Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary

    An Indian Diary to a French Philosopher By Keshni Kashyap, Illustrated by Mari Araki Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $18.95, 245 pages A high school that has done “Equus” is downright scary. Tina’s Mouth is an existential diary of one girl’s...

Castle of Shadows

    Interesting Story with an Irritating Heroine By Ellen Renner Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 15.99, 400 pages Princess Charlotte, known as Charlie, spends her days wandering around the castle she lives in, hiding from her scary watcher, Mrs. O’Dair, and...

The Star Shard

By Frederic S. Durbin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99, 310 pages The only life twelve-year-old Cymbril clearly remembers is that of being on the Rake – a massive traveling merchant town on top of a wagon. She is slave to the master of Rake, Rombol, and sings at each...