"My Friend Gideon" is an educational picture book that suggests ways to take care of animals and the natural environment. Heather S. Lonczak’s "My Friend Gideon" is a sweet picture book about a girl’s love for an endangered frog.... Read More

"Jamylah and the Giants" is an imaginative illustrated story in which a young girl is charged with restoring an ancient civilization. Adrian Brooks Collins’s encouraging and engaging "Jamylah and the Giants" teaches compassion,... Read More

In Anthony Varallo’s evocative and taut "The Lines", the end of a marriage brings about an unsettling beginning for a family. Set during the 1970s and amid oil and gasoline shortages, the US’s scarcity of fuel and the public’s... Read More

Carla Marie Manly’s inspiring "Aging Joyfully" recognizes that, from birth, people are pushed to let go and move from one developmental stage to the next. While adulthood is met with eagerness, she says, later years are regarded as... Read More

Throughout the ages, humans have always found ingenious ways to kill each other, but a bloodletting milestone was surely reached when the great powers of the classical world—the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, et... Read More

Lyz Lenz’s "God Land" is a nuanced examination of the political, personal, and religious complexity of middle America. Beginning with Lenz’s own faith-filled dream of a new church (one which ended up dissolving) and the challenge of... Read More

Cora, her twin brother Kyle, and their friend Sybella have been inseparable since the second grade. As they start fifth grade, though, conflict arises between Cora and Sybella, and their best-friendship seems doomed. Told through the... Read More

Irrepressible ten-year-olds Pearl, Halinka, and Millie are determined to save their beloved school in Miss Bunsen’s School for Brilliant Girls, the first title in Erica-Jane Waters’s lively new chapter book series. It features a trio... Read More