Maud Macrory Powell’s *City of Grit and Gold *is a historical novel that places a family conflict at the center of a political battle, raising questions about privilege, duty, and assimilation. Twelve-year-old Addie lives with her... Read More

In this touching and heartbreaking novel, a young girl struggles to fit together parts of her life while dealing with a traumatic brain injury, navigating the mazes of family, friendship, and personal identity. Lorna Schultz... Read More

Elana K. Arnold’s "What Girls Are Made Of" is realistic fiction at its most touching, following one young girl’s struggles to make her way through the world using a broken frame. Her attempts to free herself from that limitation, and... Read More

In this sweet romance, author Kate Watson explores family, obligations, and the weight of the past. "Seeking Mansfield" is about one young girl’s journey to discover her own desires after suppressing them for so long. Sixteen-year-old... Read More

It’s not often that one sees successful cross-pollination between the worlds of comics and music, but Dave Chisholm accomplishes just that with his graphic novel (and accompanying soundtrack) "Instrumental". Chisholm is an accomplished... Read More

The name Audubon is synonymous with ornithology, but it’s the man behind the famous wildlife paintings that’s revealed in Fabien Grolleau and Jérémie Royer’s beautiful graphic novel, Audubon: On the Wings of the World. The... Read More

A robot who knows Kung Fu and loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches battles a chicken who aims to, of course, steal all the peanut butter and jelly he can find, in The Adventures of Kung Fu Robot: How to Make a Peanut Butter, Jelly... Read More

The legend of the Golem is brought to modern-day Yonkers, New York, in the graphic novel "Brik", by Adam Glass, Michael Benson, and Harwinder Singh. After twelve-year-old Drew loses his grandfather to gang violence, he successfully... Read More