Pam and Jodi’s Journey is compelling as it portrays students raising consciousness and standing up for their rights. N.K. Beckley’s middle grade novel Pam and Jodi’s Journey is upbeat and informative. It focuses on a deaf student... Read More

"The Girl Who Lost Her Joy" is a hopeful book that shows that people with anxiety disorders don’t need to suffer alone. A joyful young girl’s life is turned upside down when she develops an anxiety disorder after a tragic loss in her... Read More

Recommended for anyone who’s been touched by ADHD, "The Boy Who Lost His Attention" is an informative story. DPA Weston’s "The Boy Who Lost His Attention", with illustrations by Leena AK, portrays attention deficit hyperactivity... Read More

In Donna Grassby’s moving debut, Kate’s Ring, a thirteen-year-old girl tries to hold her family together through hardships and tragedy. Kate is the oldest of six siblings. Her mother suffers from tuberculosis; her father is loving,... Read More

In Alex T. Smith’s amusing "Mr. Penguin and the Lost Treasure", a penguin sets up shop as a professional adventurer and receives his first case—but it is more than he bargained for. Mr. Penguin has just launched his business when he... Read More

In Michael Hutchinson’s clever middle grade mystery "The Case of Windy Lake", four precocious children are on a quest to find a missing archaeologist. The Mighty Muskrats—Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee—are cousins who spend their... Read More

In Jaco Jacobs’s "A Good Night for Shooting Zombies", Martin’s life is shattered the day his father is killed in a car accident. Two years later, his normally gregarious ex-actress mother is housebound, his sister is always out with... Read More

Adapting Asian folktales and fables to comics form, "Tamamo the Fox Maiden" delivers twenty-one tales from across the continent. Aside from the Japanese title story and “The Ballad of Mulan,” familiar to many because of the Disney... Read More