Wonder World Book Cafe'

1948. Historical fiction. Twelve-year old Amil and his family are settling into their new and hopefully safer home in Bombay, India after fleeing their homeland, just after India's Partition. Riots continue. Gandhi is assassinated. Amil is dealing with quite a lot on top of everything else. His relationship with his papa is strained, school is difficult, and he'd love to have a friend. Come along on Amil's journey in this companion story to The Night Diary.

Transcript here

It seems 13 year-old Ruby has lost or is losing everything she has loved: her Ye-Ye, the beloved neighborhood bakery, her friends, and now her summer freedom. Set in San Francisco's Chinatown, Ruby is navigating a whole lot of change in her young life. Multigenerational love wrapped around these pages.

(Transcript unavailable)

1989 Dan’s first year of high school is a few short months away, and he’s about to embark on the biggest “out of his comfort zone” experience of his life, a 3 week study abroad program in Europe. Mix tapes, Kodak cameras, first love...come along with Dan Santat in his graphic novel memoir. This is one for all-ages.

Transcript here

YA memoir written in verse. Raw. Honest. Real. A gift to readers.

Jiordan is looking toward her first high school year, while trying to understand the crime her dad committed: googling money-laundering, defraud, schemed, and "how to survive prison."

Transcript here

Tempers flare. Social media posts fly. Friendships severed. Cleverly crafted, Mascot follows a group of six diverse students through their 8th grade year in a town near Washington D.C. as they along with their community hotly debate a controversial, long-standing tradition.

Transcript here

What can ten-year old Amelia, her twenty-one year old chinchilla, Calvin, and a sugar apple tree possibly have in common? Turns out, quite a bit. Join Amelia as she navigates her life: desperate to find Calvin and deal with a friend who’s turned her world topsy-turvy. 

Transcript here

What can 12 year-old Josh do after his middle school is stained with freshly painted swastikas and antisemitic messages especially given that he doesn't want to reveal his Jewish identify? The Do More Club is fast-paced, written in verse with not only hate, but courage and kindness.

Transcript here

Step into the life of twelve-year old Tuesday Beals whose story is nearly a love letter to Zion National Park, located in Utah, and her beloved sky.

Transcript here

Featuring two graphic fictionalized memoirs. Huda, a freshman and new to her high school, is a riot. She will have you laughing out loud while tugging at your heart as she grows up and navigates her place in the world, defining herself as a Muslim Arab American.

Transcript here

2020: A Zelda loving 13 year old boy and his 100 year old great grandmother living in New Jersey during the pandemic

1930’s: A deadly famine in Ukraine, a privileged Communist girl living in Kyiv, and a girl from Brooklyn, New York

Masterfully written, these intertwining stories all come together. 

Based on a true historical event and the author’s own family. 

Transcript here