Marty Chan’s fascinating "Metamorphosis" takes place in a steampunk, alternate reality version of early twentieth-century New York City, wherein interdimensional travelers and Earth’s natives clash. Ehrich Weisz, a former demon... Read More

"The Good Hawk" imagines a mythological medieval Scotland whose mainland was devastated by plague and whose outer island clans are struggling to survive. On the Isle of Skye, Jaime is a reluctant teen from the Clann a Tuath. He’s... Read More

Continuing her inventive reimagining of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer blends magic, romance, and the growing specter of war in "A Heart So Fierce and Broken". With the curse broken and the enchantress Lilith defeated, Prince Rhen... Read More

When Maya reveals to the school principal that her boyfriend, Mike, has been hitting her, North Bay Academy fractures down its center, forcing Maya and those around her to come to terms with cracks within themselves. Shifting... Read More

Micah Good’s "The Opposite of Falling Apart" includes a meet-cute, angst, and lots of introspection as its characters confront weighty issues. Jonas, an amputee, and Brennan, a girl with severe anxiety, are hardly a perfect match, but... Read More

A story told in seasons, L. B. Simmons’s We, The Wildflowers unfolds across a little more than a year as Chloe enters foster care and the group home that changes her life in radical ways. The Wildflowers—made up of Genesis, Adam,... Read More

In 1917, Maria Bochkareva commanded the Women’s Battalion of Death, a unit in the Russian army that fought against invading Germany. In Amber Lough’s novel "Open Fire", this episode in women’s military history is the piercing... Read More

A girl’s existence threatens to envelop the world in war in the graphic novel Wonder Woman: Warbringer. Diana, a young princess on the island of Themyscira, is eager to prove herself a worthy Amazon. In the midst of an important race... Read More