This month, we meet the world’s first time traveller, who drops intriguing clues about the future that make us want to steal the code book he carries. We also plumb the terrifying depths of an old country house used as a recording studio by an alt rock band, and ride across the American southwest with a posse of queer outlaw librarians.
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This month, we time travel to ancient Rome, guided by Leonardo Da Vinci’s cat, and we are schooled on the inner workings of male entitlement/ toxic masculinity when a teenage boy gets checked by the women—and men—in his life.
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This month, we travel back to an abandoned farmhouse to re-imagine the lives of 12 kids who lived there, solve a mystery involving MMIW and the repatriation of indigenous ancestors, take a school trip to Paris and get enmeshed in a family curse.
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This month, we spend a hot summer’s day transforming into animals, go for a long, steamy soak at a Japanese bath house, travel through time in a remarkable way, see how internalized racism can turn people into their own worst enemies at exactly the time they need to be their own best friends, and take to the Maine woods to search for a lost boy who can’t speak.
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Children’s book reviews by a children’s writer. This month, we roll our eyes at clueless Dads, stand up to a bullying troll, face down racist microagressions, learn to listen to the horses, and travel back in time through a forbidden apartment.
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