This is Sword & Sorcery at its finest! There is swashbuckling action and adventure aplenty, but also a good deal of heart and character development as well. The plot will keep you guessing the whole way through…and this is the first in a series of six (although each book stands alone), so there’s plenty more […]
This book has been described as “The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars” and I couldn’t agree more. When Simon, the creator of the school’s gossip app, mysteriously dies in detention, the police are suspicious of everyone who was also in detention that day. Bronwyn – the Ivy league bound valedictorian Addy – the pretty, […]
The Wicker King is a strange, mixed-media book that is sure to be a polarizing addition to our collection. It follows two best friends as one uncovers a fantasy kingdom and a dark quest that may or may not be a descent into madness. Told through traditional narrative as well as photos, music, and ephemera […]
Pashmina is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel focusing on, Priyanka, a high school student who’s just won a contest for her cartoons. This contest provides Priyanka the opportunity to travel to India, where all her family’s from. Priyanka has never been, and it takes a lot on convincing to get her mother to agree for […]
A bunch of mice in colorful race cars try to outmaneuver each other in this fast-paced, near-wordless, action-packed romp for the young fans of all things cars. Right at the starting line young readers know they will be in for a turbulent contest when a mouse in a blue car sneezes just as the race […]
Gianna Marino is a chameleon as an illustrator. When you look at her comical cautionary tale Too Tall Houses, you notice that it’s very different from the melancholic whale bonding tale Following Papa’s Song or the slapsticky Night Animals. I love those books, and others by her, but I have to say If I Had a Horse may now be my […]
Very few picture book artists create warmer or cozier illustrations than Vanessa Brantley-Newton. In this delightful and sweet slice of life story, a little girl has her grandma, affectionately called “Mimi”, show her the contents of her purse. The loving grandmother explains the significance of the objects, from the hairpins that help manage her hair […]
An updated origin story for Diana, princess of Themyscira by the author of the Grisha Trilogy and Six of Crows. Our story opens with Diana saving a drowning Alia and her subsequent adventure in man’s world to end an ancient line of Warbringers – descendants of Helen and catalysts for apocalyptic violence and bloodshed. This […]
Revenge can have a long shelf life, and often leads to all sorts of unintended consequences. This twisty and often disturbing tale is full of surprises, revealed in the successive confessions of the protagonists involved in the murder of a middle school teacher’s four-year-old daughter. Minato starts slowly and then gradually intensifies the suspense. She’s […]
A powerful and sometimes very funny rethinking of the Minotaur story in verse. Poseidon narrates: Waddup, bitches? Am I right or am I right? That bum Minos deserved what he got. I mean, I may be a god, but I’m not Unreasonable, and when I am, so What? But Minos, his wife Pasiphae, his engineer […]
