"Trevor Lee and the Big Uh-Oh!" is funny and heartwarming, with a memorable lead whose challenges are easy to relate to. In Wiley Blevins’s thoroughly charming "Trevor Lee and the Big Uh-Oh!", Trevor is in third grade and struggling to... Read More

Aiming to inspire young artists, this fantasy story hits its mark. In Stephen Evans’s "Painting Sunsets", a young girl finds her creative calling at a completely unexpected time and place. Twelve-year old Lissa is the daughter of... Read More

Entertaining and accessible, "The Adventures of Phatty and Payaso" is a fun early chapter book that emphasizes bravery and compassion. In Marie Unanue’s early reader The Adventures of Phatty and Payaso: Central Park, two cats and their... Read More

The rebellious Tash and cautious Sam are 12-year-old best friends living in a world full of rules, all with the same goal: avoid confrontation with the Chinese soldiers occupying their country, Tibet. But their careful lives are... Read More

"You Gotta Have Heart" is a beautiful story, both sad and hopeful. Bruce Bernstein’s emotional "You Gotta Have Heart" follows a young boy who lives in a group home as he searches out his place in the world—and people he can share it... Read More

"The Acadia Files" introduces kids to science via the readily observable principles and easy-to-reproduce experiments of its precocious and endlessly curious lead character, Acadia, who’s enjoying the summer before she enters fifth... Read More

Josef Bastian’s Excerpts from an Unknown Guidebook is a polished, thoroughly engaging fantasy for tweens and young adults. Aaron Anderson seems ordinary in every way—until he learns he’s been chosen to succeed his grandfather Pap... Read More

In Krista Van Dolzer’s dystopian novel, "Earth to Dad", the world has been razed by climate change, and humanity’s best option is to colonize Mars. But eleven-year-old Jameson O’Malley just wants his dad to return from the red... Read More