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David Wiesner
A metafictional retelling of The Three Pigs in which the characters step out of the frame and into other story worlds. The structure turns a familiar fairy tale into a playful exercise in imagination.
Linda Sue Park
A Single Shard is a novel by Linda Sue Park, set in 12th-century Korea. It won the 2003 Newbery Medal, awarded for excellence in children's literature. It also received an honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.
Henning Mankell
Sidetracked is a 2001 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.
Lawrence Durrell
A layered novel set in Avignon, revolving around love, memory, and lost relationships.
Sean O'Brien
Downriver is a poetry collection that moves through journey, landscape, and change. Its restrained voice lets image and repetition build emotional pressure.
Claudio Magris, Patrick Creagh
In Danube the author sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam. In this journey through the history and culture of the Danube lands, Claudio Magris guides the reader along the course of the river, from its source in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. In each town he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments, from Ovid and Marcus Aurelius to Kafka and Canetti. The Danube is the great artery of that elusive territory known as Mitteleuropa, from which so many of the most fascinating people and ideas of European history have emerged, and Magris has produced a wonderful celebration of it in a book that effortlessly combines erudition and writing of the highest quality.
Dana Gioia
Dana Gioia’s poetry collection explores prayer, labor, and everyday tension through a restrained yet expansive voice.
Al Young
Al Young’s poetry collection layers memory, music, and urban life into a record of thought and feeling across the 1990s.
Jan Greenberg
As a poetry collection inspired by twentieth-century American art, the poems respond to paintings, sculpture, and photographs and reopen the experience of looking at art from another angle. The book gathers acts of artistic response into a single volume.
Ellen Wittlinger
John, a boy carrying the fallout of his parents’ divorce and a deep sense of not fitting in, meets Marisol, who makes zines, and wavers between friendship and romance. The novel tracks adolescent awkwardness and delayed self-understanding through direct conversation.
Eleanor Estes, Louis Slobodkin
A story centered on Rufus, the youngest member of the Moffat family, that lightly follows family life and small-town adventures. The child's eye for mischief and invention brings everyday details vividly to life.
Elizabeth George Speare
Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred spirit. But Kit’s friendship with Hannah Tupper, believed by the colonists to be a witch, proves more taboo than she could have imagined and ultimately forces Kit to choose between her heart and her duty. Elizabeth George Speare won the 1959 Newbery Medal for this portrayal of a heroine whom readers will admire for her unwavering sense of truth as well as her infinite capacity to love.