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Refugee
Alan Gratz · Scholastic Press
Pages: 341
Format: Hardcover
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JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft,... |
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Mind-Boggling Numbers
Michael J. Rosen · Millbrook Press
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding
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If you could hike to the moon, how long would it take? Just how many glasses of lemonade would you need to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool? If everyone on Earth owned exactly the same amount of land, how big would your yard be? And how much time would you spend mowing the lawn?Learn... |
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Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968
Alice Faye Duncan · Calkins Creek
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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This historical fiction picture book for children ages 9-12 presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker,... |
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Astrid the Unstoppable
Maria Parr · Candlewick
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Pippi Longstocking meets Heidi meets Anne Shirley in this tale of an irrepressible girl in a mountain village who navigates unexpected changes with warmth and humor.Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," she loves to spend... |
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Visionary Women Around the World
VASHTI HARRISON · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History comes the highly anticipated follow-up, a beautifully illustrated collectible detailing the lives of women creators around the world.Featuring the true stories of 40 women creators, ranging from writers... |
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A Dreadful Fairy Book
Jon Etter · Amberjack Publishing
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
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Readers, beware: what you hold in your hands is a dreadful fairy book. I wish I were narrating almost any other fairy story, but alas, this is my lot. Whatever expectations you have of delightful and whimsical fairies are sure to be disappointed. There are certainly fairies, but most are not proper... |
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Amal Unbound
Aisha Saeed · Nancy Paulsen Books
Pages: 226
Format: eBook
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"Saeed's timely and stirring middle-grade debut is a celebration of resistance and justice."--Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewThe compelling story of a girl's fight to regain her life and dreams after being forced into indentured servitude.Life is quiet and ordinary in Amal's... |
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Robyn the Christmas Party Fairy
DAISY MEADOWS · Scholastic Paperbacks
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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It's Christmas Eve, and Rachel Walker and Kirsty Tate are very excited. They're helping to organize a big Christmas party! There's going to be carols, a festive feast, and a special ballet performance. Or that was the plan, until Jack Frost stole Robyn the Christmas Party Fairy's... |
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Eos the Lighthearted
Joan Holub · Aladdin
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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Get to know Eos, the Goddess of Dawn, in this twenty-fourth Goddess Girls adventure! |
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The Adventurers Guild #2 Twilight of the Elves
ZACK LORAN CLARK · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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I should probably start at the beginning, Zed wrote, when things first went wrong .Zed, Brock, and their friends may have saved Freestone from destruction, but the fight against the Dangers is far from over. No one knows what to expect next from the dark power that forced the elves to abandon... |
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