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This children’s book tells the story of the Bright Birds, a colorful group of young birds living in a town where families often lead separate lives. The narrative unfolds as Mrs. Tan devises a grand musical plan that brings the young birds together, illustrating how music can bridge divides and foster community connections. This beautifully […]

The ninth book in the bestselling Emmie & Friends series — told from the alternating POVs of shy Emmie and class-clown Joe as they embark on a school camping trip.  Crushes. Camping. Middle School. These days, Emmie doesn’t feel so invisible. At least not around her best friends and her crush, Tyler. Joe’s jokes aren’t landing […]

America’s national parks are best known for stunning beauty and outstanding adventure ― but these natural wonders also hold some of the world’s greatest mysteries. Why did an ancestral civilization abandon their stone cities in the mountains of Colorado? Flying past Mt. Rainier, did a pilot really spot nine shiny objects that spawned the UFO […]

It’s 1989 and a historic yet largely forgotten baseball team is emerging just as a young fan’s world begins to unravel. Death of a Childhood is the memoir of one year in the life of a pre-teen: A time when oncoming puberty, family illness, a frightening new battle with anxiety disorders, an impending school switch, […]

Little Ah-Fu has a big imagination, but he can’t imagine being the Oxherd Boy … yet. When the day comes for Ah-Fu to bring the huge family ox home from the woods, he worries that he’s not big enough to do the job. Will fear and self-doubt drive Ah-Fu home empty-handed? Or can he rely on his wits and compassion to […]

As a crucial witness to the “biggest scandal” early-19th century Fairmount has seen, lives hang on the balance of Chester Carter’s true and complete testimony. Chester is an unambitious — or independent- minded — apprentice to Mr. Tate of Tate’s Banking and Loans when he witnesses a bank robbery and finds himself serving as Sheriff […]

The first biography of Robert Crumb — one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century — whose iconic, radically frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generations of readers and cartoonists, from Art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel. Crumb is often credited with single-handedly transforming the comics medium into a place […]

Lost in Words is Ann Calandro’s debut collection of short fiction with stories that glide from “brief dreamlike appreciations of friendships to longer narratives about families,” writes author Carol Sklenicka. “Her sentences are perfection, whether describing fries “crisp on the outside and meltingly soft within” or a survey designed to tell us where we can […]

Lydia Paar (MFA ’19) joined the American workforce at 14, holding nearly 30 different jobs from 25 homes across eight states into adulthood. These essays explore her attempts to evade or transform the lower-middle-class American experience across varied cityscapes, towns, and in-between places;

Sara Potter, PhD ’13, uses the idea of the muse from Greek mythology and the cyborg from posthuman theory to consider the portrayal of female characters and their bodies in Mexican art and literature from the 1920s to the present. Examining genres including science fiction, cyberpunk, and popular fiction, Potter finds that “technified muse” figures […]