An unlikely trio of friends in Kate DiCamillo’s Raymie Nightingale search for trust and healing
…Florida Central Tire contest, and when her father sees the news stories about her triumph, he will leave the dental hygienist he has run off with and come back to…
In Brooks Benjamin’s debut children’s novel, a seventh-grader faces some hard choices as he tries to figure out friendship, loyalty, and what it means to be true to yourself
…flash of white underwear can make a twelve-year-old believe his life is over, the power of first crushes, how tough the social scene can be. His depictions of middle-school—the jockeying…
Chris Grabenstein’s eccentric librarian, Mr. Lemoncello, returns to test rival teams of young bibliophiles
…disappointed. This novel for middle-grade readers is a sequel to his bestselling Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, but it easily stands alone. Readers unfamiliar with the first book might be…
Leslie Lytle’s first novel chronicles a Tennessee woman’s fight against factory farming
…In Chicken Stock readers will find a compelling and sympathetic hero, a strong argument for sustainable, natural farming, and a Tennessee novelist worth watching. Michael Ray Taylor teaches journalism at…
In Ronald Kidd’s new middle-grade novel, a girl comes of age in the civil-rights era
…mother has an outside job—unusual for a middle-class family in this era. When Billie’s father gives her a vacuum cleaner for Mother’s Day, Billie’s mother can’t hide her hurt, perhaps…
Kathryn Holmes’s Hallelujah Calhoun must fight her way out of the woods—and the darkness in her past
…“Hallelujah.” So why doesn’t she tell everyone that Luke is lying from the beginning? It’s unaccountable, that is, until the relative roles of mal*]}*es and femal*]}*es in Hallie’s world become…
