Grab some safety goggles and put on your thinking caps along with Izzy as she does her best to wow the judges at the invention convention. Izzy is a high-energy innovator with a bold fashion sense, wild hair, and big red glasses who is... Read More

A clever cat introduces a silly dog to the joys of creating words and worlds by rearranging the alphabet. Emergent readers will enjoy the comic back-and-forth banter and the sketch art that pokes a bit of good-humored fun at the... Read More

In Jean Mills’s insightful "Larkin on the Shore", a sixteen-year-old struggles to overcome an assault and the gossip and cyberbullying that follow it. While her father visits her sick mother in Vancouver, Larkin is sent to stay with... Read More

In Laura Pohl’s absorbing "The First 7", the last seven teenagers on Earth, having escaped an alien invasion, rove the universe. When a signal from Earth reaches them, they return to find a small community of survivors. But Clover... Read More

Robin Hemley’s erudite essay collection "Borderline Citizen" probes the meaning of nationality. Profiling enclaves and exclaves, overseas territories, and displaced people, the essays reveal the human and environmental costs of... Read More

Jim Kristofic grew up tracking “the trail of animals while ranging in the wilderness … where narrative intelligence started in humans.” His memoir, "Reservation Restless", acts as another chapter in a long string of human stories.... Read More

Family abuse and the complex secrets surrounding it are at the heart of Michael J. Malone’s new thriller In the Absence of Miracles. John is struggling to live a normal life. He teaches at a local high school and spends time with... Read More

Michael Lanning’s "The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson" reveals that, more than ten years before Rosa Parks’s refusal to move to the back of the bus, a young black army officer also defied such an order. For taking that stand and... Read More