In the sweet novel "The Best Day Ever", a boy learns about self-worth and acceptance from a menagerie of new friends. Set in a garden teeming with adventures, K. D. McPhillips’s novel "The Best Day Ever" is about new beginnings and... Read More

"The Metamorphosis of Emma Murry" is a dazzling novel about a girl’s crusade to save a local mountain—and perhaps fall in love. In Rebecca Laxton’s delightful novel "The Metamorphosis of Emma Murry", an artistic thirteen-year-old... Read More

A virtual reality game causes widespread mayhem in "Final Video Game", an exciting science fiction novel with a lonely young hero at its center. In order to save the world from an AI takeover, a teenager equipped with a VR headset... Read More

A charismatic band of wood nymphs, shapeshifters, and a gigantic humanoid mushroom protect their home from an ancient force in Christopher Mackie’s charming fantasy novel "Cloudlanders". The story begins “years from now, in a strange... Read More

In Anders Sparring’s humorous chapter book "The Pinchers and the Diamond Heist", the sole redeeming member of a family of bandits is a scrupulous boy who can’t seem to lie. Theo’s parents and sister have a penchant for thievery.... Read More

In Michaelbrent Collings’s inventive fantasy novel "The Witch in the Woods", twins who are descendants of the Grimm brothers navigate a new reality when theirs collides with a fairy-tale world. Jake and Willow move to a new town, where... Read More

In Christine Read’s novel "Queenie Jean Is in Trouble Again", a lonely fifth grader with ADHD tries to fit in at a new school. In her new school, Queenie hopes for an understanding principal, a caring teacher, and just one girl to be... Read More

In Linda DeMeulemeester’s historical novel Ephemia Rimaldi, a lonely girl searches for her estranged father. In Canada in the early 1900s, Effy dodges rotten tomatoes and insults on the streets of Toronto alongside her suffragist Aunt... Read More