"Sycophants" is a quintessentially eighties novel in which two friends who came of age together learn how to seize and share the spotlight. Linda Gould’s novel "Sycophants" is set in the late 1980s, as former college roommates navigate... Read More

In Darlene Beck-Jacobson’s poignant novel in verse, Wishes, Dares, & How to Stand Up to a Bully, a boy copes with the absence of his father, who is missing in action during the Vietnam War. Eleven-year-old Jack, with his mother and... Read More

Informative and entertaining, Bucket Showers & Baby Goats is an illuminating memoir about time spent volunteering in Ghana. Christine Brown’s memoir Bucket Showers & Baby Goats is about volunteering in a West African farming... Read More

Brian Leung’s "Ivy vs. Dogg" delivers a stinging commentary of how unchecked voyeurism has impacted modern politics, making it a politician’s business to get into everybody’s business. This Election for the internet age is a heady,... Read More

On August 5, 2015, EPA staffers were investigating a portal of Gold King Mine in the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado when an excavator set off a gush of water. Within minutes, three million gallons of bright orange,... Read More

Written in a relaxed and friendly style, this book offers practical advice for helping young children interact with their peers. Shonna Tuck writes with empathy about the difficulties some small children face as they attempt to interact... Read More

Phoebe isn’t exactly sure why her family has suddenly relocated from sunny California to a dismal stone monstrosity in Grenshire, England, but she does know it has something to do with her. "Haunted", the first book in Lynn... Read More

The fascinating, cringe-worthy, exhilarating life of Howard Hughes flies off the page. Howard Hughes is one of the twentieth century’s strangest enigmas, and Luke Davies’s "God of Speed", a fictionalized account of Hughes’s life,... Read More