May 9, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
On the heels of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone and Natasha Bowen’s Skin of the Sea comes a new foray into the epic world of Yoruba gods and monsters. Deborah Falaye’s young adult ... Read More »
Mariko Tamaki’s Cold begins as a murder mystery, but from the moment Todd’s ghost lays eyes upon his own body, he remembers being bullied by his classmates and the story’s melancholic undercurrent becomes clear. Despite ... Read More »
May 2, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Fawad Chaudhry has one dream in life: to make it to the NBA. But before that can happen, he needs his mother to let him try out for the school basketball team. The 15-year-old admits ... Read More »
April 27, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Peanut Butter and Chaos is the first entry in Anita Daher’s new middle-grade fantasy series, The Mythic Adventures of Samuel Templeton, where real science meets imagination. Sam Templeton has been brought up by his distracted ... Read More »
April 20, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Andre Fenton has delivered a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story in his newest novel, The Summer Between Us. Eighteen-year-old Adrian Carter struggles as he prepares to finish high school and tries to find his place ... Read More »
April 13, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Six hundred and four thousand, eight hundred: the number of seconds in the last week of Flippa’s life. The narrator’s gran is called Flippa because for years she put on her wetsuit and flippers every ... Read More »
April 6, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
June Hur pens a taut, engrossing historical mystery in The Red Palace. Four women are murdered, and the main suspect is the beloved mentor of 18-year-old Hyeon, a palace nurse. Hyeon teams up with Inspector ... Read More »
March 22, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Can bringing together a group of traumatized friends and school acquaintances help eight teenagers overcome their struggles and move on with their lives? This is the premise of Kern Carter’s latest novel, Boys and Girls ... Read More »
March 15, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Set in Brooklyn at the height of the Reagan era, Moonwalking follows two boys, JJ and Pie, as they navigate a world entrenched in the political and racial mire of a deeply divided America. Pie ... Read More »
March 9, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
For as long as she can remember, Rowena has heard the wind speaking to her, and has known that magic lives inside her – a magic her mother Mairead deems Rowena too hotheaded to master. ... Read More »
February 7, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books