"Kindness Matters" is a charming picture book in which friends work together to solve a problem. Antoinette Clark’s picture book "Kindness Matters" follows bees who are collecting honey to share with the rest of their hive. Sadie wakes... Read More

Personal vendettas lead to political upheaval in Tim Murgatroyd’s "Pilgrim Tale". A hundred years in the future, after the Great Dying has wiped out much of the world’s population, Michael Pilgrim and his family and friends in... 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 search of ultimate freedom, a broken young girl transforms after a devastating tragedy in Philip Kazan’s "The Phoenix of Florence". Choosing the path of a soldier and then a master swordsman, Onoria completely abandons her former... Read More

"Chronic Blessings" is an enlightening memoir about chronic illness and persistence. An uplifting memoir about living with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Cristy Maddox’s "Chronic Blessings" is an inspiring, faith-driven... Read More

Unicorns in literature are fascinating, evocative, mysterious, and elusive, and with "The Unicorn Anthology", editors Peter S. Beagle—himself of unicorn fame—and Jacob Weisman invite continued appreciation of the legendary beast,... Read More

Written to honor youth activists Janna Jihad Ayyad and her cousin Ahed Tamimi, Naomi Shihab Nye’s "The Tiny Journalist" uses poetry to blend stories and speak truth to power about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Amid unfathomable... Read More

"Gillyflower" is an intelligent romance about frustrated encounters. In Diane Wald’s meditative literary novel "Gillyflower", a fan is beguiled with an actor. In 1984, Nora watches an Irish “actor’s actor,” Hugh, perform in a... Read More