by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2023 | Picture Book
Catch up with the party-loving hippos from Hippos Go Berserk! in this long-awaited picture book more than forty-five years in the making—from the one and only Sandra Boynton! Hippos have a reputation for wild parties that go on till dawn. People have even gone so far...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2023 | Fantasy
Travel through time with National Book Award Finalist Kekla Magoon in a page-turning fantasy adventure about family secrets and finding the courage to plot your own life story. Since Grandpa died, Dally’s days are dull and restricted. She’s eleven and a half years...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2023 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Two everyday superheroes set out to save the world—starting with their school—in an exciting new middle-grade graphic series from two award-winning authors and a debut illustrator. When cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move to Urbanopolis to live with their...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2023 | Fiction
From beloved storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes the first book in a warm and funny early-reader trilogy about a misanthropic rat and a naive owl—and the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Orris the rat lives alone in an old barn surrounded by his treasures, until the...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2023 | Non-Fiction
Newbery Honoree Carole Boston Weatherford and award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez—the team behind Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library—reunite to take full measure of an iconic performer and political activist. Paul Robeson rose to prominence during the Harlem...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2023 | Picture Book
A lyrical text and vivid, luminous imagery transport readers to Haiti through a father’s tales and a child’s imagination—and invite them to tell stories of their own. Krik! Krak! This is how story time begins. Lune loves hearing her daddy’s stories—the funny ones, the...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2023 | Picture Book
A master of the wordless form imagines a futuristic Noah’s Ark in a luminous sci-fi parable for our changing world. The Earth has flooded. The only signs of humankind are the waterlogged structures they left behind. Peeking out from the deluge are the remnants of a...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2023 | Non-Fiction
The story of one of the world’s most famous diamonds—stolen from South Asia during colonization and now among the crown jewels in London—is a call to action for readers to decolonize and hold their heads high. The Kohinoor diamond, one of the most famous diamonds in...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2023 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades, a YA contemporary thriller by debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their struggles against an anonymous bully. All you need to know is . . . I’m here to divide and conquer. Like...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2023 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Brand-new first grader Ava Lin is determined to find a best friend—even if she’s a bit unclear on how to go about it—in this launch of a funny, super relatable chapter-book series. Ava Lin is six and a half years old, and she loves bubble tea, finding treasures, and...
