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Moonlight Desires: A Cinderella Retelling by David Tocher

Elegant and restrained, with quiet emotional depth… Tocher’s latest transforms a well-known fairy tale into a restrained meditation on compassion, pride, and the uneasy boundary between virtue and self-interest. Trapped in a life of cruelty, Aurelia never believed escape was…
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Ichiro and the Great Mountain by W. Nikola-Lisa

A deceptively simple, stunning tale of self-realization, enlightenment, and respect for one’s roots.… Nikola-Lisa’s latest is a breathtaking tale of self-realization and awakening. Young Ichiro is content living on the Great Mountain with his parents, but his free-spirited nature makes…
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The Toki-Girl and the Sparrow-Boy Series (7 Books) by Claire Youmans

Splendid, nuanced, and unfailingly entertaining middle-grade read…. Part history, part folklore, and part fiction, Youmans’s vivid, deeply intriguing, and seemingly small story of a sibling pair, children who can turn into birds, tells a much larger tale of the Meiji…