(2) 4-6 Photographs by Anna Bosch Miralpeix. "When home is lost and a new one not yet found, children are sent to the Waiting Place." In this powerful photo-essay, the Waiting Place is the Katsikas refugee camp in Greece, which Nayeri and ­Miralpeix visited in 2018. Katsikas is supposed to be a temporary home for refugees from Afghanistan and Iran, but as Nayeri describes in her poetic text, the camp is a "gated mouth" that children pass through and then drift while time slips away. "They forget things: first their sums, their street names, their best books. Then beloved faces, stories.”" Miralpeix's photographs effectively set the "field of shipping crates turned into homes" against a contrasting background of blue skies and misty mountains, highlighting Katsikas's harsh conditions. Nayeri personifies the Waiting Place as a beast hungry for more lives, and the strength of the volume is its focus on real children, including five-year-old Matin from Afghanistan, his friends Ahmad and Hashmat, and his ten-year-old sister Mobina and her friends. Both text and photos compassionately humanize young refugees who, despite coping with unimaginable trauma, have talents and dreams; readers will come away with a deeper understanding of the refugee crisis, which is addressed more fully in a lengthy afterword. A glossary and an author's note are appended.

Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2022

(4) YA Peter Pan's pursuit of eternal youth takes him to a modern New York prep school where Professor Darling teaches strange theories about obscure Egyptian artifacts. Peter befriends the professor's children, Wendy and John, and leads them on a dangerous quest. The literary parallels are interesting, but the ambitious story, peopled with too many unlikable characters, tends to trip over its tangled plot.

Reviewer: Megan Lynn Isaac

(4) YA The mysterious Fausts prepare to take over their prestigious Manhattan school by using the gifts their "governess" gave them--reading minds, for example. But the governess is actually Mephistopheles, and the gifts come at a cost. It's difficult to care about the greedy teenagers and sort out the confusing story elements; readers may be unwilling to do either.

Reviewer: Rachel L. Smith