Set in the world of Moby-Dick, whose whaling towns were brutal, Jane Yolen’s novel "Arch of Bone" is about grief, coming-of-age, and survival. Josiah, the fourteen-year-old... Read More

Ruth Sanderson uses threads of Chinese and Norwegian folklore in "The Crystal Mountain", an alluring rendition of the “magic brocade,” this time set in fifteenth-century... Read More