Angela Leeper
Content by Angela Leeper
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After illustrating the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series and working as an animation artist for the film Coraline, Jon Klassen makes his author debut in the sly picture book
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Because the 11-year-old stuttering narrator of Vince Vawter’s debut novel, Paperboy, finds it too difficult to speak, he tells his story by pounding away at the keys of his f
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While his parents and older sister are being murdered by a sinister man called Jack, a toddler boy creeps out of his English home and ends up in the nearby cemetery.
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In Erin Bow’s first novel, Plain Kate, an enthralling fantasy set in a time and place much like medieval Europe, it’s the skara rok, or hungry time, and the folk of Sam
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Patricia MacLachlan, Newbery Medalist for Sarah, Plain and Tall, delivers another heartfelt story of family and home in Waiting for the Magic.
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Known for historical and realistic fiction, Newbery Honor author Gennifer Choldenko turns to fantasy in No Passengers Beyond This Point, a wonderfully imaginative adventure story.
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There are some kinds of trouble you never see coming, begins Elise Broach's Desert Crossing, a young adult thriller and departure from her previous tween mystery and picture books.
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Cynthia Kadohata follows her recent Newbery Medal winner Kira-Kira with another powerful portrayal of the human spirit in Weedflower.
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Whether he’s humorously reminding readers of the power of the printed word in It’s a Book or taking a nonconformist look at the founding fathers in
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Pale-skinned visitors enter your African village. Although they make you anxious, you help welcome them with a feast.
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It's 1872 in New York City, and 14-year-old Horace Carpentine is working as an apprentice for society photographer Enoch Middleditch in his Greenwich Village studio.
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Do children really need another story about Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan?
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Move over, Madeline—there’s a new Parisian picture-book character to adore in Matthew Olshan’s unusual story, The Mighty Lalouche.
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A snowy day in February and a young visitor named Karl remind nursing home resident Lizzie (once known as Elizabeth) of another snowy day in February 1945, when an elephant came to live in the gard
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Until his untimely death at age 45 from a pulmonary embolism in December of 2006, Richard Carlson lived his life according to the motivational yet down-to-earth wisdom he penned in the best-selling <
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Having tackled amnesia and the afterlife in previous novels, Gabrielle Zevin turns to the future in All These Things I’ve Done.
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“I don’t want ends.
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In a tucked-away corner of the world, in a land full of sun, on an almost forgotten plot of earth, sat Rosa Farm.
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Elliot is a quiet, reserved boy who likes to dress in tuxedos while his equally quirky father always sports chartreuse green plaid suits.
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With their distinct patched eyes and adorable, roly-poly bodies, it’s no wonder that pandas cause a frenzy at any zoo lucky enough to house them.
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"I don’t mean to be weird P but in your letter you said how you wanted the truth about stuff even if it’s ugly and trust me it’s going to get a little ugly,” writes Jam
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After hiding in the bathroom to escape reading aloud in elementary school, dropping out of sixth grade for a while because of severe dyslexia and ADHD, and harboring a plan for suicide by the age of
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How far would you go to get into a prestigious university? Author Eireann Corrigan considers the possibilities in the nail-biting thriller Accomplice.
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Inspired by the real-life stories of Nat "Deadwood Dick" Love, a famous black cowboy and former slave who penned his own adventures in 1907, Helen Hemphill's latest novel features a y
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In the tradition of Ellen Hopkins and Patricia McCormick, Kimberly Marcus uses free verse to tell the realistic story of one teen’s plight in her debut novel, Exposed.
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In the town of Tupelo Landing (pop. 148) on the eastern shore of North Carolina, most residents have small wallets but big hearts—and even bigger mysteries.
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<b>A spunky heroine's survival story</b> Not many children can boast about an uncle who wrestles alligators or jumps from planes, so when Roxie Warbler's Uncle Dangerfoot, the travelin
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Child prodigy Ronald Earl Pettway has always accepted his gift of healing, which has led to endless tent revivals and a sheltered life on the road with elderly, scripture-spouting evangelists Sugar
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Seventeen-year-old David Ellison and his fellow Oak Fields Prep classmates are expected to apply to nearby Stanford and the Ivies.
