From the Editor - February 2025

Who’s got the flu? Here in Massachusetts we’re getting walloped ("Flu virus just won’t quit this year,” says the Boston Globe), making it a particularly good time to read Amy Cherrix’s well-researched and highly compelling Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike and Five Questions interview. Science is real, and we recommend five additional recent intermediate and middle-school nonfiction titles above. A healthy dose of grrl power comes with these recent middle-school-and-up novels. Or if you’re yearning for a laugh (who isn’t?!): take these silly picture books and call us in the morning.

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

Elissa Gershowitz

Elissa Gershowitz is editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc. She holds an MA from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons University and a BA from Oberlin College.

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