by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2024 | Non-Fiction
A stirring picture book biography of one of Latin America’s most beloved singers and political activists, Mercedes Sosa. Have you ever heard a song that made your heart soar? A canción that captured your corazón? A voice so powerful that it made you feel ready...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
A series of middle-grade graphic novels retelling Indigenous Mexican tales, adapted from David Bowles’s Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky, a translation of essential pre-Columbian stories from Mesoamerica. In the age of Maya demigods, two carefree brothers...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 9, 2024 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Sayam has always been different from other kids―he’s very short for his age, his best friend is a monkey, and most curious of all: he was born from an egg! His grandmother, a witch, found him and taught him all the ancient magic she uses to help her people. So when a...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 8, 2024 | Non-Fiction
In this memoir for young readers, Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya reflects on her groundbreaking career and her fight for identity in professional sports. Caster Semenya is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a three-time world champion in track from South...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 8, 2024 | Picture Book
From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and Caldecott Honoree Peter Sís: a transcendent picture book featuring the poem that will travel into space aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper. As part of her tenure as U.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón has written “In Praise of Mystery,” which...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 8, 2024 | Non-Fiction
Award-winning author Paula Yoo delivers a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles’s 1992 uprising and its impact on its Korean and Black American communities. In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 8, 2024 | Non-Fiction
Learn about the deadly and unexpected blizzard that slammed the Midwestern United States in 1888 and doomed many young lives in this addition to the New York Times Bestselling What Was? series. On January 12, 1888, a surprise blizzard broke out in the middle of the...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 8, 2024 | Picture Book
A charming and funny space-based story about the power of friendship and memory, perfect for fans of Oliver Jeffers, Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug, and The Invisible String, from the senior correspondent at WNYC’s Peabody Award-winning podcast and radio...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 8, 2024 | Picture Book
Through a tale of celestial friendship, Total Solar Eclipse: A Stellar Friendship Story explores the awe-inspiring phenomenon of a total solar eclipse and the unexpected ways we shine together. Also available in Spanish as Eclipse total de Sol: Un cuento de amistad....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 8, 2024 | Non-Fiction
Learn about the phenomenon of a solar eclipse just in time for the Great American Eclipse that will take place on April 8, 2024 in this title in the Who HQ Now series featuring newsmakers and trending topics. Just in time for the third North American total solar...
