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A Helping Hand — Hardcover Set

From the Series A Helping Hand

This series provides a picture book approach to personal, social, health, and economic issues that will help children understand and cope with upsetting situations they might face. Bullying,… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2022
  • Hardcover
  • List Price: $111.96
  • Your Price: $83.97
  • 4 titles

A Home for Luna

When Luna washes up on a strange shore, she is scared and lonely. She shelters under a wooden crate and dreams of a home from long ago. She soon discovers there is beauty in her new land. "A… Read More →

  • Lexile: 580
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2020

Chloe's Special Family: A Story About Adoption

From the Series A Helping Hand

The Richardson's are having a big family reunion and Chloe can't wait to meet her new baby cousin. But as everyone is gushing over baby Braeden, Chloe can't help but feel different. She… Read More →

  • Lexile: 490
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022
Spring 2025

Dad and Daddy's Big Big Family

Harper is going to her first family reunion! She meets so many people. There's her second cousin Noah. And her cousin Lisa, who lives with her husband and stepkids. Then there's Great Aunt… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2023
Cover: Detective Gordon: A Case for Buffy
Starred Review & Award Count 1 1

Detective Gordon: A Case for Buffy

From the Series Detective Gordon

The final story in this big-hearted series takes on the most important case ever investigated in Detective Gordon's forest—where is Buffy's mother? Gordon faces his old nemesis, the fox, in… Read More →

  • Lexile: 550
  • ATOS: 3.9
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2018
Cover: Detective Gordon: A Case in Any Case
Starred Review & Award Count 1

Detective Gordon: A Case in Any Case

From the Series Detective Gordon

Gordon is on vacation, and Buffy is the sole detective at the small police station in the forest. It is not easy for a police officer to be alone. Especially when there are strange noises… Read More →

  • Lexile: 510
  • ATOS: 3.8
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017
3 titles

Detective Gordon — Hardcover Set

From the Series Detective Gordon

Detective Gordon is a friendly, philosophical, humorous, and thoughtful detective series following the adventures of the rather tired—and often hungry—Detective Gordon and his chirpy… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2023
  • Hardcover
  • List Price: $52.97
  • Your Price: $39.73
  • 3 titles
Cover: Detective Gordon: The First Case
Starred Review & Award Count 1 5

Detective Gordon: The First Case

From the Series Detective Gordon

An award-winning illustrated detective story set in a friendly forest and first in the acclaimed series for beginning readers. Detective Gordon—a mystery-solving toad who loves cake—has his… Read More →

  • Lexile: 510
  • ATOS: 4.0
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2015
Cover: Gold
Starred Review & Award Count 1 1

Gold

From the Series The Fairy-Tale Color Collection

This wordless picture book plays with our assumptions about family. What do we think we see as we turn the pages and how is the ending not at all what we expected? This fractured retelling… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Papa, Daddy, and Riley
Starred Review & Award Count 1 1
Spring 2025

Papa, Daddy, and Riley

Riley is Papa's princess and Daddy's dragon. She loves her two fathers! When Riley's classmate asks her which dad is her real one, Riley is confused. She doesn't want to have to pick one or… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2020

Seal Child

A little girl and a young seal pup are separated from their families after a devastating storm. While the child is searching for a place to call home, she is befriended by the seal pup. There Read More →

  • Lexile: 480
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2021
Cover: Second Dad Summer
Starred Review & Award Count 1 1

Second Dad Summer

Jeremiah just wants a normal summer with his dad. But his dad has moved in with his new boyfriend Michael who serves weird organic food and is constantly nagging him. Worst of all, Michael… Read More →

  • Lexile: 570
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2020
3 titles

The Bolds — Paperback Set

From the Series The Bolds

When a family of hyenas poses as a human family called the Bolds—living in a suburban house, going to work and school, concealing their animal features under strategic clothing—the whole… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2018
  • Paperback
  • List Price: $28.97
  • Your Price: $27.52
  • 3 titles

The Bolds to the Rescue

From the Series The Bolds

The Bolds—the hyena family successfully impersonating as humans—have become legendary in the animal kingdom. Soon their house is full of visitors hoping to learn how to pass as humans too.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 750
  • ATOS: 5.3
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017
2 titles

The Fairy-Tale Color Collection — Hardcover Set

From the Series The Fairy-Tale Color Collection

These wordless picture books play with the reader's knowledge of fairy tales to set up expectations, then show how making assumptions can end up completely off-target. Each book ends with a… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2023
  • Hardcover
  • List Price: $37.98
  • Your Price: $28.49
  • 2 titles

The Hairdo that Got Away

Once a month, Dad takes his son to the barbers, come rain or shine. But when Dad disappears, his little boy's hair grows big, ginormous, out of control—and so do his feelings. A touching and… Read More →

  • Lexile: 620
  • ATOS: 3.5
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2019

The Only Alex Addleston in All These Mountains

Alex Addleston and Alex Addleston do everything together. They chase Flatt Mountain fireflies. They code secret messages. They collect crawdads named Mr. and Mrs. Sassafras Jorgensen. But… Read More →

  • Lexile: 620
  • ATOS: 3.9
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2014

Tufty

Tufty the duckling lives with his family on an island in the middle of a lake. But when the ducks fly south for the winter, Tufty gets left behind. Lost and alone, Tufty doesn't know what to… Read More →

  • Lexile: 610
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2016