Frances Hardinge

3 weeks ago | hbook.com | Shaun Hutchinson |Frances Hardinge

Special Issue: ALA Awards. Original cover art by 2025 Caldecott Medal winner Rebecca Lee Kunz. Carole Boston Weatherford’s Children's Literature Legacy Award acceptance speech. A profile of Carole Boston Weatherford by educator Dawnavyn James. Erin Entrada Kelly’s Newbery Medal acceptance speech. A profile of Erin Entrada Kelly by author Sharon Huss Roat. Rebecca Lee Kunz’s Caldecott Medal acceptance speech. A profile of Rebecca Lee Kunz by poet Kyce Bello.

3 weeks ago | hbook.com | Shaun Hutchinson |Frances Hardinge

For as long as I can remember, I’ve made up stories to help me explain the world. That’s not unique to me. People have been creating stories to explain reality for the entirety of human history. Even history itself is basically reality fanfiction that we mostly agree to pretend is definitely one hundred percent real.

Jan 10, 2025 | slj.com | Frances Hardinge |Tracy Cronce |Andrea Beatriz

. Aug. 2024. 120p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9781419774331. COPY ISBN Gr 4-8–Hardinge’s latest read delivers suspense, adventure, mystery, and fantasy all in one beautifully illustrated novel. Milo never imagined that he would be the one to fill his father’s big shoes of being the Ferryman, taking their island’s departed souls to the afterlife. Being a Ferryman required the ability to focus and to stay unmoved by death, and his father made it clear that Milo’s older brother was his top choice.

Aug 29, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Frances Hardinge |Emily Gravett |Katherine Applegate |Charles Santoso

A deftly told, bittersweet story of loved ones lost and remembered, tinged with hope and courage. What happens when an unlikely hero must transport the Dead to their final destination? Fourteen-year-old Milo’s not cut out to work with dead people, or so his father is quick to tell him. Though his dad is the Ferryman, entrusted with taking the newly deceased by ship from their island, Merlank, to the Island of the Broken Towers, where they can move on, Milo lacks the right disposition.

Jul 11, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Christina Wyman |Jonathan Roth |Bessie Flores Zaldívar |Frances Hardinge

Christina Wyman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-39190-4; $9.99 paper ISBN 978-1-250-29326-8At almost 5’10”, seventh grader Stephanie “Stevie” Crumb feels like a “freakish giant” and is tired of people commenting on her height, getting bullied at school for her ill-fitting clothes, and attracting unwanted (and scary) attention from older men while she rides the Brooklyn subway with her bestie Arianna.