Five questions for Monica Brown
Sharuko: El arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello by Monica Brown, illus. by Elisa Chavarri, trans. into Spanish by Adriana Domínguez, Children's/Lee.

Exploration and curiosity
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner by Janice N. Harrington, illus. by Theodore Taylor III, Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills.
Whose Footprint Is THAT? by Darrin Lunde, illus. by Kelsey Oseid, Charlesbridge.
Not a Bean by Claudia Guadalupe Martínez, illus. by Laura González, Charlesbridge.
Cityscape: Where Science and Art Meet by April Pulley Sayre, Greenwillow.

Kids in summer
The Water Bears by Kim Baker, Lamb/Random.
Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim, Kokila/Penguin.
Worse Than Weird by Jody J. Little, Harper/HarperCollins.
The Book of Fatal Errors by Dashka Slater, Farrar.

Middle school and YA verse novels and poetry
I Am Here Now by Barbara Bottner, Imprint/Macmillan.
With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero by Margarita Engle, Atheneum.
On the Horizon by Lois Lowry, illus. by Kenard Pak, Houghton.
Kent State by Deborah Wiles, Scholastic.

From the July 2020 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.