Elskan Triumph: 3 books

You witness the destruction of your father at the hands of Smith, a rouge hockey player-for-hire. Eight years old, you watch from the corner of the room as this great player walks away from your father and causes the ruin of your family. Not yet knowing how, or contemplating the consequences, you...

Naively feeding her school’s anti-intellectual mood by hosting book burning parties, The Night Librarian follows Agnes Jackson as she comes to an act of civil disobedience that destroys the heart of her school and puts her on the run. With a voice reminiscent of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and...

Old Horse is a curmudgeonly, sarcastic and highly intelligent seventh grade teacher in the rural north who supplements his salary by laying sidewalks in the summer. While tearing up one he had laid thirty years prior, he finds the bones of a child. But no child has ever been reported missing from...