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 ...

Ibrahim’s superbly written fantasy debut, the first in a series, follows 17-year-old Imani on a quest to find her missing, traitorous older brother. Imani is the youngest Shield in history, 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 ...