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Kids don’t need to know what zydeco is, or that Mandy and the Meerkats are a nod to Diana Ross and the Supremes, to dig this spoof of vintage vinyl.

In “Brooklyn Crime Novel,” the veteran author transports readers to a conflicted time in the old neighborhood.

With Burton and Taylor as stars and a writer and director feuding, adapting the scabrous play wasn’t easy. “Cocktails With George and Martha” pours out the details.

In “Glitter and Concrete,” Elyssa Maxx Goodman traces the emergence of drag in the early 1900s, its descent underground after the Depression and its 1980s renaissance, spurred by club culture.

Visit the aquatic hereafter in a fantasy, then track down threats on Martha’s Vineyard in a taut contemporary suspense novel.

His new novel, “Holly,” charges into thorny contemporary debates with a pair of unassuming fiends.

“Impossible Creatures” has prompted comparisons to Tolkien, Lewis and Pullman, but action, not awe, is Katherine Rundell’s strong suit.

New works of nonfiction and fiction transcend stereotypes, and connect a wealth of ideas and facts for young readers.

Starring an undergraduate student at Oxford, Rosalind Brown’s debut novel is exquisitely attuned to the thrill and boredom of academic life.

In “Precious Rubbish,” Kayla E. turns to midcentury children’s comics to help tell her shattering story.