"Beyond the Land of Dreams" is an imaginative coming-of-age fairy tale set in a struggling, storied land. In Susan Bruck’s charming series fantasy novel "Beyond the Land of Dreams", a girl comes of age in a fairy-tale setting. Darkness... 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

In Jessica Flory’s novel "Oceans of Sand", teenagers travel across a desert world plagued by famine to save their people. Zadock is the most powerful shaker his age. He’s able to control the sands that his people live on. His father... Read More

In Adi Rule’s fun supernatural novel Nell and the Netherbeast, a girl works with a malodorous beast to solve a mystery at her aunt’s bed and breakfast. Twelve-year-old Nell had intended to spend her summer helping at a local shelter.... Read More

Fairy tales and myths form a seamless whole in R. M. Romero’s fantasy novel "A Warning about Swans"—a story about fate, identity, belonging, and deception. In the far reaches of the Bavarian forests, Hilde is one of six daughters of... Read More

In Louise Finch’s insightful novel The Eternal Return of Clara Hart, a boy who’s stuck in a time loop confronts the events that led to the death of a classmate. For Spencer, the anniversary of his mom’s death is a painful day. At a... Read More

In Karen Krossing’s meaningful novel "Monster vs. Boy", a child faces a monster and his own past. Eleven-year-old Dawz lives with his sister and their uncle, who adopted the children after their mother disappeared. He is happy, enjoys... 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