Sheila Moeschen’s celebratory travel guide "Book Lovers’ New England" tours through the homes, museums, and sites that inspired local poets and writers. New England has fostered numerous talents, including Emily Dickinson, Robert... Read More

Luna was the best dog a boy could ask for, brought home from the farmer’s market when the narrator was six. She taught him patience, openness in friendships, kindness, support, and love. Losing her devastated him to the extent that he... Read More

Anthropomorphized mice—a father and his child–go on an observational adventure in this sweet picture book about how all creatures and elements work their ways back home. The young mouse is eager to come along when their father says... Read More

This awe-inducing ecological meditation in picture book form invites readers on a “never-ending journey through time and space.” Its ethereal, luxuriant illustrations overlay ghostly images of trees and people atop verdant landscapes... Read More

In the late 1960s, a grieving twelve-year-old navigates the limitations of her group home in "Doubles", Nora Gold’s poignant novella about a derailed girlhood. Before her mother died, the narrator’s life on her family farm was... Read More

Set among a New Jersey synagogue’s staff and congregants in the month prior to the October 7, 2023 attacks, Nathaniel Popkin’s sobering novel "Partly Strong, Partly Broken" reveals the discord already roiling in liberal Jewish... Read More

After plentiful study, Sweetpea knows “everything there is to know” about mermaids. In this natural history in miniature, she teaches other cryptozoology-curious kids about the creatures: glamorous sea mermaids who loathe plastic bag... Read More

In this cheering picture book about nature’s reclamation of abandoned human spaces (published in English and Spanish), a summer-built house delights in the warmth provided by the family that dwells within it. The family’s diverse... Read More