Spice Road, Book 1 by Maiya Ibrahim, Delacorte Press, 464 pages ($19.99) Age 12 and up. Australian author Maiya Ibrahim makes a dazzling debut with this first in an epic fantasy trilogy set in an ...

A new epic fantasy series begins with Spice Road, Maiya Ibrahim’s YA debut inspired by Arab and Middle Eastern mythology—with a huge dose of magic too. In this story, we meet a fierce 16-year ...