In Jill Caugherty’s novel "The View from Half Dome", a girl makes plans to fills the void left by her father and sister. Isabel moves into a rundown apartment in Depression-era San Francisco with her mother and her sister, Audrey. Her... Read More

In Sarah Gerard’s spare and elegant novella "The Butter House", a woman seeks solace and contemplates her future while she settles into a new home with her boyfriend and two cats. The woman and her boyfriend leave Brooklyn for an... Read More

Climate change impacts the lives of two young people in the remarkable graphic novel "Global". Twelve-year-old Sami lives with his grandfather, Solomon, in a village near the Bay of Bengal. Each day they are forced to travel farther to... Read More

Black music—funk, soul, disco—from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, coupled with the love shared by his parents, set the rhythm and inspiration for this collection, Douglas Manuel’s second after Testify, itself a Benjamin Franklin... Read More

In Matthew J. White’s rollicking, imaginative novel "A Feral Chorus", a man who’s stuck in life embarks on a meandering, life-changing road trip from Florida to New Orleans. Guy works as a car salesman in Houston after dropping out... Read More

In this biographical picture book, a girl loves all creatures—even busy, tickly spiders. Drawing on happy memories of her bucolic childhood and her tapestry-weaving mother, she becomes a writer, a sketch artist, and a sculptor. At... Read More

Fern, an anthropomorphized plant, gets an invitation to a surprise exhibition at the local museum, but her anxiety almost prevents her from going. Her friend Fawn, a deer, arrives just in time, encouraging her to go and offering to... Read More

A squirrel with a big heart and a panda who’s prone to ennui are the best of friends in the nine short stories of this upbeat, curiosity-inducing early reader. They teach a just-hatched duckling how to walk and learn the art of asking... Read More