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My Teacher Is a Monster!
Brown, Peter - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She's loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won't allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one day... he finds his teacher there!... |
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Steve, Raised by Wolves
Chapman, Jared - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Be yourself!" Steve's mom tells him on the first day of school, and he knows just what to do. After all, wolves are great at HOWLING in class, SHREDDING homework, and POUNCING on new friends!Steve's classmates are not happy. Why can't he behave like everyone else?... |
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Freedom Soup
Tami Charles - Candlewick; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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The shake-shake of maracas vibrates down to my toes.Ti Gran's feet tap-tap to the rhythm.Every year, Haitians all over the world ring in the new year by eating a special soup, a tradition dating back to the Haitian Revolution. This year, Ti Gran is teaching Belle how to make the soup... |
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Let the Children March
Clark-Robinson, Monica - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids. I couldn't go to their schools. I couldn't drink from their water fountains. There were so many things I couldn't do. In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their... |
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Corduroy Takes a Bow
VIOLA DAVIS - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrate 50 years of America's favorite teddy bear with a brand-new, classically illustrated picture book by Academy Award winner Viola Davis. When Lisa takes Corduroy to the theater for the very first time, it's so magnificent and exciting that he just can't help heading... |
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Carmela Full of Wishes
Matt de la Peña
Format: Hardcover
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In their first collaboration since the Newbery Medal- and Caldecott Honor-winning Last Stop on Market Street, Matt de la Pea and Christian Robinson deliver a poignant and timely new picture book that's sure to be an instant classic.When Carmela wakes up on her birthday, her wish has already... |
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Islandborn
Junot Díaz - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Daz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. So when... |
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The Pout-Pout Fish, Far, Far from Home
Deborah Diesen
Format: Hardcover
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Mr. Fish has prepped and packed,And he's made big plans to roam.He's ready for adventureOn his trip away from home!But sometimes trips have detoursAnd not everything goes right.Without his favorite toy,Can he fall asleep at night?Swim along with Mr. Fish as he explores new places... |
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The Pout-Pout Fish and the Mad, Mad Day
Deborah Diesen
Format: Hardcover
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The Pout-Pout Fish's morning has been maddening and rough. Disappointments and frustrations -- Mr. Fish has had enough! It's been one thing, then another, then another stacked on top. He's mad and getting madder. Is there any way to stop?Swim along with Mr. Fish as he faces... |
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Engle, Margarita - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule - until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongs. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright... |
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The Littlest Train
Gall, Chris - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In a small room, down a short flight of stairs, there lives a little toy train...about to have a BIG adventure! There's an endless world to explore, and awe-inspiring new friends to meet. Mighty Max, Chloe Cogs, Sara Speedster, and Farley Freighter can reach all the best sights, lickety-split.... |
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Todos iguales : un corrido de Lemon Grove = All equal : a ballad of Lemon Grove
Christy Hale - Findaway
Format: Audiobook
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"The story of the 1931 Lemon Grove incident, in which Mexican families in southern California won the first school desegregation case in United States history. Told in Spanish and English. Includes a corrido (ballad) , and information about the people involved and events leading... |
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Ambitious girl
Meena Harris - Findaway World
Format: Audiobook
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A girl sees a woman labeled as having too much ambition, but when the girl considers its definition she finds herself inspired and realizes ambition is required to make changes to the world and have her voice be heard. |
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Come On, Rain!
Karen Hesse
Format: Hardcover
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"Come on, rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Up and down the block, cats pant while heat wavers off tar patches in the broiling alleyway. More than anything, Tess hopes for rain. And when it comes, she and her friends... |
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The Snowy Day: 50th Anniversary Edition
Ezra Jack Keats - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrate a major anniversary of a true classic! In 1962, a little boy named Peter put on his snowsuit and stepped out of his house and into the hearts of millions of readers. The Snowy Day transformed children's literature with its pioneering portrayal of an African-American child... |
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Hanukkah Bear
Eric A. Kimmel - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover
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A bear wakes to a wonderful smell that leads him to the house of Bubba Brayna. Bubba Brayna makes the best latkes in the village, but at ninety-seven, she doesn't hear or see well. When the bear arrives at her door, she believes he is her rabbi.Bubba Brayna and the bear light the menorah,... |
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