Stokes reimagines the murder of Matthew Shepard in this speculative historical novel, an auspicious debut. In 1990s Wyoming, 17-year-old Ash is instantly infatuated with 19-year-old Shane, who Ash ...

Ryan Seacrest and Meredith Seacrest Leach, illus. by Bonnie Lui. Simon & Schuster, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-66594-987-3 Sibling creators Seacrest and Seacrest Leach spotlight daydreaming in this ...

Two-year-old Chooch seeks to help everyone, often with disastrous results, in this tender familial picture book from Cherokee creators Rogers and Kunz. The child’s older Continue reading » When ...

Elizabeth Agyemang. Delacorte, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-48449-4; $12.99 paper ISBN 978-0-593-48452-4 Three teens band together to exonerate themselves after learning they simultaneously dated ...

In this intergenerational telling, Hopi woodcarver Honyouti relays some of his grandfather’s childhood experiences at a residential boarding school. Beginning with a portrait of the narrator in ...

Inês Viegas Oliveira, trans. from the Portuguese by Rosa Churcher Clarke. Triangle Square, $18.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-64421-402-2 Against a shadowy, loosely painted landscape, two figures in top ...

In 1765, 16-year-olds Joséphine and Clara eke out a subsistence lifestyle herding sheep in the village of Mende in the Gévaudan region of France. Amid daily harsh realities of disease ...

Standing with Grandma at the kitchen counter (with “a little boost” from a step stool), a redheaded child in orange coveralls is poised to help with making challah. Persuading the elder that ...

Mountford (The Circles in the Sky) contemplates two serious, related skills in this compassionate book of counsel: recognizing one’s distress, and talking about it with another. Starring a cast ...

Kabir and Surishtha Sehgal, illus. by Jing Jing Tsong. Beach Lane, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-6659-3400-8 A bustling outdoor market is the setting of this captivating concept picture book from mother ...

Actor and producer Aniston bases her picture book debut on her real-life rescue sheepdog, a social media favorite. Little Clydeo, with fluffy white fur and brown ears, yearns for a “special ...

In this bustling domestic work celebrating a ritual rooted in maternal appreciation, a girl of Korean heritage—excited to eat a special soup on her special day—learns about the food’s deeper ...