Grade 1

Everyone is excited to try out for the school talent show. Everyone but Louanne, that is. "I'm just a big, no-talent dope!" says Louanne. All of her friends make it into the show. When the… Read More →

Louanne trips and sprains her ankle as she and her friends cut through the yard of the spooky house on the top of the hill. Suddenly the witch lady appears and yells, "Scat!" Harriet, George, Read More →

Abigail is frustrated. She can't focus on writing and fools around instead. She is sent to the calming down room. After that is music class, and she can't make any of the instrument's work!… Read More →

Ready. Set. GO! Loudmouth George has told everyone he’s going to win the big race. He’s so confident that he doesn’t even bother to train. And on the day of the race, George ends up being the Read More →

Loudmouth George has just started playing the coronet and he’s awful! Awful—according to everyone but George, who thinks he’s the best coronet player ever born. George is full of hot air, but Read More →

George is always bragging. He says he runs the fastest, reads the thickest books, and catches the biggest fish. When Harriet invites him to join her family’s fishing trip, George is nervous.… Read More →

When a family of pigs moves in next door, George wants nothing to do with them. "Pigs are dirty," he claims. "They eat garbage. They're not like us at all." George's friends, however, don't… Read More →

The first day of school can be scary enough as it is without a bully stealing your lunch! And that's just what happens to poor George when he runs into Big Mike, the sixth-grade bully, on the Read More →

It's summer vacation, and Loudmouth George is too busy having fun to do his chores. Now the house is a mess and his mom won't let him go to the movies with Harriet. So George comes up with a… Read More →

Fireworks crackle and boom in the sky. Your friend laughs at a joke. Sounds are all around you. But what exactly is sound? And how does sound reach your ears? Read this book to find out! Read More →

How did Lou Gehrig become one of baseball’s greatest players? What Major League Baseball team did he play for? Why did Lou have to stop playing baseball? Read this book to discover the answers! Read More →

Ajani loves having a dad from Denmark and a mom from Jamaica. Ajani speaks three languages and gets to spend summers with his grandparents in the coolest places. But when a classmate… Read More →

Agnes has a beak that can crush bones and arms and stretch wide as a car—but that doesn't make her a monster! After she comes across a postcard, Agnes, a giant Pacific octopus, strikes up a… Read More →

An ALA Notable Children's Book One day, high in the Andes Mountains, Cuy the Guinea Pig is searching for wild spinach to eat when Tío Antonio the Fox comes in search of Cuy to eat! Tío… Read More →

Big, small, curly, straight, loud, quiet, smooth, wrinkly. Lovely explores a world of differences that all add up to the same thing: we are all lovely! Read More →

Lenny the lion loves his grandpa, King Lion. But when King Lion starts to forget things, Lenny begins to worry. He can't understand why grandpa keeps getting muddled and doesn't want to play… Read More →

Deep in the heart of Heartland lives Ruby Valentine and her trusty parrot Lovebird. Ruby's favorite day of the year is Valentine's Day—she loves to say "I love you" and make cards and treats… Read More →

Lucia is taking a trip through Chile with her grandfather on his yellow bus. First they travel to the southern tip of South America to see the Magellanic penguins. Then they go east to the… Read More →

Ted wishes his grandma were like other kids' grandmas. Instead, she wears jeans, she tells corny jokes, and she likes to play baseball. She also embarrasses him—all the time! But when they go Read More →

A young raccoon who gets separated from her family one night and has to find her way home. One night, Lucy the raccoon follows her family out of their den, headed for the best garbage bins in Read More →

Winner at the 2016 Gellet Burgess Award - Society & Culture at the 2016 International Latino Book Awards. Lucy is a lightning bug and the most talented flyer in the squad. There's just… Read More →

Luis de Torres is a secret Jew, a Catholic convert, who, in his heart, remains Jewish. When the Inquisition comes and Jews are forced to leave Spain, Luis decides to join a sailing expedition Read More →

Luis wishes Nico wasn't leaving for the Army. To show Nico he doesn't need to go, Luis begins a mural on the alleyway wall. Their house, the river, the Parque de las Ardillas—it's the world,… Read More →