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Booklists and resources about annual observances/holidays, special events, social justice, and more. We've covered a wide range of topics for all age levels in 2025, so we've compiled them together for readers to find some great new books to enjoy and share. Don't miss out — subscribe to The Horn...
This Is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color by Rachel Poliquin; illus. by Julie Morstad Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 48 pp. 10/25 9781536230529 $18.99 “We must begin with the orange.” Poliquin’s “field trip through color” kicks off with the “deliciously round and sweet” citrus fruit associated with the shade of the...
Settle in on long winter nights (and days) with these five young adult mystery and thriller novels. See also the Mystery and detective stories tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. Up in Smoke by Nick Brooks High School Holt 256 pp. 5/25 9781250359933 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781250359926 $11.99 Sixteen-year-old Cooper King...
March is Women’s History Month, and in these six picture-book biographies we’re celebrating women in arts professions, educators, and activists whose passion and creativity are an inspiration. For more, see the Women’s History Month tag on hbook.com and the Guide/Reviews Database section The Arts and the Women--Biographies tag. Cowboys at...
In settings from schools to spelling bees, these six books — recommended for intermediate and/or middle-school readers — deal with friendship, a subject that can be as complex as any in the classroom. See also the Friendship tag in the Guide/Reviews Database and our Five Questions interview with Chanel Miller...
The Islamic month of Ramadan is a solemn holiday of fasting, charity, and additional prayer, culminating in the joyous feasting of Eid al-Fitr. Ramadan mubarak to those observing, and Happy Eid! We’d like to call your attention to archived reading suggestions from our friends at KitaabWorld, who used to review...
Lunar New Year begins today. Happy Year of the Horse! We wish all who are celebrating a new year full of joy and prosperity. Here is our Lunar New Year reading list with fiction and nonfiction books featuring the holiday for preschool, primary, intermediate, and older readers. All of the...
Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr High School Amulet/Abrams 480 pp. 9/25 9781419776830 $21.99 e-book ed. 9798887074016 $19.79 This verse novel’s protagonist, high school senior Truth Bangura, does not make the grades her moralizing best friend does, but she still has goals beyond what her overbearing mother and her guidance...
Pippo’s Perfectly Peculiar Days by Lenny Wen; illus. by the author Primary Clarion/HarperCollins 48 pp. 10/25 9780063288959 $19.98 Meet Pippo: a tiny rodent wearing a quilted cardigan and a neckerchief who spends his time clickety-clacking on a typewriter in his cozily appointed hollow tree. His days are orderly, his routines...
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