Add these two family-friendly titles to your home’s bookshelf:
The Travelers
By K.L. Kranes
Saguaro Books LLC
Taking a cue from the West Side Story or Romeo and Juliet stories of young lovers on opposite sides, this young adult novel sets the scene during a Wiccan war taking place in Northern Virginia. Dagny and Marc try to make a life together while keeping their love a secret from their families. They battle witches and spirits who threaten their families and friends and have the two questioning their beliefs and customs as they try to find a way to be together. (June 2016)
A Long Pitch Home
By Natalie Dias Lorenzi
Charlesbridge Publishing
A week before Bilal’s 10th birthday, his father is taken in Pakistan because of his engineering expertise. Three days later he reappears and tells the family they are moving to America immediately. Bilal’s time in this new country is met with making new friends, speaking a new language, learning the nuances of a new culture and longing for his father to join him and his family. This is a story about a boy finding his own courage in a new world all while learning who he is. (September 2016)