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Set in rural Georgia in a time before television, Barbara O’Connor’s The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester is a kid-centered story of summertime fun.
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Ten-year-old Ellie Stewart knows she’s in for a hard time when she’s forced to spend the summer of 1954 with her taciturn Grandma Acklebee, whom she’s never known, in her home on
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With the abundance of sibling rivalry books available, the Annie and Simon books by British author Catharine O’Neill offer a refreshing reminder that there are positive sibling relat
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When there’s no end in sight to the nightly rain of Nazi bombs over London, 12-year-old Beatrice Sims is sent to live in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with public health nurse Clementine Pope.
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After years of patiently being ridden by countless children at fairs, Speed the horse no longer lives up to his name.
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Is it destiny when 12-year-old Ruby is named the Bunning Day Essay Girl and chosen to deliver a rousing speech at her New Hampshire hometown parade?
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In the near-distant future, a catastrophic, Earth-changing event called the Darkness has left the planet without trees.
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In Angus and Sadie, Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt introduced two border collie siblings, adopted by Mister and Missus, a young Maine couple who own a farm.
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What parent hasn’t had a child beg for a pet, with heartfelt promises to feed it, walk it and even clean up after it?
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When 14-year-old Nawra, living in an Internally Displaced People Camp in Darfur, receives a small sum of money from an unknown donor, she assumes a rich widow with many sheep must have bestowed her
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In 1932, the same year Lizzie Hawkins turns 12, the Great Depression has hunkered down in Bittersweet, Alabama.
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<b>An unusual boy's magical quest</b> Move over, Pinocchio, and make room for Barkbelly, a wooden boy who comes to life in a charming debut novel by Cat Weatherill, a storyteller from
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Who wouldn’t be afraid of the dark, the mysterious thing that sometimes hides in the closet, sits behind the shower curtain and lives in the basement? Little Laszlo certainly is.
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Winner of the 2012 Newbery MedalSmall-town life has never been funnier than in Jack Gantos’ Dead End in Norvelt. The 11-year-old main character, who suffers from profuse nosebleeds, also happens to be named Jack Gantos. Jack is enduring the summer in his hometown of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, a model community created during the Great Depression and renamed to honor Eleanor Roosevelt. While not strictly autobiographical, the story’s gothic humor is classic Gantos.
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Next-door neighbors Anna and Frankie have felt like sisters all their lives.
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<p><b>Boomers aren't finished yet</b> To AARP CEO Bill Novelli, the plus sign in his new book, 50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America, represents not only the
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Sixteen-year-old Naomi Porter could tell you all about how she was found in an empty typewriter case in a Russian church, but I hate orphan stories, she declares in Memoirs of a Teenage Amne
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In this bittersweet story based on actual events, Mexican-American Sylvia Mendez and Japanese-American Aki Munemitsu share a bedroom in Orange County, California, from 1942 to 1945. Well, sort of.
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and What kind of job do I want? are perhaps some of the toughest decisions high school and college students will face.
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With the ease of buying milk at the grocery store today, many children now know very little about where milk comes from.
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The summer of 1964 is in full force in Falls of Rough, Kentucky.
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In The Village Garage, author/illustrator G. Brian Karas depicts an often overlooked but integral part of every community.
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Was it a deer in the road, or a dog or the setting sun?
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Alyssa Gardner can hear the voices of insects and plants.
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Bronwen Oliver is certain she was switched at birth. What else could explain her aversion to ketchup when the rest of her family slathers the condiment on almost anything edible?
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Day is wanted for assault, arson, theft, destruction of military property and hindering the war effort against the Colonies. The real problem is that no one in the dystopian Republic of America even knows what the 15-year-old looks like.
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In Forge, the highly anticipated sequel to National Book Award finalist Chains, runaway slave C
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Author Jane Yolen and illustrator David Small have teamed up for the first time to create Elsie’s Bird, a captivating new picture book that recalls the wonder of Little House on the
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Squares, circles and triangles, sure. But who knew there were so many spirals around us?
