When a teen’s parents decide to take her dating life into their own hands, things get tricky in Pintip Dunn’s Dating Makes Perfect.

Words have the power to change people, says KayLynn Flanders, author of the YA novel Shielded. She knows that because words changed her.

When a teen’s parents decide to take her dating life into their own hands, things get tricky in Pintip Dunn’s Dating Makes Perfect.

A 14-year-old kid from the UK finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime in Tom Mitchell’s That Time I Got Kidnapped.

A 14-year-old kid from the UK finds himself on the adventure of a lifetime in Tom Mitchell’s That Time I Got Kidnapped.

For thousands of years, humans have been building cities. Explore six of those cities in Cities in Layers, by Philip Steele and Andrés Lozano.

A girl and her family find themselves on the wrong side of a creepy local legend in Allison Rushby’s delightful The Mulberry Tree.

Writing for young readers is a tremendous honor, says Nicole Valentine, author of the middle grade novel A Time Traveler’s Theory of Relativity.

A Korean girl and her grandmother bond over fears and love of the natural world in The Ocean Calls: A Haenyeo Mermaid Story.

Get to know the woman with big ideas in Laurie Ann Thompson’s picture book biography, Elizabeth Warren’s Big, Bold Plans.

A Korean girl and her grandmother bond over fears and love of the natural world in The Ocean Calls: A Haenyeo Mermaid Story.

The Questioneers is the brainchild of author Andrea Beaty. Her latest early chapter book is Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion.

The Sewer Rat Stink follows Geronimo Stilton and his best friend Hercule as they head into the underground sewer world to investigate a stinky smell.

The Sewer Rat Stink follows Geronimo Stilton and his best friend Hercule as they head into the underground sewer world to investigate a stinky smell.

I jumped at the chance to read/review the Lottie Perkins series written by Katrina Nannestad and illustrated by Makoto Koji.