Reviews written by Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer

In this sequel to The Night Diary, we get to follow the family as they settle in India after being forced to leave Pakistan. Amil, who doesn't do particularly well in school but loves to draw, doesn't keep a diary the way his twin sister Nisha does, but draws scenes...

Jody Zuber is used to moving around to be with her father, who is based in San Diego with the Marines in 1938. For Christmas, she gets a Shirley Temple doll, a Monopoly game, a Nancy Drew book... and her most desired gift, a dog. Happy is a retired Marine...

In this fictionalized graphic novel memoir, Sarah Mai looks back at the summer of her senior year, when she is preparing to go to college, and captures all of the bittersweet excitement and angst of this liminal time. Her friends all have different plans, ranging from working at a new...

Marian Wright Edelman, founder of The Children's Defense Fund, said “You can't be what you can't see.” This book helps to change that for Black girls, with its mix of collective biography and writing prompts. This is broken into three chapters, based on the...

Isa's parents ran an art gallery in Amsterdam, but now that the Nazis have taken over and her mother has died, it is all she can do to take care of her father. When a tax bill comes due on the building, she sells a forged piece of art to...

A little girl is trying to convince her parents to let her have a cat. She decides that caring for a plant successfully would help to convince them that this is a good idea. When this is successful, she learns a lot about how cats act, and addresses different types...

A variety of characters all are starting new jobs, but are unsure what they should wear to work. A chef dons a tutu, but sets fire to it in the kitchen, a gardener wears a suit and heels that don't hold up well in the mud, and a ballerina struggles...

Bear is out in the forest with his friends when he is invited to look at the eggs in a robin's next. He leaves a little gift for the baby birds soon to come. The friends continue on, and do the same for the duck's nest in the marsh. In...

Chip, who previously learned life lessons in Don't Eat Bees, returns with some epiphanies about an equally evil nemesis; CATS! None of them are to be trusted, no matter what type of cat they are. Chip does walk the reader through a number of things you can trust. Interestingly, Chip...

Lawrence is a little boy who has some anxiety about being out in the world. He stays very close to home, where he builds things and reads. Sophia is a bird who is also anxious, and doesn't want to go close to the ground because it is dangerous. She does...

In this graphic novel, we meet Tate Seong, who became enthralled with the idea of playing viola after hearing a prodigy his age, Eli Violet, backstage before a concert. Unfortunately, Eli (who uses they/them pronouns), was so anxious that they didn't go on stage, but Tate did pick up the...

Maddie is having coffee with her stressed out older sister at a local coffee shop when she spills her pumpkin spice latte all over the very cute Jacob. He's got a good sense of humor about it... and amazing blue eyes. When school starts and Maddie gets together with her...

Monica Lin (who likes to be called Mo), her mother, and younger sister CeCe have lost their home and moved in with her mother's Uncle Ray. After CeCe's father (whom Mo called S-Dad) left, Mo's mother had a hard time paying the bills, and is now looking for another job...

Rosamund wakes up to find a strange prince trying to kiss her, but manages to push him away and hide in a bathroom. The next thing she knows, she is outside the Orphan's Home Educational Academy. From fellow students Sirena and Rana, she learns that she and all of the...

Jerry and her mother have struggled ever since the death of Jerry's father, and have moved around from inexpensive motel to inexpensive motel. Apartments are difficult because Jerry is in a wheelchair due to a degenerative genetic disorder. When the two land at the Slumbering Giant Motel (the "s" is...