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PILIPINTOThe author was born in the Amazon in 1955 to American evangelical missionary parents Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, whose lives she detailed in her...
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DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGONFollowing his first two books on significant Chinese American figures, Charlie Chan and Inseparable , Huang turns his attention to Anna May...
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DARK DAYSIn his nonfiction debut, Reeves, the Whiting Award–winning author of the poetry collections King Me and Best Barbarian , rigorously analyzes...
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SUBLUNARThe son of a Danish nobleman, Brahe gained royal funding to build an observatory on an island then known as Hven, where he also pursued...
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FAMILY LOREAcevedo’s widely anticipated new novel, her first for adults, begins with an oblique bit of magic: Flor, who for her whole life has been able to...
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LOST BELIEVERSThe Kol family has lived alone in southern Siberia for decades. They belong to an ultratraditional sect of Christianity known as the Old...
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JUSTICE KETANJIAs befitting a tribute to a potential role model who has only recently become a national figure (though Ketanji Brown Jackson’s legal career...
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SWIMMING IN A SEA OF STARSIn a diary her therapist suggested she keep, 17-year-old Addison begins the rotation of the narrative in first-person epistolary format,...
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DEALBREAKERSMarina Spicer is behind schedule. All she wants is a safe, predictable relationship with the kind of man who wants to have kids, get a dog, and...
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LAST SUMMER IN OUTER SPACEIt seems that the seven civilizations, including ours, have been suddenly emptied of their sentient races by the ruthless Elvidian dictator...
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A BOOK ABOUT BUPKESBupkes is a Yiddish word defined on the first pages of this book as “nothing,” “zero,” and “zilch.” Accompanying artwork drives home the point...
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BENITO JUÁREZ FIGHTS FOR JUSTICEWriting in first person, Hernandez traces the course of young Benito from village sheepherder to trained lawyer, from exile to repeatedly...
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FIONA BUILDS A FAIRY HOUSEAlthough Fiona has been fascinated by winged horses, gnomes, unicorns, mermaids, and ogres, now she loves fairies. They’re all she can talk...
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MY NAMETheir “wrinkled foreheads” and the giggles that follow make the young boy shrink into himself. He worries that his name conjures “far-off...
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DREAM BY DREAMIsaac Mayer Wise, born in Bohemia in 1819, loved studying and began rabbinical training at age 16. At university he learned different languages...
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THE LITTLE GREEN ENVELOPEOlive Zhi, a pale girl with dot eyes and black hair tied into two blunt pigtails, is not her cheery self when she visits Grandpa (also pale with...
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CRISISEven before Covid-19, concern about teens’ mental health was building, as various negative indicators rose. Since then, adverse data points have...
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STUFF KIDS SHOULD KNOWPredicated on the stated notion that “there’s something interesting about everything” and the unstated contradictory one that certain topics are...
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FATAL DOSESIn five chapters plus a short introduction, readers learn about the scope of the addiction crisis that the influx of synthetic opioids has...
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BALLER INAThe light brown–skinned girl on the cover, her hair in two Bantu knots, pairs her ballet tights and tutu with basketball shorts and sneakers....
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AN OTHERWISE PERFECT PLANAll Gwen Pendergrass knows about her father is that her mother, Karen, met him in Las Vegas. The only pictures Gwen has of him are on a strip...
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RUNNING OUT OF TIMEThe authors begin their nonfiction debut starkly: “The Earth is on fire.” Wildfires, they report, raged on every continent in 2020 and destroyed...
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DOWN BELOW BEYONDSpace travel in the wild, wild future is conducted via the “Voyalten Web,” faster-than-light spaceship portals used by numerous civilized worlds...
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DEAR ELSAWhen Leo, a Toronto boy in grade 5, is randomly assigned by his teacher to correspond with Elsa, a Boston fifth grader, he’s annoyed. Not only...
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WE'VE GOT YOU COVEREDEinav and Finkelstein, professors of economics at Stanford and MIT, respectively, manage the impressive feat of appearing neither liberal nor...
