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Cover: Not Every Princess
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Spring 2025

Not Every Princess

Who do you want to be: a princess? Pirate? Teacher or scientist? And where would you like to play: a castle? Pirate ship? Library or spacelab? It's your decision to make, so think away. Your Read More →

  • Copyright: 2014
Spring 2025

Ouch Moments: When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways

Microaggressions or "ouch moments," as they are referred to in the story, are brief exchanges where an indignity, insult, or slight is expressed—whether intentionally or not—from one person… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2015
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
Spring 2025

Quiet as Mud

A sweet poem about being an introvert in a big loud world. Inspired by a quote from the late, great children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, this poem honors and celebrates the beauty of… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2024
Spring 2025

Real Siblings

Follow along as adopted siblings Harper and Wyatt confront what it means to be "real" family in this supportive and heartwarming story. "So he's not your real brother." When adopted siblings Read More →

  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: Remembering Ethan
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Spring 2025

Remembering Ethan

Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Sarah misses her adored big brother with all her heart. She wants to celebrate all the fun times she and her parents spent with him. But ever since Ethan died, Mommy and Read More →

  • Copyright: 2020
Spring 2025

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 →

  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: Sewing the Rainbow: A Story about Gilbert Baker
Starred Review & Award Count 2
Spring 2025

Sewing the Rainbow: A Story about Gilbert Baker

Follow the journey of a boy from a small Kansas town who made his gray life sparkle, unfurling a rainbow of color to galvanize the gay rights movement. Included is a Reader Note that… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2018
Cover: Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together after Gun Violence
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Spring 2025

Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together after Gun Violence

From the Series Something Happened

This important follow-up to the bestselling, groundbreaking, and inspiring Something Happened in Our Town is a much-needed story to help communities in the aftermath of gun violence. When… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2021
Cover: Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt
Starred Review & Award Count 2
Spring 2025

Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt

From the blanket that his great-grandmother made for him as a boy, to the friends he gathered together in San Francisco as a young man, to the idea for a monument sewn of fabric and thread,… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2021
Cover: The Heart of Mi Familia
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Spring 2025

The Heart of Mi Familia

Follow a young girl as she works with her abuela and her grandma to create a wonderful birthday present for her brother that celebrates her multicultural family and honors both sides and… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2020
Cover: They Only See the Outside
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Spring 2025

They Only See the Outside

This collection of insightful and endearing poems explores what kids experience on the inside that cannot be seen from the outside. From topics that readers experience every day, like the… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2021
Cover: This Day in June
Starred Review & Award Count 2
Spring 2025

This Day in June

This Stonewall Book Award winner is an excellent tool for teaching respect, acceptance, and understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. This day in June . . . Parade… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You
Starred Review & Award Count 2
Spring 2025

Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You

This groundbreaking, all-inclusive, uncensored, must-have guide is for teens who identify as transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, gender fluid, or are questioning their gender… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2019
Cover: The Doll Test: Choosing Equality
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Fall 2024

The Doll Test: Choosing Equality

Four dolls. Two psychologists. One landmark court case. During the first half of the twentieth century, schoolchildren in many parts of the United States were segregated—Black children and… Read More →

  • Dewey: 370.15
  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: Snake and Lizard
Starred Review & Award Count 2
Fall 2024

Snake and Lizard

From the Series Snake and Lizard

Snake is elegant and calm, and a little self-centered; Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. With its wisdom, acceptance and good humor, Snake and Lizard captures the essence of friendship.… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2018
Cover: A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds
Starred Review & Award Count 2 3
Fall 2024

A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds

"Should you encounter any of the plants in this book, do not treat them lightly. They can kill you. Or cause you unbearable agony. Or land you in jail. Consider yourself warned." Explore the… Read More →

  • Dewey: 581.6/59
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

A Lot of Silly: A Book of Rhymes and Nonsense

Joy Cowley knows what makes children laugh. In this book full of absurd poems and very short, silly stories, a man takes his tadpoles for a walk in his hat, a cat is surprised by its… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: Call the Bee Doctor!: How Science Is Saving Honey Bees
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Fall 2024

Call the Bee Doctor!: How Science Is Saving Honey Bees

From the Series Sandra Markle's Science Discoveries

Honey bees are among the world’s most important insects. They help pollinate many of the crops we depend on for food. Without them, the global food supply would be in great danger. In 1998, Read More →

  • Dewey: 638/.1
  • Copyright: 2025
Fall 2024

Giant Rays of Hope: Protecting Manta Rays to Safeguard the Sea

Off the coast of Perú, gentle giants swim beneath the waves. Thanks to the work of Kerstin Forsberg, giant manta rays have become a symbol of hope for ocean conservation in the region. Mantas Read More →

  • Dewey: 597.3/5
  • Copyright: 2025
Fall 2024

I Fuel: How Energy Powers Our Busy World

From the Series On the Move

We're mighty fuel—ready to power the world! From lightbulbs and stoves to cars and planes, many things around us need fuel to work. Where does that fuel come from? Follow oil on its journey… Read More →

  • Dewey: 665.5
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

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 →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: The Mistakes That Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets
Starred Review & Award Count 2 3
Fall 2024

The Mistakes That Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets

Scoring a goal against your own team. Copying a classmate's schoolwork. Accepting a dare to jump down the stairs . . . and getting hurt. This engrossing poetry anthology explores making… Read More →

  • Dewey: 811/.608
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

Elki Is Not My Dog

Elki does not have a home—she is a stray dog who finds kindness in the company of a little group of children. They play together during the day, but Elki must stay alone outside every night… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2024