The one good HiveWing, Cricket, is tasked with convincing her new friends not to do a terrorism on all the other HiveWings.

Now here is some A+ horse content. Sky is a colt in Nevada in 1860 whose life is ruined by those no-good water-polluting humans. If you love a children's book with some excellent backmatter this is the book for you.

Kizzy dreams of being an Olympic showjumper despite never having been on a horse- put her luck changes when she finds a fat pony munching on donuts at the grocery store. All she has to do is keep him fed and hidden in the big city.

Yes I also read books for adults. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy is about a 16 year old cowboy who decides that modern 1949 American has no use for 'men' like him so he heads south.

Once again, I'm too impatient to wait for the actual year of the horse. In this episode, I'm reviewing Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The War That Saved My Life & The War I Finally Won. These two middle-grade books are about a young disabled girl Ada, who at the start of WW2 is evacuated from London into the countryside. Away from her abusive and neglectful mom for the first time in her life she is finally able to truely live. And of course she makes best friends with a pony called Butter.

Happy Year of the Horse (almost)! Will's Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes is a short children's book about a Black boy taking part in the Oklahoma Land Rush. With his father, his best-friend-Mule Belle, and their new ex-Union officer friend they will stake a claim and build a legacy for themselves.

Now listen up, here's a story. About a little guy that lives in a new world. And all day and all night and everything he sees is just- Okay the bit is just that he's Blue.

Our little fella is just a peaceful little student in the police state of this brand-new dragon continent.

2,000 years ago we learn the tragic backstory of our man baby male manipulator Darkstalker.

Reading the most recent Newbery winner: Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being.

I am not reading this for noble reasons though- it was purely based on spite because I had an argument with my coworker about the importance of Newberries.

• Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda 
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
• Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger & Illustrated by Rovina Cai
• The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

• The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
• The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
• The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• GLEEM by Freddy Carrasco
• Navigating with you by Jeremy Whitley & Cassio Ribeiro
• Cry Wolf Girl by Ariel Slamet Ries
• Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr., Jes Wibowo, & Cin Wibowo 
• Cat Man by PARARI
• Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls
• Love Languages by James Albon
• Stalactite & Stalagmite: A Big Tale from a Little Cave by Drew Beckmeyer
• Every Dog in the Neighborhood by Philip C. Stead & Matthew Cordell
• The Strangest Fish by Katherine Arden & Zahra Marwan
• A Book of Maps for You by Lourdes Heuer & Maxwell Eaton III 
• Islandborn by Junot Díaz & Leo Espinosa 
• I know how to draw an owl by Hilary Horder Hippely & Matt James 
• The Moon from Dehradun: A Story of Partition by Shirin Shamsi & Tarun Lak 
• If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone by Gideon Sterer

Honorable Mentions

• Bark Bark Girl by Michael Furler
• Everything Helen Oyeyemi
• Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
• Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
• Land of the Lustrous Series by Haruko Ichikawa
• Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
• Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
• Of Thunder and Lightning by Kimberly Wang
• Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
• Scarlet Morning by ND Stevenson
• Sea Legs by Jules Bakes
• Shark Girl by Kate Beaton
• Syllabus by Lynda Barry
• The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates