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Shoham's Bangle
A Sydney Taylor Notable Book Winner of the Crystal Kite Award Tablet Magazine’s Best Jewish Kids Books of the Year Shoham’s bangle jingles and jangles, clinks and clacks. Shoham wears a… View →
Show Your Character
Using a question-and-answer format and real-world scenarios, Show Your Character takes a concrete approach to explaining such things as how to deal with bullying, how to show others you care, and how to react responsibly to a variety of different social situations.… View →
Small World
Through engaging color photographs, this series gives beginning readers a glimpse of children around the world doing everyday things. View →
Social Studies Connects ®
Bring social studies to life with stories that involve and engage even the most reluctant readers. Story characters model positive traits, find clever solutions to kid-sized problems, help their neighbors, contribute to their communities, and discover that they can make a real difference View →
The Key from Spain
A Sydney Taylor Honor Book and CBC Best Children’s Book of the Year 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… View →
The Missing Letters
It’s almost Hanukkah and the dreidel-maker’s shop is busy. But all is not well for the four Hebrew letters that will soon go on the wooden tops. The Heys, the Nuns, and the Shins are jealous of everyone’s favorite letter, the Gimel.… View →
The Most Beautiful Thing
A warmhearted and tender true story about a young girl finding beauty where she never thought to look. When young Kalia wants ice cream, she has to make do with ice cubes from the freezer. When she wants a new dress for the first day of school, her mother gives… View →
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 experiences as a Hmong refugee, this moving picture book portrays a… View →
The Sound of Kindness
This heartwarming book touches on the themes of kindness and socio-emotional resonance and the idea that our words matter. Follow an adult and child as they explore their neighborhood, listening for the sounds of kindness. Words of friendship, gratitude, support, View →
The Upside-Down Boy and the Israeli Prime Minister
Daniel likes to do things backwards and upside down. He walks on his hands, walks backwards, and eats cereal for dinner. His teacher reminds him that when he visits the Prime Minister’s office, he must be on his best behavior. But when something unexpected happens, can Daniel… View →
Time Goes By
Let’s spend a whole day (or a whole year) in the same place and watch events unfold. Eight large-scale illustrations combine with simple text to tell the story. A clock or calendar shows time passing, while a “search and find” feature encourages readers to study the… View →
Una bolsa de plástico (One Plastic Bag)
En Njau, Gambia, las bolsas de plástico se apilaban en montones horribles al costado de los caminos. El agua se estancaba en ellas y atraía mosquitos y enfermedades. Mataban el ganado que intentaba comerlas. Algo tenía que cambiar. Isatou Ceesay fue ese cambio. Encontró una manera View →
Ways We Go (LOOK! Books ™)
If you want to go from one place to another, how do you go? You might go by car or bus. If you lived 200 years ago, you would go by horse or in a carriage. Look at ways we go today and imagine ways kids will go places 200 years from now. View →
What a Job (LOOK! Books ™)
Some people work at a job in an office. Some have a job in a factory or on a farm. A person’s job can be any place, doing anything. A job may require unusual skills and talents. Check out some of the jobs here and you may say, "Wow! What a job!” There could even be one that is View →
Where We Come From
“Outstanding in all ways, this title deserves a place in most collections and adds a wonderful opportunity for upper elementary students (and higher!) to unpack our complicated histories.”—starred, School Library Journal We come from… View →
Yam Uas Zoo Nkauj Tshaj Plaws (The Most Beautiful Thing)
Zaj dab neeg sov siab thiab hmov tshua uas muaj tseeb hais txog ib tug ntxhais hluas uas pom qhov kev zoo nkauj los ntawm qhov uas nws ib txwm xav tias yuav ntsia. Muab los ntawm tus neeg sau Kao Kalia Yang lub keeb neej me nyuam yaus tam li yog ib tug neeg Hmoob… View →
Yo solo: Historia (On My Own History)
With striking, full-page illustrations, real and fictionalized characters, and stories featuring events that really happened, these histories engage readers’ interests and imaginations View →