An arctic adaptation of "This is the House that Jack Built" follows polar bears, walruses, seals, narwhals and beluga whales as they chase each other around "the ice that floats in the Arctic waters." Not only is t...

Enter the hilarious world of 10-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's 13 and an 'official juvenile delinquent.' When Momma and Dad decid...

It's 1942: Tomi Itano, 12, is a second-generation Japanese American who lives in California with her family on their strawberry farm. Although her parents came from Japan and her grandparents still live there, Tomi considers herself a...

The flame of love burns bright in the second book of Sharon M. Draper's award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy, now in trade paperback with a new cover.When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerfu...

Carlos Fuentes idolized his older brother, Alex, when he was a member of the Latino Blood. So when Alex chose to get jumped out of the gang for a chance at a future with his gringa girlfriend, Brittany, Carlos felt shocked and betraye...

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Chickadee is the first novel of a new arc in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich.Twin brothers Chickadee and Mako...

Witness the power of family history and family love in this funny, poignant addition to a series that the New York Times Book Reviewhails as “delightful and heartwarming.” It’s summer on 141st Street, and the Vander...

For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached he...

'My old school, St Stella's, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior Collage, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have li...

Bestselling author Rick Riordan presents the second book in the New York Times best-selling and award-winning Tristan Strong trilogy by Kwame Mbalia, now in paperback."Mbalia's universe continues to excite through sheer conceptual br...

Winner of a Coretta Scott King Author Honor\r\n\r\nBest-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia\'s epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and Wes...

THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY - Young ReadersFans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective...

When young Sacagawea first lays eyes on the white men coming up the river, she cannot imagine the impact they will have on her life ― and she on theirs. For the men coming up the river are about to make history, and she is going to ...

In Bed Stuy, New York, a small misunderstanding can escalate into having a price on your head—even if you're totally clean. This gritty, triumphant debut that Publishers Weekly calls "a funny and rewarding read" captures t...

A heart-wrenching tale of forbidden love'A wonderfully complex love story unlike any you've read before. Saeed has given a novel that is both entertaining and important."—Matt de la Peña, New York Times bestselling author Nai...

With family like this, who needs enemies? This is not how Maya Rogers hoped to get famous. First her boyfriend, Misalo, dumps her, and then the revealing photos that she sent to him go viral. Maya's reputation is in shreds, and now s...

A detective in the wild.  Young Precious gets a very special treat.  She gets a trip to visit her Aunty Bee at a safari camp.  While there she makes a new friend, a boy named Khumo, and meets an actor-lion named Teddy, who is starr...

A beautifully written, timeless tale by Cao Wenxuan, best-selling Chinese author and 2016 recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award.Sunflower is an only child, and when her father is sent to the rural Cadre School, sh...

Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even...

Moon Shadow is eight when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco's Chinatown and works in a laundry. Moon Shadow has never seen him. Moon Shadow soon loves and respects this ...

Illustrated in full color. The colorful characters from Sesame Street teachyoung children about racial harmony. Muppets, monsters, and humans comparenoses, hair, and skin and realize how different we all are. But as they lookfurther, ...

No matter how gently Mama pulls as she combs Keyana's hair, it still hurts. Keyana doesn't feel lucky to have such a head of hair, but Mama tells her she is because she can wear it any way she chooses.

Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior.It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the s...

Julie's decision to return home to her people is not an easy one. But after many months in the wilderness, living in harmony with the wolves that saved her life, she knows the time has come. Julie is not prepared, however, for all th...

A storm and flash flood hit the ranch hard, and many animals are lost. But Josefina and her sisters are determined to save the family business. Their aunt, T'a Dolores, wants to try some bold new ideas. Josefina likes learning to weav...

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