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Nowhere Boy

KATHERINE MARSH · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Nowhere Boy is a timely, poignant tale of family, sacrifice and the friendship between a young Syrian refugee and an American boy living in Brussels.Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty...
 
 
A Tiger Called Tomás

Charlotte Zolotow · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

After moving, Thomas is reluctant to make new friends until he experiences a special night of trick-or-treating.
 
 
Awesome!

Craig Shuttlewood · Capstone Editions
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Marvin the moose and Woody the beaver are BFFs. But their friendship is tested when Marvin does something totally AWESOME and Woody remains ordinary. The other forest animals now adore Marvin - calling in his new superhero services to help right wrongs, solve problems, and fix trouble....
 
 
The Stuff of Stars

MARION BAUER · Candlewick
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor winner Ekua Holmes celebrate the birth of every child.Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! Stars caught fire and burned...
 
 
Magnificent Birds

CANDLEWICK PRESS. · Candlewick Studio
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Attractive and informative, this celebration of magnificent birds around the world will set hearts soaring - a perfect gift for avid bird-watchers and art lovers alike.From the bird of paradise that performs an extravagant courtship dance in the rain forest to the bar-tailed godwit that...
 
 
I am Neil Armstrong

Brad Meltzer · Dial Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Neil Armstrong's journey to the moon is the focus of the fifteenth picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes.This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live...
 
 
Ada Lace, on the Case

Emily Calandrelli · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

From Emily Calandrelli - host of Xploration Outer Space, correspondent on Bill Nye Saves the World, and graduate of MIT - comes the first novel in a brand-new chapter book series about an eight-year-old girl with a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries with technology.Ada Lace...
 
 
The Dollar Kids

JENNIFER RICHARD JACOBSON · Candlewick
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

When a family buys a house in a struggling town for just one dollar, they're hoping to start over - but have they traded one set of problems for another?Twelve-year-old Lowen Grover, a budding comic-book artist, is still reeling from the shooting death of his friend Abe when he stumbles...