Author name: Julie Levy

by Laura Nowlin ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 6, 2024 A heavy read about the harsh realities of tragedy and their effects on those left behind. In this companion novel to 2013’s If He Had Been With Me, three characters tell their sides of the story. Finn’s narrative starts three days before his death. He explores […]

by Tish Rabe ; illustrated by Laura Hughes ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 21, 2016 While this is a fairly bland treatment compared to Deborah Lee Rose and Carey Armstrong-Ellis’ The Twelve Days of… Rabe follows a young girl through her first 12 days of kindergarten in this book based on the familiar Christmas carol. The

Lionel, a Black 16-year-old, has always admired his grandpa’s drive, athleticism, and ambition—and he’s acutely aware that, by comparison, he and his dad don’t “measure up.” When a fire breaks out while he’s at a local pet store, Lionel finally has the chance to be seen as a hero. Leaked video footage seems to show

by Christina Perri ; illustrated by Joy Hwang Ruiz ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2025 A sweet notion that falls flat. A hit song reimagined as a book about parental love. Featured in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 1, Perri’s “A Thousand Years” deals with the speaker’s fear of romantic love. In picture-book form, it

by Kristin Hannah ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 3, 2015 Still, a respectful and absorbing page-turner. Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a

From the Horrible Harry series , Vol. 37 by Suzy Kline ; illustrated by Amy Wummer ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 27, 2018 A fitting farewell, still funny, acute, and positive in its view of human nature even in its 37th episode. A long-running series reaches its closing chapters. Having, as Kline notes in her warm

by Kristin Hannah ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 3, 2015 Still, a respectful and absorbing page-turner. Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a

Hannah dreams of becoming a professional pianist and expects nothing less than perfection from herself. As she plays, a series of personified notes emerge, holding hands as they march and keeping “perfect pitch and a steady tempo,” even as Hannah’s more free-wheeling little sister, Jenny, romps among them. As Hannah practices for a performance of

by Kristin Hannah ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 3, 2015 Still, a respectful and absorbing page-turner. Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a

by Susanna Leonard Hill ; illustrated by Laura Bobbiesi ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 7, 2020 This multigenerational snuggle will encourage the sharing of old memories and the creation of new ones. Hill and Bobbiesi send a humungous hug from grandmothers to their granddaughters everywhere. Delicate cartoon art adds details to the rhyming text showing multigenerational