"Return to Coney Island" is an imaginative story that will transport readers to the historical Coney Island with its young protagonists. Melissa Stoller’s juvenile fantasy... Read More

Within an extraordinary setting, Will and his friends learn some straightforward lessons in the relatable "Will of the Hill". In Marshall Cobb’s lighthearted middle-grade... Read More

Full of sorrow and longing, Adam Garnet Jones’s "Fire Song" is a beautifully written story about self-discovery and navigating the difficult path between dreams and... Read More

Penelope is a fifth-grader in Oakland, California. She loves basketball and her moms, and is excited that she will soon be a big sister. Her parents give her a journal to write... Read More

Another wacky adventure with Waldo Baron, better know as W.B., arrives with "The Wonderful Baron Doppelgänger Device", in which someone has used W.B.‘s parents’ latest... Read More

"Fox Magic" is the emotionally harrowing story of Chance, a twelve-year-old girl struggling to deal with the suicides of her two best friends. The three had made a suicide pact,... Read More

From its very first outrageous sentence, Paul Noth’s "How to Sell Your Family to the Aliens" is hysterically funny. An evil grandmother, an oblivious father, an absent mother,... Read More

In Kristen Witucki’s emotionally gripping novel, young Tallie struggles for self-acceptance against other people’s expectations and beliefs, particularly around her... Read More

In the poignant "No Sad Songs", teenage Gabe is not particularly popular. He loves baseball and poetry. His best friend is John. And his grandfather lives with his family and... Read More

Gwendolyn Gray does not fit in. She lives in a monochromatic world where everyone and everything is ordinary. Her bright red hair, crazy imagination, and tendency to find... Read More

Advice on diets and nutrition is plentiful, particularly on the internet; figuring out what advice to follow is confusing. In The Angry Chef’s Guide, Anthony Warner provides... Read More

The book’s characters are a fun cast that includes fairies, wizards, ghosts, and mermaids. Familiar fantastical beasts get fresh twists. B. C. R. Fegan’s engaging picture... Read More