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July 16, 2025

Beauty Reborn, by Elizabeth Lowham, is a sweet retelling of Beauty and the Beast where Beauty is realistically recovering from trauma.

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund

by Sonia Purnell
read by Juliet Stevenson

by John Pavlovitz

written by Julie Leung
illustrated by Yifan Wu

by Doreen Rappaport
illustrated by Tonya Engel

Fiction

by Karen Russell
read by Elena Rey, Sophie Amoss, Mark Bramhall, Shayna Small, Jon Orsini, Natasha Soudek, Karen Russell, and James Riding In

by Joan Spicci

by Grace Lin

by Laurie Halse Anderson

by Robin McKinley
read by Diane Warren

by Elizabeth Lowham

by Edward Underhill

by Marissa Moss

by Renée Watson
fine art by Ekua Holmes
read by Renée Watson

words by Matthew Burgess
pictures by Cátia Chien

by AR Cribbins