“A word of advice,” cautions Alexander, the narrator and hero of Andrew Levkoff’s The Bow of Heaven. “If you can possibly avoid it, do not get shot.” Such wry asides are plentiful in this tale of a Greek student “harvested... Read More

What happens when a family splinters apart? This is the main question posed in Rebecca Diamond’s emotionally moving memoir Saving the Kids: A Grandmother’s Story. Diamond writes about a two-year period where she saw her daughter fall... Read More

Abraham Lincoln once claimed his best friend was “the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read,” writes Augustin Stucker in his thoroughly researched and lively “dual biography” of the sixteenth president of the United States... Read More

A magical story about a missing girl with wings who can fly—and the disparate collection of earth-bound people who come to love her. Featuring extraordinary line drawings and original, direct writing: “The city didn’t really know... Read More

This stunning, artful tribute is without a false note. A middle school librarian/quilter seamlessly blends history about the everyday lives of slaves with musical, biblical, and quilting references. Complementary images by an... Read More

Refreshingly simple and endlessly entertaining, the stick is the essence of play. It “provides a starting point for the active imagination and the raw material for transformation into—almost anything.” It speaks a universal... Read More

Join teen psychic friends Jinx and Max on their adventure aiding in the Undergound Railroad effort. This capable duo of white children venture from their homes in the present-day North to the Antebellum South and back, to rescue a... Read More

Award-winning Indian artist Ramsingh Urveti tackles a seventeenth-century English poem in this stunningly modern book of white-on-charcoal and charcoal-on-white drawings and cutouts. The poem may be read two ways: either page by page or,... Read More