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Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate
Sara C. Levine · Millbrook Pr
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
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This new book from Sara Levine features a cantankerous talking cactus as a narrator, revealing to readers the significance of different colors of flowers in terms of which pollinators (bees, bats, birds, etc.) different colors "talk" to. A fun nonfiction presentation of science... |
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Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time
Jeffrey Kluger · Philomel Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve thrilling and terrifying space-mission failures, told by the bestselling author of Apollo 13!There are so many amazing, daring, and exciting missions to outer space that have succeeded. But for every success, there are mistakes, surprises, and flat-out failures that happen along... |
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Resistance
Jennifer A. Nielsen · Scholastic Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Chaya Lindner is a teenager living in Nazi-occupied Poland. Simply being Jewish places her in danger of being killed or sent to the camps. After her little sister is taken away, her younger brother disappears, and her parents all but give up hope, Chaya is determined to make a difference.... |
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Knock About with the Fitzgerald-Trouts
Spalding, Esta · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover
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"Witty, full of heart and genuinely fun to read...a wacky, lighthearted romp."--The New York Times Book ReviewWelcome to the further adventures of the plucky Fitzgerald-Trout siblings, who live on a tropical island where the grown-ups are useless, but the kids can drive.In this... |
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War in the Ring: Joe Louis, Max Schmeling, and the Fight between America and Hitler
John Florio · Roaring Brook Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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America's black boxing champion. Hitler's favorite athlete. And a world at war. Joe Louis was born on an Alabama cotton patch and raised in a Detroit ghetto. Max Schmeling grew up in poverty in Hamburg, Germany. For both boys, boxing was a way out and a way up. Little did they know... |
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Turtle and Tortoise Are Not Friends
Reiss, Mike · HarperCollins
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
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Two sworn enemies learn that they have more in common than meets the eye, and it's never too late to make a new friend - even if it takes decades!Ever since they were little hatchlings, Turtle and Tortoise decided that they'd forever be separated due to their different shells.As... |
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Pilu of the Woods
Mai K. Nguyen · Oni Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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"Pilu of the Woods is a heartwarming tale full of natural wonder, with wise and lovely messages about coping with grief, facing your feelings, and learning to forgive yourself." - Katie O'Neill, Eisner Award-winning author of The Tea Dragon Society For fans of Hilda and the Troll... |
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Chicken on a Broom
Lehrhaupt, Adam · HarperCollins
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover
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It's time for a Halloween costume party with Zoey the chicken!When everyone is getting ready for the Halloween costume party, Pip's mask goes missing. It's up to Zoey the brave chicken and her sidekick Sam to go looking for the missing mask in the spooky barn.From the author-illustrator... |
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Warriors and Weapons: A Young Adventurer's Guide
Dungeons & Dragons
Format: Hardcover
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This introductory guide to DUNGEONS & DRAGONS is an illustrated primer to many of the characters you can play in D&D, along with their essential weapons and adventuring tools.In this illustrated guide, you're transported to the legendary and magical worlds of Dungeons &... |
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Riding a Donkey Backwards: Wise and Foolish Tales of Mulla Nasruddin
Sean Taylor · Candlewick
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
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Timeless wisdom is found in absurdity in these tales of an iconic Muslim character known as the sagest man in the village - and also its biggest fool.Would you like to know how a thief can turn into a donkey? Whether a cow can climb a pole? Or why you should spoon yogurt into a lake?... |
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