A Black girl comes of age, refining her conceptions of love and family, in Avery Irons’s incandescent historical novel "Belonging to the Air", set amid the Great Migration. In the early twentieth century, Bird is raised apart from the... Read More

About redefining personal success and turning one’s visions into reality, "Live Your Opus" is an encouraging self-help book. Inspired by the soul-searching that followed a sudden loss, Janine Mathó’s supportive self-help book "Live... Read More

In this imagination-awakening, sympathetic picture book about homesickness and becoming your own heroine, Ren is crushed when she learns that her family is going to emigrate, leaving her grandmother, whose story times are a highlight of... Read More

A little boy notices everything on his and his mother’s morning commute in this bright picture book. He observes those who share the train’s space with them as well as the puddle at the subway station. His favorite part of the trip,... Read More

Nou, a Hmong girl, loves her home, though some people are determined to make her family feel unwelcome. Following an act of vandalism, Nou reflects on the racism that they, and other Hmong people in their community, face. She begins to... Read More

In this comforting picture book about embracing one’s family culture, Nuha arrives in Oman to visit her grandmother after years apart. The visit starts out on a melancholy note: Nuha accidentally left her favorite doll behind. But as... Read More

Morgan Boecher’s emotive graphic novel "Chicken Heart" is an exploration of individual gender identity. Just before working a stand-up comedy set, Jackie reads a letter from the Chicken Heart Love Commune informing him of the death and... Read More

In Andrée Poulin’s haunting, empathetic novel-in-verse "Planting Sunshine", a boy tries to understand war from the safety of his home. Theo’s story opens on an ordinary afternoon, when he’s playing basketball with his father. But... Read More