From the award-winning author of The Every and the illustrator behind the beloved picture book Her Right Foot comes an endearing and beautifully illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals.. Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes - to see everything...
Freewater ...
Author: Amina Luqman-Dawson
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young...
Debut author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children's escape from a plantation and themany ways they find freedom.Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved...
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The Last Cuentista
Author: Donna Barba Higuera
Publisher: Levine Querido
Haba una vez . . .There lived a girl named Petra Pea, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet....
When You Trap a Tiger
Author: Tae Keller
Publisher: Random House Books for Young...
An uplifting story of a girl discovering a secret family history when she makes a deal with a magical tiger from her grandmother's stories, the Korean version of "Once upon a time..."Some stories refuse to stay bottled up...When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight...
New Kid
Author: Jerry Craft
Publisher: HarperCollins
Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life....
A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences:...
Author: Jennifer Serravallo
Publisher: HarperCollins
Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life....
Merci Surez Changes Gears
Author: MEG MEDINA
Publisher: Candlewick
Winner of the 2019 Newbery MedalThoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina.Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never...
Hello, Universe
Author: Erin Entrada Kelly
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Acclaimed and award-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly's Hello, Universe is a funny and poignant neighborhood story about unexpected friendships. Told from four intertwining points of view - two boys and two girls - the novel celebrates bravery, being different, and finding your inner bayani (hero) , and it's perfect for fans...
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Author: Kelly Regan Barnhill
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
Winner of the 2017 Newbery Award The New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 A School Library Journal...
Last Stop on Market Street
Author: Matt de la Peña
Publisher: G.P. Putnams Sons Books...
#1 New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller Winner of the Newbery Medal A Caldecott Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book This award-winning modern classic - a must-have for every childs home library - is an inclusive ode to kindness, empathy, gratitude, and finding joy in unexpected places, and celebrates...
The Crossover
Author: Kwame Alexander
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
2015 Newbery Medal Winner2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award WinnerNew York Times Bestseller "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin...
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated...
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Winner of the 2014 Newbery Medal Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo.It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described...
The One and Only Ivan
Author: Katherine Applegate
Publisher: Harper
Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller, this stirring and unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated novel is told from the point-of-view...
Dead End in Norvelt (Norvelt Series,...
Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: Square Fish
Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the years best contribution to childrens literature and the Scott ODell Award for Historical Fiction!Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation...
Moon Over Manifest
Author: Clare Vanderpool
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young...
The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign Id seen only in Gideons stories: Manifest - a town with a rich past and a bright future. Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an old friend for the summer...
When You Reach Me
Author: Rebecca Stead
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Winner of the 2010 John Newbery MedalFour mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever.By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy on the corner.But...
The Graveyard Book
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperCollins
The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from...
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices...
Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters.Maidens, monks, and millers' sons - in these pages, readers will meet them all. There's Hugo, the lord's nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly,...
The Higher Power of Lucky (Hard...
Author: William Prynne
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young...
Lucky, age ten, cant wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43) , the rock-bottom only choice she has. Its all Brigittes fault -- for wanting to go back to France. Guardians are supposed to stay put and look...
Criss Cross
Author: Lynne Rae Perkins
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good. To her. Soon. In the meantime, Debbie loses a necklace and finds a necklace (and boy does the necklace have a story to tell) , she goes jeans shopping with her mother (an accomplishment in diplomacy) , she learns to drive shift in a truck (illegally) , she saves...
Kira-Kira
Author: Cynthia Kadohata
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young...
A Japanese-American family struggles to build a new life in the Deep South of Georgia in this luminous novel, winner of the Newbery Medal.kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra) : glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep...
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story...
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick
The beloved author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE enlightens us with a tale of adventure, despair, love, and soup.Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with...
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Author: Avi.
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
H "Avi's plot is engineered for maximum thrills, with twists, turns, and treachery aplenty. . . . A page-turner to delight Avi's fans, it will leave readers hoping for a sequel."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) H " . . . [T]he book is a page-turner from beginning to end . . . [A] meticulously crafted...
A single shard
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Clarion Books
In this Newbery Medal-winning book set in 12th century Korea, Tree-ear, a 13-year-old orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter's craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday....
A Year Down Yonder
Author: Richard Peck
Publisher: Dial Books for Young...
Winner of the Newbery Medal "Peck charms readers once again with this entertaining sequel to A Long Way from Chicago" - School Library Journal (starred review) It was within the pages of Richard Peck's Newbery Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago that Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel first made their...
