Taking the form of a dialogue between the past and the present, the social science inquiry "Africa" addresses topics including education, equality, ethnicity and race, epistemology, and history. An impassioned quest to uncover the hidden... Read More

Lisa Greenwald’s Ellie’s Deli: In a Pickle is the second illustrated book in a series about Ellie, a spunky eleven-year-old whose family owns a Jewish deli. In this installment, Ellie strives to stay on top of schoolwork and squash... Read More

"The Gospel of Fury" presents itself as an angelic dispatch for a troubled world. Ignatius Benjamin Fury’s religious treatise "The Gospel of Fury" purports to be the work of an angel sent from heaven with a message for Earth. Made up... Read More

"How to Hold a Glue Stick" is a concise reference guide for the parents of toddlers, suggesting means of developing healthy lifelong habits. Froukje M. Matthews’s guidebook for parents of toddlers, "How to Hold a Glue Stick", collects... Read More

Two aliens show off their cooking skills in Leila Boukarim’s entertaining graphic novel-cum-cookbook "Zips and Eeloo Make Hummus". Zips and Eeloo, natives of the planet Zooglebeep, have been on Earth for six days. As “Certified Human... Read More

In Hope Bolinger’s fantasy novel "Paintball with Dragons", a boy begins seeing dragons after the loss of his older brother. Thirty-six days ago, Mason died in a car accident from which brother Xander and the rest of his family escaped... Read More

Three friends interrogate, investigate, and draw conclusions based on their own creative ideas in the children’s mystery novel "The Case of the Missing Cheese". In Lisa C. Mitchell’s cozy children’s mystery novel "The Case of the... Read More

In Tory Christie’s novel "A Touch of Blue", a mysterious new neighbor changes how a girl sees the world and its unusual people. Celie, the only girl in her fourth-grade class, has only one friend, Junior. But Junior betrays her by... Read More