BookPage

4 days ago | bookpage.com | Tami Orendain

Hyo Hakai and her brother, Mansaku, are newcomers to Onogoro, an isolated island where gods live among humans. As a hellmaker—someone commissioned to create personalized hells for customers’s foes—Hyo is drawn into the mysteries of Onogoro, especially when she and Mansaku discover that their friend and host, Makuni Junichiro (Jun), is missing.

1 week ago | bookpage.com | Yi Jiang

Ossie Brown is ranked the third-best high school basketball player in the country and seems set to follow in the legendary footsteps of his late father, until a devastating knee injury ends his promising career. Six months later, Ossie starts his senior year without basketball or his ex-girlfriend, Laura—who ditched Ossie when he lost his star status—to get him through the alienating experience of being Black and working class amid the predominantly white, wealthy student body at Braxton Academy.

2 weeks ago | bookpage.com | Mariel Fechik

To hear young adult novelist K. Ancrum speak about her work is like stumbling upon a rare illuminated manuscript. The text itself stands alone as a beautiful and precious thing—but its marginalia reveal secret paths to new lenses through which to view the world. It’s like swimming after Ariel into her grotto of treasures, spinning in wonder as the shelves of fascinating whosits and whatsits extend beyond your line of sight.

2 weeks ago | bookpage.com | Erica Ciccarone

“Sad Boy appeared each night like the moon, rising large and white over our roof.” Beside him sat Lola, his wife, who acted as his protector and companion. Sad Boy and Lola were two of the 30 cats Courtney Gustafson was surprised to find in her yard when she moved into a rental house in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tuscon, Arizona. Gustafson’s puzzlement quickly turned to a desire to help. The cats were starving, many of them sick.

3 weeks ago | bookpage.com | Mariel Fechik

To hear young adult novelist K. Ancrum speak about her work is like stumbling upon a rare illuminated manuscript. The text itself stands alone as a beautiful and precious thing—but its marginalia reveal secret paths to new lenses through which to view the world. It’s like swimming after Ariel into her grotto of treasures, spinning in wonder as the shelves of fascinating whosits and whatsits extend beyond your line of sight.