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Books about genocide usually prompt images of the Holocaust, but in Never Fall Down, National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick highlights another equally horrific but lesser-
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Margaret McMullan returns to Mississippi and its history in the gripping Sources of Light.
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Valedictorian status or high test scores no longer open doors to the country’s top universities.
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History and art criticism, with a dash of memoir thrown in, Robert Clark's Dark Water chronicles how the flood of November 4, 1966 - in which four million books, 14,000 works of art and 16
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Getting good grades, playing sports and participating in school clubs are all part of the high school experience.
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One of the top mysteries of the year in the middle-grade category is The London Eye Mystery, which takes readers on a page-turning spin.
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While most advice books for graduates steer them toward what they should be doing to achieve a successful job, the inspirational Follow Your Dreams: Wisdom &andamp; Inspiration for Graduates e
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It's the second week of July, and there's something much worse than a fuel shortage going on. (“Short-age would mean there wasn’t enough.
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In Francisco X.
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Skillful storytelling, incisive characters and thought-provoking themes are at the heart of two-time Newbery Medalist E.L.
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Georgie Burkhardt knows that the unidentifiable body buried in the family plot is not that of her older sister, Agatha, who recently ran away.
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In the latest picture book by Japanese author-illustrator Komako Sakai, a young rabbit and his mother share an all-too-common experience.
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Illustrator Sophie Blackall, whose many books include Ruby's Wish (for which she won the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award),
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<b>Hurrah, school's over! Now what?</b> Who better to dish out advice on the social etiquette of young adults than Lizzie Post, the great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post?
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Everyone knows the tale about the boy named Jack, who climbed up the beanstalk and encountered giants.
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Of course you know the story of Cinderella, but you've never heard it told like first-time novelist Barbara Ensor's chatty, witty version.
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Delayed language, tantrums, arm flapping, hyperactivity, incontinence—Rupert Isaacson’s son, Rowan, possessed all the signs associated with autism.
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Abby, a big girl with an even bigger heart, is tired of the “medium girls” who are medium smart and medium attractive.
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Just as a family plants a tree in the backyard of their Brooklyn neighborhood, another family in Kenya plants a tree, a reflection of the country’s Green Belt Movement, created by environment
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Answer: A heartwarming story about a 12-year-old girl whose biggest wish is to appear on the “Jeopardy!” game show.
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Just when rising seventh-grader Charlene Charley Morgan thinks she's lost everything her nature photographer mother to a plane crash two years ago, her father to his endless work, pain-free mobilit
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After stealing a sandwich from an attendant and also beating her face in the process, 17-year-old Shavonne has earned herself more time in the juvenile correction center.
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While 17-year-old Scarlet Ellis has always been the nice one in her family, her moody, selfish older sister, Juliet, has always been quick to dump a long line of boyfriends.
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“I had everything I needed to run a household: a house, food, and a new family,” explains 11-year-old Aubrey after stocking up on SpaghettiOs and buying Sammy, a pet fish, to keep her c
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While her father lies in a coma in an assisted living facility, the result of a construction accident two years earlier, Ellis Baldwin’s late-night radio goddess mother has brought up the ult
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Like last year’s critically acclaimed Marcelo in the Real World, Francisco X.
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Because of his hulking size and antisocial behavior, Brewster Rawlins, voted “Most Likely to Receive the Death Penalty,” has been nicknamed Bruiser by his high school peers in this uniq
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You may think you know all there is to know about Peter Pan, but long before Wendy, there was Tiger Lily.
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Otter is just looking for dinner when he finds love—with a fish. Focusing on her beautiful eyes, Otter no longer sees Myrtle as a food source.
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All through eighth-grade baseball season Peter Friedman hid his mounting, searing pain so that he and his best friend, AJ, could be star pitchers.
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Robert T. Jeschonek takes metafiction to the extreme in his teen novel My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, which features no fewer than three alternate realities.
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The 100-Year-Old Secret is the first title in The Sherlock Files, a new mystery series created by Tracy Barrett.
