Illustration from ¡Vamos!: Let’s Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos by Raúl the Third; color by Elaine Bay.

The following books will receive starred reviews in the September/October 2024 Horn Book Magazine:

Noodles on a Bicycle by Kyo Maclear; illus. by Gracey Zhang (Random House Studio/Random)

¡Vamos!: Let’s Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos [World of ¡Vamos!] by Raúl the Third; color by Elaine Bay (Versify/HarperCollins)

Are You Small? by Mo Willems (Union Square)

The Brightwood Code by Monica Hesse (Little, Brown)

How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger (Greenwillow)

The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb (Levine/Levine Querido)

The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin (Viking)

Pearl by Sherri L. Smith; illus. by Christine Norrie (Graphix/Scholastic)

Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos by Nathalie Alonso; illus. by Rudy Gutierrez (Calkins/Astra)

Daughter of the Light-Footed People: The Story of Indigenous Marathon Champion Lorena Ramírez by Belen Medina; illus. by Natalia Rojas Castro (Atheneum)