The sharp-witted reflections, amusing absurdities, and humor found in the conflicting relationships between art and artist are at the forefront of Adrian Tomine's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist and Lisa Hanawalt's I Want You. A master humorist, Hanawalt strikes the perfect balance between drawing the gorgeous and the repugnant, the fantastical and the […]
Grades 9 – 12 In Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo, 16-year-old Camino Rios lives for the summer – especially the first week of June – when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to […]
Grades 3 – 7 Introduced and moderated by Jessie Rebhan, Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher. In One True King, the sixth and final installment in Soman Chainani’s epic fairy tale series The School for Good and Evil, Camelot’s crown – and the fate of the Endless Woods – are up for grabs. In Tony DiTerlizzi's […]
Grades PreK – 2 Here's a totally twisted take on the alphabet that invites readers to look at it in a whole new way: An A is an H that just won't stand up right, a B is a D with its belt on too tight, and a Z is an L in a tug-of-war […]
Carolyn Forché’s first new collection in 17 years, In the Lateness of the World: Poems is a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death. The poems call to the reader from the end of the world where they are sifting through […]