Sonderbooks Book Reviews

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May 29, 2026

Asian Pacific American Literature Young Adult Award Winner, Everything We Never Had, by Randy Ribay, shows us four generations of Filipino-American men and the obstacles each one had to overcome.

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund

Nonfiction

The Heart of the Psalms

by James C. Howell

Your Last First Date

by Jaydi Samuels Kuba

Children's Nonfiction

Growing Up Under a Red Flag

written by Ying Chang Compestine
illustrated by Xinmei Liu

Omnibird

by Giselle Clarkson

Fiction

Hemlock & Silver

by T. Kingfisher
read by Jennifer Pickens

What Kind of Paradise

by Janelle Brown
read by Helen Laser and Peter Ganim

Children's Fiction

Dream On

written by Shannon Hale
illustrated by Marcela Cespedes

Buffalo Dreamer

by Violet Duncan
read by Ashley Callingbull

Old Favorites

The Man Who Counted

by Malba Tahan

Teen Fiction

Everything We Never Had

by Randy Ribay
read by Ramón de Ocampo, Jesse Inocalla, Manny Jacinto, and J. B. Tadena

Tall Water

by SJ Sindu and Dion MBD

Teen Nonfiction

How the Word Is Passed

by Clint Smith
adapted for young readers by Sonja Cherry-Paul

Black History Is Your History

by Taylor Cassidy
illustrated by Adriana Bellet

Picture Books

Sometimes We Pray

by Mary Wagley Copp
illustrated by Felishia Henditirto

Now You Know Your ABCs...
(Or Do You?)

written by Caspar Salmon
illustrated by Matt Hunt