Maud Macrory Powell’s *City of Grit and Gold *is a historical novel that places a family conflict at the center of a political battle, raising questions about privilege, duty, and assimilation. Twelve-year-old Addie lives with her... Read More

"The Grumpface" is light and fun, and the grumpiness and daftness of its leads are sure to set children giggling. B. C. R. Fegan’s "The Grumpface" is a familiar and appealing story about a cursed forest troll, who serves as a... Read More

Combining personal narrative and climate change research, this catastrophic book is capable of shaking the most secure temperament to its core. The best way to look at "China Lake" is as a long essay. The author seeks (and obtains)... Read More

Major League Baseball has gone to war with itself—the Black Sox gambling scandal, collective-bargaining negotiations in the late 1960s, steroid use—and also against Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I when more than 1,250... Read More

War is always an agent of change, but never more so than for schoolmates Filip and Galina. It’s World War II, and, to protect Filip from being drafted, Galina agrees to marry him when he turns eighteen. Marina Antropow Cramer’s... Read More

Marissa Moss shares the brutal experience of her husband’s deterioration from ALS, in her unflinching graphic memoir, "Last Things". Moss, a successful author of many children’s books, including the Amelia’s Notebook and Young... Read More

A lone lizard travels across the wild landscape of the New Zealand bush-munching bugs and traversing branches, always keeping a watchful eye out for any lurking threats in teacher and environmentalist Gay Hay’s "Go, Green Gecko!"... Read More

Dealing with an angry child is complex and often even scary. In "Helping Your Angry Teen", Mitch R. Abblett, PhD, teaches parents to form new pathways of connectivity to their teens through mindfulness and positive thinking and acting.... Read More