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Newbery Medal winner Linda Sue Park starts it all with a girl named Maggie; her grief for her grandfather, world-renowned photojournalist George Gee Keane; and her inheritance, a puzzling wooden bo
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Princess Imogene Eustacia Wellington only has two weeks to finish reading The Art of Being a Princess and prepare for her 13th birthday.
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Christmas is only days away, but with her diabetic mother's death barely two months ago and her father's hunting traps continually empty, 11-year-old Dessa Dean wonders if there will be a c
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She's back! After 25 years, Natalie Babbitt, the author of the modern classic Tuck Everlasting and the Newbery Honor book Kneeknock Rise, has written another superb novel for children.
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While most kids would welcome the chance to brag about a father who’s at the president’s beck and call, ready to take on global threats at a moment’s notice, 14-year-old Billy Har
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In the 1997 Newbery Honor Book Belle Prater's Boy, young Woodrow Prater faces a crisis when his mother mysteriously disappears from their coal-mining mountain holler in Virginia.
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When a buzzard casts his shadow on Moses Thomas’ yard in Wilmington, North Carolina, his grandmother, Boo Nanny, is certain that trouble is headed their way.
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The Emerald Atlas begins on a snowy Christmas Eve, when three toddlers are taken from their parents and placed in an orphanage in Boston.
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Author Martha Freeman introduced readers to Holly in The Trouble with Cats, in which the third grader adjusts to her new stepfather and his four pesky cats.
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It’s been almost two years since Melissa’s father lost his long-fought battle to cancer.
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Don’t call 19-year-old Hannah Ward a ballerina, a term reserved for the stars of the prestigious Manhattan Ballet.
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Who's the girl wearing the green-and-yellow hat made of hemp as a protest against the working conditions in Mexico or snapping Thomas Duke's pencil after another one of his daily bra-checks
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Can a unique American strength, private-sector entrepreneurship, aid a troubled institution, the public schools? asks Steven F.
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An author of sports fiction and thrillers, Michael Northrop shows his versatility as he turns to realistic fiction in Rotten.
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National Book Award winner Polly Horvath puts a fresh twist on a typical theme—a young orphan placed with an older caregiver—in her delightful new middle grade mystery, Mr.
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In Gayle Forman’s best-selling If I Stay, Adam stood over the bed of his comatose girlfriend Mia, promising to do whatever it would take, even leaving or letting her go, if she&rsquo
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Quentin "Q" Jacobsen and his next-door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman, played together as children, but over time Margo has become an unattainable girl of allure and mystery.
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For many teens, the transition to high school may seem like a matter of survival.
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Brightly clad creatures, strange-sounding instruments, colored lights shaped like birds and flowers, and five human sisters (Tatiana, Jenica, Iulia, Paula and Stela) all play a part in the revelry th
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Summer is the perfect time for enchantment and adventure.
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After recovering a priceless painting in Chasing Vermeer, there's no rest for sixth-grade sleuths Calder and Petra when their free-thinking teacher tells their class that Frank Lloyd Wright's
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Sophomore and rising basketball star Scotty Weems is going through the motions of a typical school day when the first signs of a blizzard appear in southern New England.
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In the year 2129, the United Nations’ Permanent Peace and Prosperity governs the world and 96% of the global population allows robots to do their work and lives on the social minimum, a gover
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Born under a full moon at midwinter, 18-year-old Saba and her twin brother Lugh live in a dry and desolate wasteland left behind by the Wrecker civilization.
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After 62 years in stasis, a chemically induced hypersleep that suspends the aging process, Rosalinda Samantha Fitzroy—or simply Rose—awakens, still 16 years old, to discover not only th
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In Homeland, Cory Doctorow’s stand-alone sequel to the award-winning Little Brother
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When the first World Trade Center tower is hit on 9/11, high school senior Claire worries about her mother at work and her brother across the street in elementary school; classmate Peter, skipping
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They’re not charming or sexy.
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Every night, 13-year-old Paolo Crivelli sneaks out of his villa in Florence to ride his bicycle.
