Your favorite drama queens of the English moors, this time with dragons. White has put together a wildly entertaining adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice," her original elements adding a fun new layer to familiar characters. This book stands on its own as an enjoyable fantasy read even for the non-Austenians out here with action, adventure, angst, and great world building.

The only person to ever return from a dark enchanted forest is forced to venture back into the monstrous, murky depths. Woven together with fairytale prose and twisting, rooting riddles is a story about grief, war, and the nature of innocence. And, at the end, a glimmer of light through the trees.

Really enjoying the direction Oseman is taking with Nick and Charlie's stories- her knack for breaking down and making manageable the big, complicated feelings and deep, important conversations cannot be overstated. Can't wait for volume 6!

"In the car park, Ged had asked me if I had thought about what would happen after this. I had and I hadn't. I'd imagined as far as Durham and Cleveland, but then there was a wall. Now I was inside the wall, and all I could do was stay in it."

Eleven-year-old Gopi relies on the game of squash--the rules, the training regimen, the observing and anticipating the next move--to navigate the slow implosion of her family, adrift and directionless in the wake of her mother's death. Squash supplies Gopi both an avenue for processing her grief and a tenuous connection with her struggling father, especially as she feels increasingly lost and alienated from her sisters. "Western Lane" is a slim but powerful novel on moving through the world when nothing seems to make sense anymore, while also a story about finding your own strength to push through the darkness.

Molly Ostertag has a way of making deep, powerful stories into something so soft and beautiful. A sweet summer coming-of-age story with enchanting artwork.