In the gritty novel "Garbage Boy", a principled high schooler’s mundane life takes a dangerous turn. In Michael McMullen’s bleak coming-of-age novel "Garbage Boy", a teenager’s family struggles are complicated by issues of drugs,... Read More

In Linda DeMeulemeester’s historical novel Ephemia Rimaldi, a lonely girl searches for her estranged father. In Canada in the early 1900s, Effy dodges rotten tomatoes and insults on the streets of Toronto alongside her suffragist Aunt... Read More

In Thomas Tidholm’s chapter book "To the Ice", young explorers traverse a frozen world. Jack and Max are brothers. With their friend Ida, they play in the frozen creek behind their home. But the day takes a turn when the ice floe they... Read More

"Just Arrived" is an eye-opening novel in which an immigrant learns to live in a new, strange world. A Nigerian immigrant runs into challenges while navigating his new home in Bona Udeze’s novel "Just Arrived". Emeka begins the long... Read More

Three friends interrogate, investigate, and draw conclusions based on their own creative ideas in the children’s mystery novel "The Case of the Missing Cheese". In Lisa C. Mitchell’s cozy children’s mystery novel "The Case of the... Read More