Emma, a middle sibling whose summer vacation takes a turn when she’s in too much of a hurry to stand out, learns to relish her own age in Laura Wiltse Prior’s breezy chapter book "Emma Just Medium". Emma has just finished the first... Read More

Featuring nine superb short stories, "More Voices from the Radium Age" is a diverse, captivating collection of science fiction. Focusing on works written between 1900 and 1935, it reissues overlooked stories that preceded the “golden... Read More

Laure Dargelos’s novel "Saving Ellipsis" is a playful jaunt through the topsy-turvy world of grammar and literature. In Ellipsis, Prosperina fails to follow unspoken rules, opening a flower shop instead of a bookstore and breaking... Read More

Mark Walczynski’s history book "Jolliet and Marquette" shines light on an important North American expedition. In 1673, Louis Jolliet, an explorer, and Jacques Marquette, a priest, set out to chart the Mississippi River and the... Read More

Set in rural Australia, Eugen Bacon’s novel "Serengotti" follows a programmer who travels to an isolated African migrant community where little is as it seems. The novel begins with Ch’anzu having a breakdown—over a drowning... Read More

A disowned daughter returns to her Mormon home to care for her ailing mother in Karin Anderson’s novel "What Falls Away". Cassandra, the only daughter in a family of boys, was raised in a strict religious household. But she hasn’t... Read More

An eleven-year-old girl with a magical link to a water spirit confronts her destiny in the graphic novel "Kariba". Siku, discovered as a baby in a secret area of the Zambezi River, has the power to manipulate water. Her abilities... Read More

Laura Yares’s "Jewish Sunday Schools" is a complex survey of Jewish immigrant religious education that notes its influence on society. The book details the concerns of early nineteenth-century Jewish American communities regarding the... Read More