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Hello, Universe: A Newbery Award Winning Story About Bullying, Friendship, and Being Different
Greenwillow Books

Hello, Universe: A Newbery Award Winning Story About Bullying, Friendship, and Being Different

Erin Entrada Kelly, Isabel Roxas

Hello, Universe is a middle-grade novel in which one summer day links Virgil, a shy Filipino American boy, Valencia, a deaf girl who loves nature, Kaori, a self-styled psychic, and Chet, a bully. As Virgil becomes trapped in a well, the children learn to hear one another more clearly and find the courage to act beyond fear.

The Lost Daughter Collective
Dzanc Books

The Lost Daughter Collective

Lindsey Drager

An experimental novella about the loss at the center of mother-daughter relations and the fractures of a community. Fragmented viewpoints and uncertain narration probe the boundary between loss and renewal.

The Wind on the Moon
NYRB Kids

The Wind on the Moon

Eric Linklater, Nicolas Bentley

A Carnegie Medal winner, this delightful fantasy will appeal to children who love Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows. In the English village of Midmeddlecum, Major Palfrey asks his two daughters to behave themselves while he is off at war. Sighing, Dinah says, “I think that we are quite likely to be bad, however hard we try not to be,” and her sister, Dorinda, adds helpfully, “Very often, when we think we are behaving well, some grown-up person says we are really quite bad. It’s difficult to tell which is which.” Sure enough, the mischievous sisters soon convince a judge that minds must be changed as often as socks, stage an escape from the local zoo (thanks to a witch’s potion that turns them into kangaroos), and—in the company of a golden puma and silver falcon—set off to rescue their father from the tyrant of Bombardy. A tale of hilarity and great adventure, The Wind on the Moon is also a work of high seriousness; after all, “life without freedom,” as the valiant puma makes clear, “is a poor, poor thing.”

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
Harry N. Abrams

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui

This graphic memoir traces the Vietnam War and refugee migration through family memory. Prompted by childbirth, the narrator turns toward her parents’ past and renders family history, loss, and immigrant belonging with quiet force.

Exit West: A Novel
Riverhead Books

Exit West: A Novel

Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid's Exit West is an allegorical novel about fleeing a city consumed by war. Using the fantastical device of magical doors, it explores migration, refuge, and the changing shape of love and community.

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
W W Norton & Co Inc

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Dan Egan

Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is a nonfiction study of the environmental history and crisis of the Great Lakes. It follows the effects of invasive species, pollution, and development policy while asking what the waterways' future might hold.

Mother Tongue
Autumn Hill Books

Mother Tongue

Vassilis Alexakis, Harlan R. Patton

A novel by a writer divided between Greek and French that revisits the problem of language and belonging. The return to a mother tongue and the experience of migration quietly reshape the self.

Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel (English Edition)
Random House

Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel (English Edition)

George Saunders

1860年代、リンカーン大統領の幼い息子ウィリーの死をきっかけに、墓地に集う亡霊たちの断片的な語りで物語が紡がれる実験的小説。歴史的事実と虚構を重ね、喪失や共感、人間のつながりを多声的に描き出す。