"A Thousand Trails Home" mixes lush nature writing, evocations of a lifetime of hunting and living off of the land, and a portrait of Alaska’s unique culture and history. At the center of it all are caribou, the life-sustaining herds... Read More

Moose lives in the woods. He’s fortunate to be able to travel into town when he wants a new book; not all of the creatures around him are so lucky. Moose hosts story time, but his home gets crowded, so he conceives of a solution to... Read More

Marvano’s historical graphic novel "The Jewish Brigade" covers the group that fought as part of the British Army in World War II. In the weeks after Nazi Germany’s surrender, Leslie Toliver, a member of the Jewish Brigade, is on a... Read More

Melding the language of prophecies with that of fairy tales and whispered dreams, Newbery Medal winner Kate DiCamillo’s latest novel for young readers is both feminist and sweet. The world knew Beatryce was coming before she... Read More

Inspired by Finnish mythology and folklore, "Oksi" is a grand, memorable graphic novel about family, jealousy, and love. Umi is a mother bear with several cubs. One, Poorling, is different from the others. Scaup, a primordial god in the... Read More

“Planets are born from the chaos of countless collisions,” Simone Marchi writes in "Colliding Worlds", which cites everything from lunar craters to gold seams as evidence of interplanetary impacts. Space rocks have not existed from... Read More

In Mariana Dimópulos’s novel "Imminence", a woman fears the resurgence of her aimless, unhappy past. Though she’s been pressured to marry, have children, and behave in subservient, restrictive ways, the narrator doesn’t fit the... Read More

"In the Aftermath" is a masterful novel in which a man’s suicide leaves indelible marks on those he left behind. In Jane Ward’s novel "In the Aftermath", a man’s decision to take his own life has far-reaching effects on others.... Read More