After You

After YouBy: Julie Buxbaum When tragedy strikes across the ocean, Ellie Lerner drops everythingher marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbsto travel to London and pick up the pieces of her best friend Lucys life. While Lucys husband, Greg, retreats into himself, his and Lucys eight year old daughter, Sophie, has simply stopped speaking. Desperate to help Sophie, Ellie turns to a book that gave her comfort as a child, The Secret Garden. As its story of

David Ezra Stein's (Caldecott Honor winner of Interrupting Chicken) signature humor is on full display in this debut graphic novel

to take just one example

While he fends off political rivals

occasionally omniscient narrator

Who is fast

which gives Zoe satisfaction-in so many naughty ways

Robert Grieve – pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher – decides to go missing

vegan diets

Praise for Dead Boy

When the snow finally settles

“an heir to Graham Greene” (The New York Times Book Review)

mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore