How High the Moon

To Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl’s journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of the Jim Crow South. In the small town of Alcolu, South...

Mostly the Honest Truth

A pitch-perfect story exploring the many meanings of family, Jody J. Little’s tough yet tender debut is perfect for fans of Leslie Connor and Katherine Paterson. After Pop is sent back to rehab, Jane Pengilly arrives at her newest foster home determined to stick to...
The Undefeated

The Undefeated

What do you get when Kwame Alexander writes a poem to shout a clarion call to the world that black lives matter and then, Kadir Nelson gives the words images and faces to make it all real?  You get THE UNDEFEATED. This is beyond powerful.  This is staking a claim and...

Pickled Watermelon

It’s the summer of 1986, and eleven-year-old Molly just wants to spend the summer with her friends at camp. Instead, she reluctantly heads to Israel to visit family she barely knows! With a less-than-basic knowledge of Hebrew that she picked up in Hebrew school,...

Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc.  A woman who lived in the 1400s in France.  Why does she matter to us today?  How can she be relevant to lives where  communication is through cellphones, travel is in  cars on asphalt and concrete highways and wars are fought in cyberspace?  She was a...

Circle

Multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen deliver the final wry and resonant tale about Triangle, Square, and Circle. This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle’s friends, Triangle and Square. Also it is about a...

Mac B., Kid Spy #2: The Impossible Crime

Leave it to Mac Barnett to create this zany series about his childhood adventures as a spy. (You read that right. Whether you believe it is up to you.)  In this second book he describes the case of stolen Crown Jewels. Imagine being a kid and having the Queen of...

Mac B., Kid Spy #1: Mac Undercover

From the esteemed New York Times bestselling and multi-award-winning author Mac Barnett comes a thrilling, hilarious fully-illustrated new spy adventure series! Before Mac Barnett was an author, he was a kid. And while he was a kid, he was a spy.  Not just any spy. ...

Sea Bear: A Journey for Survival

Lindsay Moore’s remarkable and beautifully illustrated picture book follows a lone polar bear as she makes her way across sea ice in the Arctic. Sea Bear is a deeply moving and informative story about perseverance, family, nature, and climate change that will resonate...