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Readers be warned: like Augustus Waters before him, Adam Spencer Ross will renew your faith in real-life superheroes and... Full review >

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OUT OF DARKNESS

by Ashley Hope Pérez

A powerful, layered tale of forbidden love in times of unrelenting racism. Full review >

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WILLFUL MACHINES

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Gothic, gadget-y, gay: a socially conscious sci-fi thriller to shelve between The Terminator and Romeo and Juliet. Full review >

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THE GAME OF LOVE AND DEATH

by Martha Brockenbrough

Race, class, fate and choice—they join Love and Death to play their parts in Brockenbrough’s haunting and masterfully... Full review >

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THE TIGHTROPE WALKERS

by David Almond

The award-winning Almond poetically plumbs the depths of his 1950s and ’60s childhood to explore themes of violence, war,... Full review >

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