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From the May/June 2022 special issue of The Horn Book Magazine: The Newbery Centennial.

With Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement, author Angela Joy (Black Is a Rainbow Color) and debut illustrator Janelle Washington collaborate to mourn a tragedy, honor a heroine, and engage young readers in the quest for racial justice.

With My Own Lightning, Lauren Wolk returns to the characters and setting of her first novel for young people, the Newbery Honor-winning Wolf Hollow, published in 2016. We talk below about why she went back.

Once teacher and student, now longtime collaborators, Alex Boersma and Nick Pyenson join forces in The Whale Who Swam Through Time: A 200-Year Journey in the Arctic to make us think differently about scales of size, time, and environmental change.

Maggie Stiefvater Bravely wanders into Disney intellectual property-land with the further adventures of Merida, heroine of the animated film Brave, released by Disney and Pixar in 2012.