Fresh Reads, Honest reviews, Educator-approved
Award-winning creators Minh Lê and Dan Santat deliver a sweetly funny, superhero origin story tracking a child’s warp-speed growth from infancy to graduation. Framed with vivid, comic-style illustrations that hilariously mirror parent struggles, The Blur is a fast-paced picture book.
A scorching, empowering urban fantasy! When fourteen-year-old Lolo Wright witnesses a cop pull a gun on her brother, her hidden telekinetic powers ignite. Navigating a lethal neighborhood drug dealer determined to exploit her gifts and the sudden return of her estranged mother, Lolo transforms her internal spark into an unstoppable flame for justice.
Miles Morales is still just your average teenager. He has unexpectedly become totally obsessed with poetry and can never seem to do much more than babble around his crush. Nothing too weird. Oh! Except, just yesterday, he used his spidey superpowers to save the world (no biggie) from an evil mastermind called The Warden.