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“TWO WEEKS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE,” promises a flyer at the local grocery store.
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Fifteen-year-old Samara is fed up with a summer when everything is broken—the air-conditioner, the ceiling fan, the icemaker, even her family.
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In her evocative new book, Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World, Sharon Waxman travels to Egypt, Turkey, Greece and Italy to investigate the persistent tribulation
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Samhain Corvus Lacroix, a self-proclaimed “dropout loser” and fry cook at the local Plumpy’s fast food outlet in Seattle, has always felt directionless and lost among his peers.
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Landing that first job can seem as intangible as a medieval knight's quest, especially when 85 percent of entry-level job candidates are poorly prepared for the job search process.
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Camping out with his mother over Labor Day weekend in Maine’s Acadia National Park is supposed to be the best three days of 11-year-old Jack Martel’s summer vacation.
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James can’t wait to leave his old life behind him and make a new start as a freshman at State University.
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2007 Caldecott Medal Winner
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Arriving at the doors of a new high school one day is Shayne Blank, perched on a battered BMW motorcycle and dressed all in black.
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Not old enough to work at the Clucket Bucket or Dairy Whip and with no plans for sports or camp, the 12-year-old hero of Gary Paulsen's hilarious novel, Lawn Boy, simply wants to earn a li
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Every day at 4:33 a.m., high school junior London Lane’s mind resets and her memory is wiped clean for no apparent reason.
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The creators of The Other Side and the Caldecott Honor-winning Coming on Home Soon team up again in another beautifully illustrated picture book that touches hearts and minds.
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It’s rare for a children’s book to both shock and inspire, but Jacqueline Briggs Martin, author of the Caldecott Medal winner Snowflake Bentley, achieves both in her latest undertaking,
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It's 1944 and everyone is doing their part for the war effort.
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In Clair-de-Lune, author Cassandra Golds crafts a fairy-tale world with a city much like Paris, in which a young girl inhabits an odd but enchanting building, full of artistes.
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While the hen, horse, goose, dog and other animals on the farm are quick to cluck, neigh, hiss and woof, the ladybug never says a word as she silently goes about her business.
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“When your heart is ready to break, that’s the perfect time to bake,” is one of Foster McFee’s many tips for cooking—and living.
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Whoever coined the term “deceptively simple” obviously had something like Frank Viva’s debut picture book, Along a Long Road, in mind.
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Fans of the resilient and spirited young heroine in Katherine Hannigan’s 2004 debut Ida B will welcome the equally irrepressible and unforgettable Delaware “Delly” Pattis
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“The pup with the pencil, the mutt with the marker, the dog with the drawing pad, the chap with the chalk.” Charlie Muttnik is a persistent pooch who has gotta draw.
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In a departure from her Victorian-era trilogy for teens, Libba Bray dishes out a multi-layered dark comedy in her latest book, Going Bovine.
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Prolific fantasy writer Sharon Shinn spins another imaginative tale with gentle romance in Gateway.
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If only fourth-grader Anna Wang could read My Side of the Mountain, A Wrinkle in Time and her other beloved books all day long instead of worrying about making friends.
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Most of us rarely take time to notice the twinkling lights that adorn the sky on clear evenings, but Mary Lyn Ray’s Stars reminds us of the wonder that surrounds us—nig
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Blending the tongue-in-cheek humor of her popular Scaredy Squirrel series with a clever direct appeal to the reader, Canadian author-illustrator Mélanie Watt introduces an oddly appealing new anima
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On the heels of the best-selling The Dangerous Book for Boys comes a version for the opposite sex, The Daring Book for Girls.
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While her Jewish "aunts" played mah-jongg in their Queens kitchen, young Martha Frankel preferred the "uncles" poker games in the living room every Friday night.
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For young people who find academia, the perfect job and social status elusive, there's Faking It: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself from CollegeHumor.com
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Time Between Us, Tamara Ireland Stone’s thrilling debut novel, features a determined 16-year-old Anna Greene, who rarely leaves her Chicago suburb.
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