A boy who can visualize the effects of what people say or feel comes into his own in the intriguing novel "Energy Wars". In Jodi Dee’s fantasy novel "Energy Wars", a teenager discovers that emotions are more powerful, complex, and... Read More

A thought-provoking and entertaining novel, "Forever We Dream" follows triplets in their pursuit to find their missing mother. In Mark Workman’s charming novel "Forever We Dream", teenage triplets use a talent competition to search for... Read More

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the least-populated region in the lower 48. Walking a riverbank, you are more likely to meet a black bear, wolf, bobcat, or whitetail deer than you are a human—which is why M. Bartley Seigel calls the UP... Read More

If you walk long enough to see your hair turn gray, fending brush from your face through starless nights, note taking to the cadence of seasons, your poetry will reach great heights—that is, if Kelly Shepherd’s modus operandi holds... Read More

Trifle, in poet speak, refers to what doesn’t make the cut, to all of the musings and ideas that are deemed unworthy—why bother? Trifle, in other words, offers a wonderful window into a poets head and what they care to keep top of... Read More

Neuroscientists speculate that humans might have thirty or more senses, and we speculate that Patrycja Humienik’s acute sense of longing for a place that no longer exists on a map affects the way she perceives all the others. She is an... Read More

In Kate Gray Glass’s fantasy novel "The Keys of Persephone", a ghost without memories and a witch without powers form an alliance to stop a series of mysterious murders. Lane is a ghost tasked with capturing unruly denizens of the... Read More

This cosmic counting book is an inviting introduction to the solar system. Covering the sun and each of the nine planets—Pluto included—the book anthropomorphizes various elements of outer space as it walks children through numbers... Read More