A college student and her friends navigate a complicated web of relationships in the graphic novel "How Could You", a fond, realistic view of early adulthood. Molly is depressed after a breakup email from Olene, who’s away in Europe... Read More

"Not Good Enough Girl" is a complex memoir about innocence interrupted. Sondra R. Brooks’s riveting memoir "Not Good Enough Girl" is about family dysfunction, abuse, and addiction. When Brooks was five, she began navigating her... Read More

Fleshing out a family story with imagination and admiration for its heroine, "Surviving Southwood Avenue" is an inspiring historical novel. In Melissa Simonye’s historical novel "Surviving Southwood Avenue", a girl’s Depression-era... Read More

A message of love and equality is centered in "Magda Revealed", a piquing alternative historical novel that reconstitutes a figure whose significance was buried in the Bible. In Ursula Werner’s illuminating novel "Magda Revealed", Mary... Read More

Spanning decades, including China’s Cultural Revolution and the Vietnam War, the historical novel "Wu Lou" is both poignant and tragic. In Lu Xinhua’s affecting, ultimately hopeful historical novel "Wu Lou", love, philosophy, and joy... Read More

An immortal, indefatigable hero works with a cadre of displaced gods to stop an apocalyptic plot in the fantasy novel "Fairies Sorcery and the Greek Gods". In Donald R. Richter’s fantasy novel "Fairies Sorcery and the Greek Gods", Baba... Read More

A middle schooler seeks the courage to pursue his dreams amid mockery and an abusive home situation in Corinne Gaile’s novel "Saving Kenny". Twelve-year-old Kenny accompanies his older sister to the opera, expecting to be bored.... Read More

A fairy tale with an edge, Stefanie vor Schulte’s "Boy with a Black Rooster" explores a vast land afflicted by cruelty and ill fortune. Martin is a kindhearted orphan whose father went insane and killed the rest of his family. Looked... Read More