"Mislabeled as Disabled" is a bracing call to arms that challenges the state of American education. Struggling learners are routinely failed by academic institutions, stuck in an unending cycle of underachievement, as Kalman R.... Read More

At first, Sarah Carlson’s "All the Walls of Belfast" comes across as a solid variation of a meet-cute young adult romance, but Carlson’s story has even more going for it. The book and its two main characters grapple with the history... Read More

It’s impossible to see inside someone else’s mind to achieve true empathy, but Barbara Moran and Karl Williams’s "Hello, Stranger" comes close. Born in the early 1950s, Barbara Moran felt out of place and lonely for the first few... Read More

With style, accessible writing, and a narrative of personal growth and discovery, Leigh Calvez’s "The Breath of a Whale" is both more positive and more personal than other books of its type. It is a softer take on the environmental... Read More

Bryan Walsh is a marine corps deserter, former IRA bagman, and all around hard case. Back stateside after a stint in Ireland, he’s currently employed by a local gangster and barely scraping by, spending his days rubbing out low-lifes... Read More

Do they exist? What are they hiding from? Did one of those little suckers take my beloved stuffed teddy bear when I was three? These are the burning elf and dwarf questions keeping wanna-believers up at night, especially in parts of... Read More

An honest and easy-to-implement plan is paired with humor and empathy in Conor Richardson’s Millennial Money Makeover. Conor Richardson knows that millennials think differently about money. After personally going into debt after... Read More

A coming-of-age story inundated with grief, trauma, and uncertainty, Renée Watson’s "What Momma Left Me" is a heartbreaking and intense young adult novel. Thirteen-year-old Serenity finds herself in emotional turmoil as she tries to... Read More