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9 listens to help you celebrate Galentine’s Day

2 months ago | audible.com | Katie O'Connor |Elena Ferrante |Louisa May Alcott |Elizabeth Wein

Leslie Knope of Parks and Recreation gave us so much, but perhaps her greatest contribution was the invention of Galentine’s Day: a celebration of female friendship. Valentine’s Day can bring with it a lot of pressure, but your relationship status doesn’t matter on Galentine’s Day. It’s an opportunity to celebrate and honor the friendships in your life, and if you’re a book nerd like me, that includes book besties.
Blowing the Horn: A Gathering of Excellence

Jun 10, 2024 | hbook.com | M. T. Anderson |Kevin Hawkes |Frank Morrison |Elizabeth Wein

M. T. Anderson: The first time I went to the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards, I was overwhelmed. I was a young man with only a couple of novels out, which had sold only a handful of copies, mainly to wincing relatives. This was back when YA was still considered the embarrassing side-door of the publishing industry, a dead-end genre that could never match the literary heights of Knopf novels about dreary infidelities in Connecticut.
Blowing the Horn: Right It

Jun 5, 2024 | hbook.com | Frank Morrison |Elizabeth Wein |Anne Quirk |Liza Woodruff

We have it allBrilliance, talent, artists, writers, philosophers, scholars, educators, scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs,Activists, and meFrom the May/June 2024 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: Our Centennial. For more Horn Book centennial coverage, click here. Find more in the "Blowing the Horn" series here.
Blowing the Horn: My Grandmother, the Horn Book, and Me

Jun 3, 2024 | hbook.com | Elizabeth Wein |Anne Quirk |Liza Woodruff |Lisa Yee

Betty Flocken with Elizabeth Wein in 1968. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Wein. In 1972, when I was seven years old, I lived in Jamaica. My Pennsylvanian grandmother, Betty Flocken, sent me a new book every month. When Beverly Cleary’s Ellen Tebbits arrived, I read it in a single afternoon. That day inspired me to become a children’s author. When I headed to Yale at seventeen, I was already working on what would become my first published novel, The Winter Prince.
Sonderbooks Book Review of

Feb 28, 2024 | sonderbooks.com | Elizabeth Wein

by Elizabeth Wein read by Moira Quirk Review posted February 28, 2024 Little, Brown Young Readers, 2023. 10 hours, 38 minutes. Review written February 27, 2024, from a library eaudiobook. Starred Review 2024 Odyssey Honor 2024 Sonderbooks Stand-out: #6 More Teen Fiction I shouldn't be surprised by how good the books I've read lately are -- because I've been reading award winners.
AMERICAN WINGS by Sherri L Smith Elizabeth Wein Read by Karen Murray

Jan 28, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Sherri Smith |Elizabeth Wein

Karen Murray's smooth narration soars as she tells the stories of the pivotal men and women whose actions broke the race barrier for Black pilots during the first half of the twentieth century. While the work is extensively researched, both the authors and Murray emphasize individual stories that make the historical figures relatable.
STATELESS by Elizabeth Wein Read by Moira Quirk

Mar 31, 2023 | audiofilemagazine.com | Elizabeth Wein

Moira Quirk narrates this suspenseful novel, set in 1937. Amid the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Hitler, teenager Stella North is conscripted into an air race to promote peace. Representing Britain, Stella is the only female competing with pilots from many different European countries. This particular setting allows Quirk to showcase a wide variety of accents: British, French, German, Polish, and Italian, to name a few.
DEVIL wears Zara

Mar 20, 2023 | punemirror.com | Etaf Rum |Elizabeth Wein

Kritika Kapoor’s ‘Batshit’ is a sinister world of horror, peppered with humour, satire on South Delhi. It’s a tale of Pia and her demons who wreak havoc in her life and the posh neighbourhoods PHOTOS: OSHWIN KADHAOIn her debut novel ‘Batshit’, Kritika Kapoor showcases her unrestrained imagination as she creates a dark and terrifying paranormal world that exists both within and outside of reality.