Their Great Gift by John CoyCourage, Sacrifice, and Hope in A New LandPhotographs by Wing Young Huie Lyrical language and breathtaking photography celebrate the immigrant experience, and the strength and beauty it represents for us as a nation. Check it out!
The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs The experts at America’s Test Kitchen furnish more than 100 recipes for young chefs to practice and perfect, because kids belong in the kitchen. Check it out!
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesWith searing frankness, Coates lays bare his experience as a black man in America through an open letter to his son, challenging readers to confront slavery’s legacy in present day. Check it out!
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alamaddine As a translator, books have been Aaliya’s life. Now elderly, having lived through the Lebanese Civil War, she is left pondering her life’s meaning as she tentatively reaches out for companionship. Check it out!
The Old Man by Sarah V., Illustrated by Claude K. Dubois A little girl encounters a man living on the street and offers him a gift of love and hope. Check it out!
Tough Guys (Have Feelings Too) by Keith Negley A series of archetypal tough guys–knights, ninjas, wrestlers, and robots–own their feelings and proclaim the power to show and share them. Check it out!
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin As children, four siblings learn the exact date of their deaths. While that knowledge binds them to one another, it also shapes each of their lives in dramatically different ways. Check it out!
What Can a Citizen Do by Dave Eggers, Illustrated by Shawn Harris A diverse cast of kids sets out to build a towering machine of social concord and in the process exults the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Check it out!
Stardust by Neil Gaiman This fairy-tinged tale illustrates the power of love, as besotted Trystran Thorne ventures outside his village into an otherworldly realm to retrieve a fallen star – and finds more than he expected. Check it out!
Pachinko by Min Jun Lee When you live in exile, is anywhere truly home? This sprawling story of identity and loss follows one Korean family from teenage indiscretion to a hard-won life of possibility in Japan. Check it out!