A revealing one-sided correspondence is at the heart of Dear Hank Williams by Kimberly Willis Holt
…in eleven-year-old Tate P. Ellerbee. Tate, who follows a long line of feisty Southern-girl heroines from Scout Finch through India Opal Buloni and Dovey Coe, lives in fictional Rippling Creek,…
In this debut novel, a boy braves bullies and worse to try to save his family home
…math prodigy—he uses those other languages to try to understand the things he experiences—and so he narrates the book with a fusion of English, music notations, and math symbols. (That’s…
In her debut novel, Memphis native Moriah McStay explores the way our experiences shape us
…literature, from Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to It’s a Wonderful Life to the current Broadway hit If/Then. In her novel, McStay explores both lives of her main character: the life…
In her new YA novel, I Was Here, Gayle Forman explores the questions surrounding a teen suicide
…Cody’s—and the reader’s—questions. What Cody finds sickens her: Meg’s correspondence with a “suicide support group” called Final Solution, which encourages people who feel suicidal to take their own lives. Members…
Sharon M. Draper crafts a tale of community, family, and courage in the Jim Crow South
…of men dressed in white robes and pointed hoods burn a cross. Stella knows exactly what she’s seeing: after several years of inactivity, the local chapter of the Ku Klux…
Katherine Paterson’s warm, humorous memoir sheds light on a beloved author
…master’s degree in education, China was still closed to missionaries, so Paterson took a post in Japan instead. Later, while her four children were young, she began a writing career…
