine/Levine Querido.
Ode to Grapefruit: How James Earl Jones Found His Voice by Kari Lavelle, illus. by Bryan Collier; Knopf.
What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice by Jay Leslie, illus. by Loveis Wise; Hillman Grad/Zando.
A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story by Nadia Salomon, illus. by London Ladd; Philomel.
Make a Pretty Sound: A Story of Ella Jenkins — the First Lady of Children’s Music by Tracy N. Todd, illus. by Eleanor Davis; Chronicle.

From the January 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.