Reading is the gateway to another world, a medium that can fill us with joy on one page and break our hearts on the next. We travel along page by page with characters, crying, laughing, screaming, and we begin to understand the world in a new way. The happiness of the character becomes the happiness.
Among the books hitting shelves early this month are a YA fantasy series opener set in the Buffyverse, a picture book about a budding playground romance, a middle grade mystery series opener, and many more.