Supernatural horrors meet frank discussions of mental health in Ethan and Naomi Sacks’s bighearted graphic novel "A Haunted Girl". After a suicide attempt and a stay in a psychiatric ward, Cleo struggles to reintegrate. She avoids her... Read More

A girl in a whaling village investigates several disappearances in Crystal J. Bell’s mesmerizing historical novel "The Lamplighter". Even as self-reliant eighteen-year-old Temperance mourns her father, who was hanged, she takes up his... Read More

Nera and Lucy are two sisters who live on the moon, and that’s about all they have in common. All they can agree on is their Luna Fish, Moona—until Nera agrees to sell her to an aquarium. As the sisters set out to deliver Moona to... Read More

The spiritual wellness guide "Brilliant Emotions" shares advice for transforming difficult feelings into sources of courage, connectedness, and clarity. With the belief that emotional states are fleeting and do not define one’s... Read More

In T. L. Simpson’s moving coming-of-age novel "Strong Like You", a high school student in Arkansas struggles to understand what happened to his missing father. When the book begins, Walker’s father is already gone without... Read More

An origin story for the Pansy Project, a movement that plants pansies at sites of homophobic acts around the world, this picture book follows an unnamed boy as he struggles through and rises above homophobic bullying. The gentle boy... Read More

"The Rise of the Legends" is a horizon-expanding ensemble adventure novel that’s filled with STEM-related action and inquiries. In Jake Zortman’s riddle-filled quest novel "The Rise of the Legends", a new student makes a fresh group... Read More

The first book in the Alex and Jordan Explore series, "The Big Aquarium Adventure" centers marine life and its allure. In Nancy Roop’s educational chapter book "The Big Aquarium Adventure", a fourth grader recounts his first visit to... Read More