Sonderbooks Book Reviews

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May 20, 2026

The Heart of the World, by Amie Kaufman, finishes the duology begun in The Isles of the Gods with possession by gods and our characters trying to stop the gods from blowing the world apart.

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund

Nonfiction

Your Last First Date

by Jaydi Samuels Kuba

Good Soil

by Jeff Chu

Children's Nonfiction

Omnibird

by Giselle Clarkson

The Sky Was My Blanket

Uri Shulevitz

Fiction

What Kind of Paradise

by Janelle Brown
read by Helen Laser and Peter Ganim

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter

by Heather Fawcett

Children's Fiction

Buffalo Dreamer

by Violet Duncan
read by Ashley Callingbull

Orris and Timble
Star Stories

by Kate DiCamillo
illustrated by Carmen Mok

Old Favorites

The Man Who Counted

by Malba Tahan

Teen Fiction

The Heart of the World

by Amie Kaufman
read by Nikki Patel, Homer Todiwalla, Suzie Rai, Vidish Athavale, Mela Lee, and Steve West

Casters and Crowns

by Elizabeth Lowham
read by Nick Mondelli and Jess Moran

Teen Nonfiction

Black History Is Your History

by Taylor Cassidy
illustrated by Adriana Bellet

Stealing Little Moon

by Dan SaSuWeh Jones
read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Picture Books

Now You Know Your ABCs...
(Or Do You?)

written by Caspar Salmon
illustrated by Matt Hunt

My Tiger

by Joy Cowley
illustrated by David Barrow