Kirkus Reviews

SOLITARY WALKER

In 1787, Mary Wollstonecraft is fired from her position as governess of three y...

THE OUTCAST

In 1963, Danny Prescott is an ordinary 16-year-old boy in Banning, Iowa, who is...

THE HEART OF HOMESTAY

The homestay program—in which students from around the world temporarily live w...

WHAT MAKES A BIRD?

Spread by spread, the young narrator considers different features: feathers, be...

THE GIRL MOST LIKELY TO

Rachel has spent the past 11 years of her life focusing solely on her work at L...

RICK KOTANI'S 400 MILLION DOLLAR SUMMER

Twelve-year-old Rick Kotani is a baseball superfan who’s shocked when his favor...

ALMOST SUNSET

Hassan is preoccupied during the first days of Ramadan—he falls asleep in class...

THEORY & PRACTICE

The narrator of de Kretser’s seventh novel arrives as a master’s degree student...

DREAM STATE

Puchner’s latest unfolds at first like a familiar (though stylish) literary rom...

THE GIRL YOU KNOW

In this gripping novel, Puerto Rican identical twins Luna and Solina Flores fac...

HALFWAY TO SOMEWHERE

Twelve-year-old Ave lives in Mexicali, Baja California, with their dad, Rodolfo...

THE FAKE MUSE

Most characters in Besora’s latest, rendered in staccato bursts of language and...

ASTRONAUT HAYLEY'S BRAVE ADVENTURE

Arceneaux was the first pediatric cancer survivor and the first with a prosthet...

SWEET BABE!

This gray-haired, bespectacled, very chic grandmother “kvells” over every wonde...

THE GREATEST RIVER

Ananda’s mother regales her with stories about how the river springs from a Him...

THE SOCIAL PARADOX

A central paradox of the modern era is that we are becoming more unhappy even t...

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