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You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Andre Carrilho In this picture book biography, an old-timer tells us what ...

Pokemon Adventures, Volume 1 by Hidenori Kusaka Anyone familiar with children’s television has probably seen the animated version of Pokemon...

Magic Trixie and the Dragon written and illustrated by Jill Thompson Here's what the author has to say about her character Trixie: ...

Puppet by Eva Wiseman The year is 1882. A young servant girl named Esther disappears from a small Hungarian village. Several Jewish men from...

To be fair, I asked him, to tell the story about the chickens. I remembered some about it and used my memory to help him remember. I call my...

Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change by Bonnie Burton This guide for teenage girls explains why girls ca...

Tan to Tamarind: Poems About the Color Brown by Malathi Michelle Iyengar, Jamel Akib (Illustrator) When you look in the mirror, what do you ...

A Friend written and illustrated by Anette Bley Examines traits of friends and how their acts make the world a better place in which to live...

Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Tom Lichtenheld Is it a duck or a rabbit? Depends on how you look at it! Readers will find more than...

Top of the Order by John Coy Ten-year-old Jackson lives for baseball, but becomes distracted by the approach of middle school, his mother...

Earthgirl by Jennifer Cowan Earthgirl follows the eco-evolution of sixteen-year-old Sabine Solomon, who is thrown into the fray one afternoo...

The September Sisters by Jillian Cantor Abigail Reed and her younger sister, Becky, are always at each other's throats. Their mother cal...

Same Difference by Siobhan Vivian Feeling left out since her long-time best friend started a serious relationship, sixteen-year-old Emily lo...

Baseball Great by Tim Green All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up ...

Melonhead by Katy Kelly, Gillian Johnson (Illustrator) In the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Capitol Hill, Lucy Rose's friend Adam ...

Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior by Chris Bradford Orphaned by a ninja pirate attack off the coast of Japan in 1611, twelve-year-old En...

Wild Orchid : A Retelling of the Ballad of Mulan (Once Upon a Time Series) by Cameron Dokey The Emperor of China summons a great army, and e...

Sunny Side Up by Marion Roberts As the hot Australian summer draws to an end, eleven-year-old Sunny, content to be an only child with amicab...

The Swamps of Sleethe: Poems From Beyond the Solar System by Jack Prelutsky, Jimmy Pickering (Illustrator) The nation's first children...

Mighty Casey by James Preller, Matthew Cordell (Illustrator) The Delmar Dogs baseball team is terrible, especially Casey Jenkins, but with ...

The Genie Scheme by Kimberly K. Jones When twelve-year-old Janna, who lives in a small house with her single mother, helps a homeless woman ...

The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm by retold by Laura Amy Schlitz illustrated by Max Grafe A retelling of the Grimm fairy tale in...

A Finder's Magic by Philippa Pearce, Helen Craig (Illustrator) After a mysterious stranger offers to help Till find his dog, they embark...

The Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine Innings by Alan Gratz Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginni...

The Vermeer Interviews: Conversations with Seven Works of Art by Bob Raczka, Johannes Vermeer In this look at seven paintings by Jan Vermeer...

The Roar by Emma Clayton In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out p...

The Cuckoo's Haiku and Other Birding Poems by Michael J. Rosen, Stanley Fellows (Illustrator) A joyful primer on the pleasures of bird-w...

A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing and Shout selected by Paul B. Janeczko and illustrated by Chris Raschka A collection of lively rhy...