“The Texas grid is a land flowing with milk, honey, and countless ways to die” in Lyndsey Lewellen’s exciting novel "The Crier Stone", in which a girl works to save the corrupt city she escaped. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland,... Read More

Patterns and textures layer in the jewel-toned collage illustrations of this exquisite picture book that honors the bond between mother and child. A girl muses on all the memories held in her mother’s scent: happy days, rosy cheeks,... Read More

Kathleen B. Casey’s cultural survey "The Things She Carried" examines purses, pocketbooks, and handbags not through a fashion lens, but as “fraught but vital object[s]” with fascinating histories. The book’s evocative case... Read More

Jane Kurtz’s touching memoir in verse "Oh Give Me a Home" is about belonging and sisterhood. In Maji, Ethiopia, young Kurtz and her family laid down roots after her father helped the community build a waterwheel. As a child, Kurtz... Read More

Nikki Nash’s frank, funny memoir "Collateral Stardust" is about growing up in an offbeat Los Angeles family. Nash was the sensitive oldest child in an unconventional family in the 1960s. Her father was a show-business trombonist and... Read More

Cary Gitter’s "Cammy Sitting Shiva" is a poignant, often humorous novel about learning through loss. Cammy is trying to figure out her life. Her playwriting class is the last in a string of courses intended to further her stymied... Read More

"Feed Us with Trees" is Elspeth Hay’s measured, engrossing exploration of nut trees as significant food sources, connecting sweeping concepts in world history, environmental studies, and agronomy. Unpacking food myths, the book... Read More

This heartfelt picture book is a primer on recycling with a lesson on passing along items we no longer need. Teddy accompanies his father on a trip to the dump to sort their recyclables, watch the bulldozers and trash compactors, and... Read More