A white dwarf rabbit brings a refugee family together in Edward van de Vendel and Anoush Elman’s novel "Mishka". Roya and her family are refugees from Afghanistan. When they... Read More

A girl resists the limits imposed by her class and gender, daring to seek a new kind of life (with some supernatural help), in Sacha Lamb’s wonder-filled historical novel "The... Read More

Even during the Rush Era, Quill took his time cleaning the forest, mountains, and sea that all the animals enjoy. His efforts went unnoticed. When Quill went into hibernation,... Read More

A man restarts life after serving ten years as a political prisoner in the graphic biography "The Boy from Clearwater", which records society-wide changes in Taiwan over time.... Read More

In Darcie Little Badger’s compassionate novel "Sheine Lende", memories live on through love. Aided by their ghost dog, Nellie, and their ancestral ability to awaken deceased... Read More

Dynamic colored-pencil illustrations match the energy of their subject in this story of a green-thumbed grandmother. Feeding her hens and geese, composting, watering, weeding,... Read More

In Donna Barba Higuera’s distinctive novel "Alebrijes", an impoverished boy defies a realm of fantastical totalitarianism. Leandro is a crafty, compassionate thirteen-year-old... Read More

In Jaclyn Moriarty’s kaleidoscopic fantasy novel "The Secret of Lillian Velvet", a girl armed with a pickle jar full of coins contends with loneliness and otherworldly... Read More

A punk rock teacher is embroiled in a major protest movement in Sim Kern’s involving speculative novel The Free People’s Village. Maddie is an English teacher. She has a... Read More

Syrian refugees fight to survive in Haya Saleh’s moving novel "Wild Poppies", about how brotherhood endures wartime. Omar is fifteen. His father was martyred in a bombing.... Read More

In this unmissable mashup of Mesoamerican origin tales, enterprising Rabbit determines to refresh the moonglow each day, hauling the luminous nectar of a mystical agave plant... Read More

"Phalaina" is an enchanting dark fairy tale focused on an ethereal, red-eyed girl who may not be human. Manon is a little girl when she appears, alone in the woods, in late... Read More