The ten-year-old boy who wasn’t cast as Harry Potter faces a lifetime of anxiety and doubt in David Foenkinos’s poignant novel "Second Best". Martin Hill’s life begins when a producer offers him an audition for the role of Harry... Read More

Acclaimed food blogger and columnist Michal Korkosz’s "Polish’d" brims with dazzling recipes and inviting stories––virtuosic, vegetarian takes on traditional Polish cuisine with multicultural influences. Organized by cooking... Read More

The members of an Algerian immigrant family cope with their losses but retain their dignity in Faïza Guène’s novel "Discretion". Yamina left Algeria for the first time as a child, during the war with France in the 1950s. Since then,... Read More

Every type of family is acknowledged and celebrated in this affirming picture book. The detailed illustrations give a nod to realism, with special attention being paid to the diverse variety of faces throughout; numerous races, sexual... Read More

Dreamy colored pencil illustrations elevate this alphabet book to a work of art. “Inspired Iguanas Improvising on Ice” and a “Unique Unicorn Using a Unicycle” are just a few of the quirky creatures children will come across in... Read More

In Jaclyn Moriarty’s kaleidoscopic fantasy novel "The Secret of Lillian Velvet", a girl armed with a pickle jar full of coins contends with loneliness and otherworldly derring-do. Ten-year-old Lillian lives in Australia with her... Read More

In this inspiring tale, Mimi is an aspiring “mousetro” who is abandoned by her brothers. They insist that girls cannot be mousetros. Mimi packs her breadstick baton and sets off; she meets a magical maestro who gifts her with a... Read More

In Eskor David Johnson’s thrilling literary novel Pay as You Go, a barber careens through an imaginary metropolis in search of a place to call home. Two months after moving to sprawling Polis, Slide shares an apartment with an... Read More