A shipwreck is usually a disaster, but Arnold is a resourceful elephant calf, with a built-in snorkel-slash-horn. He makes it safely to an island the size of his feet and signals for help. The one impediment to his rescue? He’s not... Read More

In Charles A. Bush’s young adult novel "Every Variable of Us", Alexis, a high school basketball star, dreams of receiving a college scholarship and pursuing a professional basketball career. Both are her ticket out of West... Read More

Daryl loves Dinosaurs, but his copy of the book truly belongs to the library, and his cycle of perpetually renewing it hits a snag when someone else places the book on hold. Though he summons all of the dinosaur tricks that the book... Read More

In Jennifer Haupt’s keen-edged, intimate novel "Come As You Are", an intense, imperfect bond yields to more expansive resilience. Skye and Zane first meet in 1987. Growing up in 1990s Seattle, they watch their offbeat city become an... Read More

Teenage outcasts have to save their small town from a bloodthirsty monster by teaming up with their bully in Brett Riley’s fantasy novel "Freaks". Since grade school, Gabby, Micah, Jamie, and Christian have been bullied by B3, a group... Read More

This unconventional alphabet book teaches children their ABCs alongside respect for language diversity. Here, f is for butterfly—flutur in Albanian—and octopus starts with a t—tako, from Japanese. Sixty-nine languages are... Read More

A young man is drawn to the culinary arts and a coworker in the romantic graphic novel Chef’s Kiss. Ben, a recent college graduate with an English degree and aspirations of becoming a writer, is having difficulty finding work in his... Read More

Roman historians have cast Hannibal Barca as a cruel, uncouth barbarian, but Philip Freeman’s panoramic biography "Hannibal" supplies evidence that the great Carthaginian military leader, whose strategic and tactical genius has been... Read More