Phung Nguyen Quang and Huynh Kim Lien have created My First Day, a delightfully illustrated children’s story book about the magic and excitement of the “first day.” In this case, An is leaving home for his first day of school. It’s also the first day his mother has allowed him to take a boat out on …
This summer a highly anticipated title is the YA debut by the author of the adult title Mem. Morrow sets her story in a contemporary alternative world where portions of the population have various mythical abilities and identities. Inherent in these identities are built in assumptions and prejudices, the most heightened of which are towards “sirens,” …
While still a teenager, abolitionist Harriet Tubman received a head injury that left her with pain, dizziness, and visions. Coates reimagines her visions as something more. This tale of Hiram Walker, and enslaved half-white, half-black child of a slave and a plantation owner in the Antebellum South, weaves subtle magical realism into life as he …
Haunting and magical, Tigers, Not Daughters follows the lives of three young women one year after the death of their eldest sister, Ana — and it seems her presence still lingers. There’s Iridian, the writer; Rosa, the quiet observer; and Jessica, who strives to become the embodiment of who Ana once was. Now Ana leaves …
If Jane Austen and Octavia Butler got trapped in a decrepit mansion in México at the edge of a hurricane with a savvy 1950s Mazatec socialite and they all wrote a book by candle light as the mansion creaked and moaned, this would be that novel. Instantly hooking, this horror-thriller kept me up way after …
An action-packed and suspenseful story set in a sleepy little town of Sidwell, Massachusetts. People’s items are disappearing, strange messages are painted on store fronts and road signs. Something is flying around and through the town during the night. Read this book to uncover the mystery! –Jinny, The Well-Read Moose, Coeur d’Alene, ID This middle …
Anjali Banerjee is the author of five books for young readers and three for adults, the most recent of which, Haunting Jasmine, was published in February. Banerjee was born in Kolkata, India, but she grew up in Manitoba, Canada, and now lives in Olalla, Washington, on the Kitsap Peninsula, in a cabin in the woods. She …
