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Cover: 123 Tea Party

123 Tea Party

Join Fox as he prepares a magnificent tea party for all his friends in this perfect first counting book. From learning to count from 1 to 10 to creating a wonderfully delicious tea party with lots of counting activities, this book is a fun and innovative way of… View →

 
Cover: 50 Things You Didn't Know about Ancient Egypt

50 Things You Didn't Know About

This fun and engaging series presents entertaining facts on high-interest topics in easy-to-digest summaries to let readers broaden their knowledge on a favorite place or time period, or just have a few laughs. Each book in this series is filled with facts and… View →

 
Cover: A Better Best Friend

A Better Best Friend

A feel-good picture book about best friendship told with dry comedy and an open ending—squirrel and mushroom are best friends until another best friend comes to play. This morning when I was out walking, I found a best friend. At least I think so. It certainly View →

 
Cover: A Bird Day

A Bird Day

A funny and whimsical picture book about an ordinary family day, told through a bird family, from 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award recipient Eva Lindström. “Wash your beaks, it’s time for lunch—flies again today,” says Dad. After lunch… View →

 
Cover: A Calf Named Brian Higgins: An Adventure in Rural Kenya

A Calf Named Brian Higgins

Thirteen-year-old Hannah Higgins is convinced her summer is ruined when she is forced to travel to Africa and work in a remote village in Kenya with her mom and uncle. Never having been to a developing country, she finds the food gross and the community filthy. She has to live without… View →

 
Cover: Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine

Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine

Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the famous romantic poet, Lord Byron, develops her creativity through science and math. When she meets Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first mechanical computer, Ada understands the machine better than anyone else and writes the world’s first… View →

 
Cover: AdoraBULL

AdoraBULL

A story of friendship, identity and change. AdoraBULL is a funny and heartfelt tale of care between a boy and a bull. Alfred visited a hair salon. He strutted home and waited for the barn animals to swoon and sigh at his adorableness. But… View →

 
Cover: Seventh Grade vs. the Galaxy

Adventures of the PSS 118

Life aboard the PSS 118, a public school spaceship orbiting Jupiter, has never been stellar for Jack. But when he accidentally activates a brand-new light speed engine and transports the ship across the galaxy, middle school gets a whole lot more complicated.… View →

 
Cover: A Feather, a Pebble, a Shell

A Feather, a Pebble, a Shell

Whenever the author-illustrator runs in a field, climbs a hill, or swims in the sea in Israel, she looks for something small to hold in her hand. She finds a basalt pebble from the ice-cold Dan River, formed from lava over 100,000 years ago. Israel’s national bird, the hoopoe,… View →

 
Cover: Afikotective

Afikotective

A family of bears is getting ready for the Passover seder, preparing all the items for the seder plate. When the time comes in the seder for hiding the afikomen, Grandma breaks the middle matzah into two pieces. She hides the bigger piece, the afikomen, that the kids will eagerly search… View →

 
Cover: A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds

A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds

Many seeds travel inside fruits. The fruit is like a suitcase for the seeds. It protects them on their trip. Readers will learn how fruits are designed to protect a plant’s seeds and also to help the plant spread its seeds to new places. With prose… View →

 
Cover: AfterMath

AfterMath

“This book is a gift to the culture.” —Amy Schumer, writer, actor, and activist After her brother’s death from a congenital heart defect, twelve-year-old Lucy is not prepared to be the new kid at school—especially in a grade full of… View →

 
Cover: A Home for Luna

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 smell filled the air. A smell like home, but not exactly.”… View →

 
Cover: A Is for Another Rabbit

A Is for Another Rabbit

A is for . . . A rabbit. B is for . . . Bunny. C is for . . . Can you believe how many rabbits are in this book?! A rabbit-obsessed narrator makes an owl increasingly irate by refusing to play by the rules of a conventional alphabet book. Every entry is about… View →

 
Cover: Our Own Place: All Kinds of Homes

All Kinds of People (Early Bird Stories ™)

In these delightful, illustrated stories, diverse young narrators explore different cultures by comparing and contrasting their own lives to their friends’ and neighbors’ lives. Critical-thinking and comprehension questions get readers talking about the stories. View →

 
Cover: All Out of Pretty

All Out of Pretty

Andrea knows what it’s like to be pretty. Thanks to her gorgeous, drug-addicted mother, she also knows where pretty can lead… At 16, Andrea is yanked from the safety of her Gram’s home and dropped into the backwoods of Ohio, where she’s coerced into working… View →

 
Cover: All the Things We Never Said

All the Things We Never Said

Sixteen-year-old Mehreen is overwhelmed by her anxiety and depression, and she doesn’t believe anyone in her life will understand if she tries to talk about it. She’s been thinking about suicide for a while when she discovers a website called MementoMori.com. The site matches View →

 
Cover: A Long Way from Home

A Long Way from Home

Twelve-year-old Abby has a lot to worry about: Climate change. The news. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. And now moving to Florida for her mom’s new job at an aerospace company. On the Space Coast, Abby meets two boys, Adam and Bix, who tell her… View →

 
Cover: Amazing Africa: A to Z

Amazing Africa

A fun and resourceful book that takes children and even adults on a visual journey throughout the continent of Africa. Readers will visit the pinnacle of Mount Kilimanjaro and learn a few new words in Swahili and Twi while exploring Africa’s rich natural… View →

 
Cover: Carly Patterson

Amazing Athletes

Inspire sports fans with the success stories of Amazing Athletes. These attractive high-interest biographies include a description of an athlete’s career from the beginning through his or her current achievements. This series is perfect for reluctant readers. View →

 
Cover: Amelia's Middle-School Graduation Yearbook

Amelia's Middle-School Graduation Yearbook

Amelia is excited to graduate from middle school, but she’s nervous about starting high school, especially when she finds out she won’t have her best friend, Carly, with her. In her graduation yearbook, drawings and “photos” nostalgically recap her earlier years… View →

 
Cover: American Rock: Guitar Heroes, Punks, and Metalheads

American Music Milestones

This high-interest series looks at key musical landscapes in American music. Each book takes a peek at the key events, performers, albums, and songs in the evolution of a specific musical genre. View →

 
Cover: Abolitionism: The Movement to End Slavery

American Slavery and the Fight for Freedom (Read Woke ™ Books)

This study of slavery in America balances accounts of oppression with true stories of resistance and resilience, centering on the voices of enslaved people. Page Plus QR codes link readers to primary source recordings from the Voices Remembering Slavery collection at the Library of… View →

 
Cover: Amira's Suitcase

Amira's Suitcase

Amira’s Suitcase is a gentle, thoughtful story about a little girl who arrives at a settlement camp with her family and a few suitcases. Before long, she finds a sprouting seed growing inside her suitcase and lovingly begins to nurture and… View →