A spunky girl saves her town’s night sky in Katherine Child’s wonder-filled fantasy novel "The Notted Island". The rest of the world has been visited by long-awaited Colour, but Last Island remains in black and white. To complicate... Read More

A mother and her daughters stave off the end of the world in Donya Todd’s fantastical graphic novel The Witch’s Egg. Urfi, a cat witch, summons an angel in the hope of finding love and starting a family. The relationship doesn’t... Read More

Inspired by Tudor history, Autumn Krause’s "Grave Flowers" is an intriguing fantasy novel full of conflict and love. Madalina is princess of Radix, a staid kingdom known for its grave flowers, deadly magical plants. Her twin sister,... Read More

Intricate illustrations reminiscent of the I Spy book series open up the world of Emmie the mouse, an avid inventor who lives in a dollhouse-cum-Rube Goldberg machine in a cluttered attic. Everything is just the way she likes it—until... Read More

A classroom call to help those in need piques a child’s excitement and leads to self-realizations in the bittersweet picture book "One Can". After helping their class hit its goal of collecting one hundred cans for those with food... Read More

In Mariana Travacio’s compact and lyrical novel "All That Dies in April", a woman leaves the parched landscape of her village above the Argentinian pampas to search for the sea. For fourteen years, Lina begged her husband Relicario to... Read More

Complex identities and social pressures faced by Korean immigrants are examined in thrilling ways in Jinwoo Park’s existential thriller "Oxford Soju Club". Doha is a North Korean spy whose mysterious death yields a cryptic puzzle piece... Read More

A murder investigation and corporate intrigue tie into meditations on the fragility of justice in the thought-provoking thriller "Cross Examination". Efforts toward justice clash with corporate conspiracies in James E. Carroll’s... Read More