After coming in past curfew yet again, Beto’s usual argument with his father takes a violent turn. He has been threatening to run away for weeks, and now Beto takes off into the night, deserting his parents and his younger brother... Read More

For parents tired of their ADD/ADHD children’s forgetfulness, lost homework, messy bedrooms, and tantrums over chores, there’s help in this easy-to-read yet long-lasting guide. Building on her previous book Clean Your Room…So I Can... Read More

William Kowalski’s "The Way It Works" is a contemporary Horatio Alger tale, featuring a determined young man who succeeds because of his goodness and ingenuity. Walter Davis is biracial, twenty years old, and homeless in New York City.... Read More

The ghost of Sylvia Plath seems to hover gently over Karla Kelsey’s newest offering, "Iteration Nets". With a lyrical ease and an interest in linking and exploding traditional forms, Kelsey is clearly an heir to Plath’s intensity.... Read More

Michael Indemaio’s "Exaltation", which strives to convey the poet’s “passion and pain,” takes its philosophical inspiration from Romantic poet John Keats’ renowned statement, “beauty is truth, truth beauty.” Unfortunately,... Read More

Young visitors to the ForeWord office found this book right away; they recommend it for its humor. Beeky Airlines is the creation of fourteen-year-old Seth Campos. In it, Carl and his friends Ben the bear and Beeky (yep, it’s a bird)... Read More

When Betsy Franco’s young Ovid reflects Seems like we’re all just groping our way through a labyrinth fighting our personal minotaurs morphing into who we really are like it or not he seems to be chan-neling his namesake sharing the... Read More

“We are passive onlookers in a world that moves perpetually. Our only moment of creation is that 1/125th of a second when the shutter clicks, the signal is given, and the motion is stopped.”[/i] —Henri Cartier-Bresson Alfred... Read More