A chapter book about a boy coming out of his shell in a new town, "The Crafter" is a fun tribute to gaming. Popular roleplayer and sandbox console games are invoked in Dan Sugralinov’s fantasy novel "The Crafter", in which a lonely... Read More

"Sheli" is a lesson-filled Christian picture book in which a sheep learns to place the good of others before herself. Deanna Danielle’s earnest Christian picture book "Sheli" considers God’s concern for people through the familiar... Read More

In Susan Sullivan’s uplifting chapter book "Bob Tales", a stray feline is rescued, seeks adventures, and learns that he’s capable and loved. At first mangy and unnamed, Bob is a black cat who scavenges on the streets and retreats... Read More

In Krysta Tawlks’s suspenseful fantasy novel "Children of the Wild", a teenager inherits the power to transform into a mythological creature. In the early twentieth century, fourteen-year-old Elbert is a farm boy living in the Salinas... Read More

Ellis Nelson’s nostalgic fantasy novel "Down the Treacle Well" pays tribute to Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland through its story of American brothers who are transported into a Victorian world. Ben and his younger brother Kyle are at... Read More

In Teresa H. Janssen’s impressionistic historical novel "The Ways of Water", a girl comes of age in the American Southwest, facing multiple family struggles. In the early 1900s, Josie’s family lives in the New Mexico desert, where... Read More

In Liliana Corobca’s provocative novel "Kinderland", unsupervised children navigate a Moldovan village under the dutiful eye of their elder sister. Cristina, Marcel, and Dan are siblings. Their parents left to work in Italy and Russia.... Read More

A grieving antiquarian chases after a Kabbalistic manuscript in Jamieson Findlay’s absorbing mystery novel "Pilgrims of the Upper World". Zarandok, a secretive Jewish man, asks Tavish, a bookseller in Geneva, to revive his Aramaic... Read More