SEL: A Self-Awareness

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The Game

From the Series The Do-Over

Marcus and his best friend Taj have never been great at basketball. But during the final game of the season, their coach finally gives them the chance to play. As the minutes count down,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 670
  • ATOS: 4.7
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2019

The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist!

An exuberant read aloud story about a school trip outdoors with rhyming word play and madcap energy, set against the quiet observant Liam. From the award-winning creators of That’s Not a… Read More →

  • Lexile: 490
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022
Fall 2023

The Hoop and the Harm

Udoka Clendon is a first-year university student and a product of basketball systems that have produced professional players. He's been pushed relentlessly by the obsessive mentorship of his… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2023
2 titles

The Intasimi Warriors — Hardcover Set

From the Series The Intasimi Warriors

Set in the parallel world of a monster-filled Nairobi, Kenya, The Intasimi Warriors follows four young friends on the eve of their thirteenth birthdays as they discover they are the… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2023
  • Hardcover
  • List Price: $37.98
  • Your Price: $28.49
  • 2 titles
Spring 2024

The Invisible Story

Every time a reader's eyes approached the library, our story trembled like a sheet of paper in the wind and curled its spine, repeating: "I'm a ghost, no one sees me. I'm a ghost, no one sees Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024

The Invisible You

Everything about Howard's new neighborhood is different—the houses, the school, his teacher, and especially the kids. For the first time in his life, Howard feels like he is different, too.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 730
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music

When Flory's ancestors are forced to leave Spain during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, they take with them their two most precious possessions—the key to their old house and the Ladino… Read More →

  • Lexile: 840
  • ATOS: 4.6
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2019

The Knife and the Butterfly

After a marijuana-addled brawl with a rival gang, 16-year-old Azael wakes up to find himself surrounded by a familiar set of concrete walls and a locked door. Juvie again, he thinks. But he… Read More →

  • Lexile: 790
  • ATOS: 4.9
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012

The Lie

From the Series The Do-Over

Leanna thinks she's doing the right thing when she encourages her best friend, Jenny, to try out for the high school tennis team. But when Jenny makes a complete fool of herself at tryouts,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 960
  • ATOS: 5.7
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2019

The Life Heroic: How To Unleash Your Most Amazing Self

Heroes are superhuman. Or at least it's easy to assume that when you read ripped-from-the-news stories of derring-do. But in reality, almost anyone who's motivated can be a hero, and the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1080
  • Dewey: 170/.44
  • Copyright: 2019

The Little Pirate Queen

Lucy sails across the sea, fixing and mending her small rickety raft, hoping to reach Far Away Island. But when a gigantic wave sweeps all the other children away, except Lucy, the Little… Read More →

  • Lexile: 960
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2021

The Long Trail Home

From the Series Quartz Creek Ranch

Rivka can't wait to get away from her family for the summer. Since that terrible day last year, she wants no part in their Jewish community. At least at Quartz Creek Ranch, she feels worlds… Read More →

  • Lexile: 700
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017

The Love Code

From the Series Lorimer Real Love

Astrid is a teen who has lost everything: her girlfriend to a guy and her social status when her parents lose their jobs. Determined to make her way into university, she joins a robotics club Read More →

  • Lexile: 540
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2021

The Most Beautiful Thing

A warmhearted and tender true story about a young girl finding beauty where she never thought to look. Drawn from author Kao Kalia Yang's childhood experiences as a Hmong refugee, this moving Read More →

  • Lexile: 850
  • ATOS: 4.2
  • Dewey: 305.8959/72073
  • Copyright: 2020

The Most Beautiful Thing (Chinese Edition)

A warmhearted and tender true story about a young girl finding beauty where she never thought to look, now in Simplified Chinese (Mandarin). Drawn from author Kao Kalia Yang's childhood… Read More →

  • Dewey: 305.8959/72073
  • Copyright: 2021

The Notations of Cooper Cameron

Eleven-year-old Cooper Cameron likes things to be in order. When he eats, he chews every bite three times on each side. Sometimes he washes his hands in the air with invisible water. He… Read More →

  • Lexile: 450
  • ATOS: 3.5
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2017
Spring 2024

The Pinchers and the Diamond Heist

From the Series The Pinchers

The first in a funny chapter book crime series about a well-behaved child who doesn't fit in to his family of criminals—featuring a prison break, a diamond heist, and a lie that saves the… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024

The Pipsqueak

You don't need super powers to be a hero...or to make enemies into friends. In Hero's gang, everyone has a special skill. Well, everybody but Pip. Pip isn't strong, he can't run fast or make Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

The Player

From the Series Lorimer SideStreets

Set in the traditionally homophobic world of amateur hockey, this book follows gay goalie Cooper in his struggle with his feelings for a teammate and coming out to his team. Cooper has been… Read More →

  • Lexile: 370
  • Dewey: FIC
  • Copyright: 2021

The Playmaker

From the Series Lorimer Sports Stories

With no team in her rural town, Zoey tries out for Bantam girl's team the Barrie Sharks. She makes the cut and, knowing that the income from her family's farm won't cover the fees, pushes… Read More →

  • Lexile: 640
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2019

The Prank

From the Series The Do-Over

Audrey and her friends only wanted to get back at Hope Barcomb for being a bully. But soon their prank blog post about Hope's father, the dean of students at their high school, gets out of… Read More →

  • Lexile: 530
  • ATOS: 3.9
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2019

The Prince of Steel Pier

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award A Sydney Taylor Notable Book Tablet Magazine's Best Jewish Kids Books of the Year A young teen falls in with the mob, and learns a lesson about what… Read More →

  • Lexile: 680
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

The Rabbi and His Donkey

Hamor the donkey proudly takes Rabbi Moses Maimonides to the sultan’s palace every day, until he is replaced by a faster horse. Then the wise rabbi and the old donkey are reunited, as each… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2023

The Rocking Dead: Book 2

From the Series Dead Max Comix

Seventh grader Derrick's "Dead Max Comix" are such a hit in the school paper that he and Max start an advice column. Derrick and Doug should have asked for advice before they started a band… Read More →

  • Lexile: 230
  • Dewey: 741.5
  • Copyright: 2021