When Addie Ramírez's stepfather offers to adopt her, she starts looking for the biodad she never knew. What she finds is an extended family of luchadores, and a new connection to her passion for wrestling.
Sarah
A queer, artistic, disco-flavored retelling of Anne of Green Gables. That's it. That's the pitch.
Sarah
When Ginny starts fixating on the hazards of climate change, her parents send her off to wilderness camp for a month. Ginny thinks someone's made a mistake, especially when it appears every other camper is a boy delinquent, but she finds out she has plenty to learn about the environment and about people.
An astrophysicist-folklorist tells the story of our galaxy -- narrated by the Milky Way itself.
Genre: Quirky Brits being quirky. Subgenre: Reclusive elderly man reluctantly reconnects with the world. Emotional state: Endearing but not sappy.
A queer middle school historical reenactor brings Civil War history into the present.
Sarah
Lisa Gardner writes fantastic Boston-based mysteries. Her latest series features Frankie Elkins, a recovering alcoholic with a talent for finding missing people, who takes on cases whether the police want her help or not.
Sarah
This was a solid, utterly enjoyable thriller -- there's no doubt about who's going to win in the end, because genre conventions, but that doesn't make it any less of a page-turner!
Sarah
Gideon's noir-inspired detective career ended ignominiously in middle school, but now his investigative skills -- and the lure of the editor-in-chief -- have found him a new home on the high school newspaper.
Sarah
Mexico's 1910 revolution involved -- among other conspirators -- a group of dissident journalists who launched attacks from the US while also fighting US imperialism in Mexico.
Sarah
