Five questions for Ruta Sepetys
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys; Philomel.

The costs of conflicts
Enduring Freedom by Jawad Arash and Trent Reedy; Algonquin.
Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn; Putnam.
World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story by Kenan Trebinčević and Susan Shapiro; Clarion.
The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson; Versify/HarperCollins.

Jewish experiences
Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner’s Call to Science by Jeannine Atkins; Atheneum.
Falling Short by Ernesto Cisneros; Quill Tree/HarperCollins.
Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II by Lia Levi, illus. by Jess Mason, trans. from Italian by Sylvia Notini; Harper/HarperCollins.
Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe; Levine Querido.
I’ll Keep You Close by Jeska Verstegen, trans. from Dutch by Bill Nagelkerke; Levine Querido.

Asian/Pacific American contemporary realism
Generation Misfits by Akemi Dawn Bowman; Farrar.
Dream, Annie, Dream by Waka T. Brown; Quill Tree/HarperCollins.
That Thing About Bollywood by Supriya Kelkar; Simon.
Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone by Tae Keller; Random.
The Many Meanings of Meilan by Andrea Wang; Kokila/Penguin.
New from Here by Kelly Yang; Simon.

Under the sea
Anglerfish: The Seadevil of the Deep by Elaine Alexander, illus. by Fiona Fogg; Candlewick.
The Whale Who Swam Through Time: A 200-Year Journey in the Arctic by Alex Boersma and Nick Pyenson, illus. by Alex Boersma; Roaring Brook.
Sharks: A Mighty Bite-y History by Miriam Forster, illus. by Gordy Wright; Abrams.
Good Eating: The Short Life of Krill by Matt Lilley, illus. by Dan Tavis; Tilbury.
Ducks Overboard!: A True Story of Plastic in Our Oceans by Markus Motum; Candlewick.

From the May 2022 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.