Tim wants a skateboard for his birthday, but he knows his parents can’t afford it. Inspired by the Can Man, a neighborhood homeless man who scours the garbage for cans he can return for cash, Tim starts to gather cans on his own. He... Read More

A winning tale, in verse, about a family that keeps finding cats that need a home, and a tough-talking dad whose heart wins out every time. As the number of cats in the family keeps rising, the repetition and expansion of Dad’s rant... Read More

Jason Smallfield’s father, Trevor, is a professional stuntman and karate instructor. To everyone else in the world, Trevor might seem like a hero, but for Jason he is the exact opposite. Trevor left his wife when Jason was very young... Read More

Brian Turner’s inventory of a year in Iraq includes: desert boots, body armor, “nights spent staring for heat signatures through the white-hot lens.” Also: dead infants, boredom, “A bullet carrying the middle vowel of the word... Read More

From 1941 to 1945, almost a thousand African-Americans graduated from the Tuskegee Army Flying School, many of whom distinguished themselves as pilots during World War II. Sixty-six Tuskegee airmen were killed in action and thirty-three... Read More

This atypical guide book, a combination of parenting and financial advice, helps financially well-off parents integrate financial responsibility into the next generation’s dreams. The “kids” in the book’s title actually refers to... Read More

The “me” of this time-traveling valentine to China is Aysha Silvermintz. Twenty-two a native New Yorker her degree in English literature at Columbia University still incomplete owing to a manic interlude in St. Lukes psych ward Aysha... Read More