Is the Great American Novel about landscaping? This is a half-joke that Mike Muñoz keeps telling himself... After high school he's just kept at his job on a crew taking care of McMansions' yards until he refuses to shovel shit. Fired and having to deal with his hard-drinking mom and her casual relationships. And there's... Continue Reading →
The Book of Uriel by Elyse Hoffman
Book Blurb: In the fires of World War II, a child must save his people from darkness... Ten-year-old Uriel has always been an outcast. Born mute in a Jewish village known for its choir, he escapes into old stories of his people, stories of angels and monsters. But when the fires of the Holocaust consume... Continue Reading →
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Publisher's Blurb: In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to Odie O’Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly earn him the superintendent’s... Continue Reading →
Black Boy Joy (17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood) Edited by Kwame Mbalia
So many of my favorite YA authors have come together to create a collection about JOY! The joy of play, of love, of achieving a goal. Bring it on Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and P. Djeli Clark, and Jerry Craft, and Tochi Onyebuchi! Told through genres that are accessible to young people: fantasy, scifi, comics, poetry,... Continue Reading →
Yours Cheerfully: A Novel (The Emmy Lake Chronicles Book 2) by AJ Pearce
Emmy is back... with a new directive: Use the magazine to encourage women to join the military effort. But her research and interviews find that these jobs in shell factories and the like are not as inviting to women as they should be. Important issues have to be addressed, yet the male managers could not... Continue Reading →