Fiction

Gr 4–9—This book does several things really well...

Gr 2–5—In this engaging picture-book biography, Huerta is described as "a teacher…a detective…a friend…a warrior… an organizer…a storyteller…" and so much more...

PreS-K—Pip lives in a charming, snug burrow with his busy family members...

Gr 8–10—When Honor returns home from her brother's military funeral, she finds a letter Finn had mailed weeks before being killed by a roadside bomb...

Gr 6–10—Whatever happened to the colonists of Roanoke, Virginia? Did they vanish? Were they murdered by hostile Indians? Who built the giant monoliths on Easter Island? Where did the people come from and how did they get there? These titles offer well-researched and well-written explanations of the history, the facts, and the suppositions about these mysterious places...

Gr 1–3—Best friends Bink and Gollie are complete opposites in terms of appearance; Bink is short and squat with an explosion of yellow hair and rumpled clothes, and Gollie is tall and slender with a smooth bob and a chic outfit...

Gr 4–6—Ever since the death of her beloved grandmother, 11-year-old Stella has battled to maintain a sense of stability, to "clutch hold" to the spinning Earth...

Gr 9 Up—This is a companion book to the author's Ship Breaker (Little, Brown, 2010)...

K-Gr 2—In this congenial tale of daily life in Kenya, Kioko celebrates his fifth birthday by taking a special bus ride with his grandfather...