by Amal El-Mohtar
Amal El-Mohtar (The River Has Roots) collects her acclaimed prose and poetry for the first time in Seasons of Glass and Iron, a volume packed with fantastic worlds, profound yearning, and gorgeous imagery.
The collection opens with the titular story, which won Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards in 2016 and follows two women who meet at the top of a glass mountain and find a love that will free them both. The pieces here are not organized by genre or chronology, but with an eye to variety and flow. This isn't a
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by Megan Garber
Anyone who has felt a twinge of regret when their smartphone reminds them how much time they've spent looking at a screen the previous week will appreciate Screen People, Megan Garber's well-informed account of how electronic devices have come to dominate modern lives.
Garber, a staff writer for the Atlantic, acknowledges at the outset her considerable debt to '60s media theorist Marshall McLuhan and his aphorism "the medium is the message," and to scholar and cultural critic Neil Postman and his 1985 book,
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by Sandrine Collette, trans. by Alison Anderson
Madelaine arrives as a child, starving and alone, to steal eggs from the villagers of Les Montées. Instead of casting her out, they adopt her as one of their own, swayed by her fiery spirit and beauty. Madelaine Before the Dawn, winner of the 2024 Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, is an incandescent novel of rebellion written in poetic prose by Sandrine Collette and translated from the French by Alison Anderson.
Collette vividly renders life in the village, where rain at the wrong moment means wrecked
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by Dan Santat
National Book Award-winner Dan Santat (A First Time for Everything) reels in readers with this hilarious, literal fish-out-of-water middle-grade graphic novel about a rambunctious fishboy attempting to keep his identity a secret while attending human school.
On a dark and stormy Tuesday night in Barnacle Bay, a pirate chases a "creature" through town until it gives him the slip. The next morning, a new student notice is handed to the sixth-grade teacher announcing "Sashimi" will be joining "Barnukll Bae Elmmentree"
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by Matthew Swanson, illus. by Robbi Behr
A mission to the Moon reveals unexpected lessons (and life forms) in this fast-paced, comical, and profound illustrated middle-grade novel by author/illustrator duo Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr (Cookie Chronicles series).
Twelve-year-old Leo Brightstar, his dad, and several others arrive on the moon to start the first Moon colony. Leo's father says they are "bold pioneers on a top-secret mission" but, immediately upon touchdown, he leaves on a task that specifically states, "DON'T BRING THE KID." Leo is
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