Laden with symbolism, Jen Doktorski’s heartrending novel "Finding Normal" follows two teenagers with disordered eating on a cross-country road trip. Gemma is sick of living on the hospital’s eating disorder floor. Forced to do group... Read More

Bursting with energy and excitement, Peaches and Jake Celebrate Christmas is an upbeat holiday picture book about two dogs with quite different approaches to their gifts. Paula Bailey’s festive and bright picture book Peaches and Jake... Read More

A whaler and his wife experience a tragedy and new beginnings in Cynthia Reeves’s poignant historical novel "The Last Whaler". Tor loves whaling. Each summer, he leaves his family in Norway and sails to icy Svalbard to hunt. But... Read More

An adventurer who perseveres even when the task is unpleasant models hard work in the historical novel "The Pioneer Adventures of Chen Sing". George Chiang’s illustrated novel "The Pioneer Adventures of Chen Sing" is a story of grit... Read More

A plucky mouse proves that one’s size does not determine one’s worth in the adventure-filled alternate history novel "Francisco Mouse". In M. Douglas McDonald’s adventure-filled children’s novel "Francisco Mouse", an intrepid... Read More

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

Serenella Quarello’s delightful and thoughtful reference text "Extinctopedia" focuses on various animals in danger of disappearing, with suggestions for what can be done to save them. Quarello catalogs more than 150 types of animals,... Read More

Four friends navigate a vibrant, magic-filled world and decide where their priorities lie in the fantasy novel "The Caves of Wonder". Kirsten Marion’s Lucy and Dee fantasy novel "The Caves of Wonder" follows an eclectic group’s quest... Read More