Activism & Social Justice
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Camilla, Super Helper
From the Series Camilla the Cartographer
Can super helpers Camilla and Parsley help their friends the bees find enough flowers and water during a hot, dry summer? Camilla the Cartographer and her loyal sidekick Parsley are back… Read More →
Camilla the Cartographer — Hardcover Set
From the Series Camilla the Cartographer
Explore with Camilla and Parsley as the discover map-making and spatial awareness, adapting to new environments, and building communities—important skills for boars, porcupines, beavers,… Read More →
Dino-Earth Day
From the Series Dino-Holidays
The world needs help to keep it clean. / It's Dino-Earth Day . . . let's go green! Upbeat rhyming verse from Lisa Wheeler and playful illustrations from Barry Gott present many different ways Read More →
Dino-Holidays — Hardcover Set
From the Series Dino-Holidays
Dinosaurs big and small gather to decorate, eat, and even compete in party festivities like only prehistoric carnivores and herbivores would. Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott—creators of the… Read More →
If I Were President
If I were president, everyone who wanted a dog would get a dog, everyone who wanted a bike would get a bike, and everyone who wanted a friend would get at least two . . . With disarming… Read More →
Indigo and Ida
When eighth grader and aspiring journalist Indigo breaks an important story, exposing an unfair school policy, she's suddenly popular for the first time. The friends who've recently drifted… Read More →
Jacob's Missing Book
From the Series Jacob Stories
Jacob—the star of one of the most banned books of the decade—is back in Jacob's Missing Book, a kid-friendly story about book banning, censorship, and LGBTQ+ rights. Noah is confused about… Read More →
Jacob Stories — Hardcover Set
From the Series Jacob Stories
Jacob—the star of one of the most banned books of the last decade—offers three kid-friendly stories about gender identity, equal access to bathrooms, book banning, censorship, and LGBTQ+… Read More →
Justice Makes a Difference: The Story of Miss Freedom Fighter, Esquire
"'Words are powerful,' Grandma told Justice. 'They can be used in powerful ways to do good or to do harm. That's why it's important to always be careful with your words.'" Justice has grown… Read More →
Lantana Inclusive Picture Books — Hardcover Set
Lantana Inclusive Picture Books are stories celebrating every kind of child and family, because all children deserve to see themselves in the books they read. With a focus on #ownvoices… Read More →
Make a Little Wave
Swim with the current, or go against the flow? Savannah has been feeling out of place ever since her family moved to Sandy Dune, Florida. She finds it easier to make friends with animals… Read More →
My Mommy Marches
Mommy says that some things can't be said with just words . . . Sometimes you have to say it with your feet. A young girl watches her mommy proudly take to the streets to march for what she… Read More →
Poison Town
Fourteen-year-old Addie's town is built around a lead and zinc smelter. The company has done an extensive cleanup of its operations, but everything in the town still seems sick; even the… Read More →
Rhythm
In this powerful story of resilience and hope, one girl observes her community through the changing rhythm of each season. In a town once vibrant but now affected by unemployment and food… Read More →
Something Happened — Hardcover Set
From the Series Something Happened
The Something Happened books present and explain sensitive and important events happening in communities across the United States and around the world. Told in clear, compelling stories, the Read More →
Something Happened to Our Planet: Kids Tackle the Climate Crisis
From the Series Something Happened
Join the Earth Patrol! Written to help parents begin conversations with their children about a challenging and important topic, Something Happened to Our Planet describes the narrator's… Read More →
The Green Girls
Emma, Lily, and Fadila want to save the planet . . . but no one around them seems to care. Frustrated, they name themselves the Green Girls, take to social media, and launch a series of bold Read More →
The Littlest Turtle
For years, the little turtles climbed on top of the big turtles to eat the freshest fruit from the top of the bushes. The big turtles ate the fallen berries—sour and rotten. Littlest Turtle… Read More →
The Pecan Sheller
In 1930s San Antonio, thirteen-year-old Petra dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. But with her beloved father dead, two younger siblings to care for, and with a stepmother… Read More →
The Playdate
For one little girl, the prospect of a playdate at her friend Henry's house fills her with excitement. She really likes Henry. He even has a funny dog. And although she and her mother have… Read More →