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Jacqueline Woodson's highly anticipated companion to her #1 New York Times bestseller The Day You Begin illuminates the power in each of us to face challenges with confidence. On a dreary, stuck-inside kind of day, a brother and sister heed their grandmother’s advice: “Use those beautiful...

Winner of a Newbery Honor! Soonie's great-grandma was just seven years old when she was sold to a big plantation without her ma and pa, and with only some fabric and needles to call her own. She pieced together bright patches with names like North Star and Crossroads, patches with secret...

The story of one family’s journey north during the Great Migration starts with a little girl in South Carolina who finds a rope under a tree one summer. She has no idea the rope will become part of her family’s history. But for three generations, that rope is passed down, used for everything...

When Lonnie was seven years old, his parents died in a fire. Now he's eleven, and he still misses them terribly. And he misses his little sister, Lili, who was put into a different foster home because "not a lot of people want boys-not foster boys that ain't babies." But Lonnie hasn't given up...

#1 New York Times bestseller Jacqueline Woodson, the author of The Day You Begin, celebrates the joy and freedom of summer in the city, which is gloriously captured in her rhythmic text. One of The Atlantic’s 65 Essential Children’s Books It's getting hot outside, hot enough to turn on the...

The stunning companion to the National Book Award finalist--from a four-time Newbery Honor winning author Twelve-year-old Lonnie is finally feeling at home with his foster family. But because he’s living apart from his little sister, Lili, he decides it’s his job to be the...

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature A National Book Award Finalist! Evie Thomas is not who she used to be. Once she had a best friend, a happy home and a loving grandmother living nearby. Once her name was Toswiah. Now, everything is different...

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Margaret loves her parents and hanging out with her best friend, Maizon. Then it happens, like a one-two punch, during the summer she turns eleven: first, Margaret's father dies of a heart attack, and then...

A lyrical coming-of-age story from a three-time Newbery Honor winning author Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She's always been different--set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents in an anti-civil rights bombing, by her parents'...

View our feature on Jacqueline Woodson's Feathers. “Hope is the thing with feathers” starts the poem Frannie is reading in school. Frannie hasn’t thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more “holy.” There is a...

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature A Coretta Scott King Honor Winner! Melanin Sun has a lot to say. But sometimes it?s hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. He writes about his mom a lot? they?re about as...

Maizon takes the biggest step in her life when she accepts a scholarship to boarding school and says good-bye to her grandmother and her best friend, Margaret. Blue Hill is beautiful, and challenging-but there are only five black students, and the other four are from wealthy families. Does...

Harriet Tubman was a conductor of the Underground Railroad, a nurse and spy during the Civil War, and an advocate for the Women's Suffrage Movement. Her dangerous journey from enslavement to freedom, along with her commitment to liberating others from the chains of slavery, has inspired countless generations. This short and lively biography invites middle-grade listeners to explore Tubman's extraordinary life, highlighting her remarkable courage, devotion to her family, and unwavering faith in God.

¡Conoce todo sobre la vida de la actriz de la generación Z Jenna Ortega y descubre cómo pasó de protagonizar series en Disney Channel a papeles como Wednesday, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice y más en esta biografía para jóvenes lectores, ahora en español! El papel de Jenna Ortega como Wednesday...

Un oso en el banquete real. En el reino de Dondolot se prepara para una gran fiesta. El rey y la reina han invitado a muchísima gente y Valentina y los cadetes de la escuela de caballeros tienen que asegurarse de que todo vaya sobre ruedas. Entre los invitados, llega Don Avaro, el domador más famoso de la región, con un oso domesticado y atado a una cadena. Al verlo, Valentina y Sami se dan cuenta de que el animal está muy triste y urden un plan para ponerlo en libertad.

Diego and his friends must face the legendary Mexican boogeyman, El Cucuy, in this fast-paced, action-packed middle grade horror that’s Rick Riordan meets R. L. Stine, the sequel to Lost on Doll Island. Stay awake. Stay alive. After going head-to-head with a demonic doll, life for Diego now is...

Roots are our ancestor’s Magick. Summer for Juniper has finally arrived, which means rootwork with Grandma can finally begin! It’s time to collect healing herbs into protective mojo bags; to fill mason jars with all the love, history, dirt, and magick one can fit. It’s time to talk to the...

Who are the “we” of “we the people”? This collaboration between Duncan Tonatiuh and Howard W. Reeves celebrates inclusion, exploring what the preamble to our United States Constitution leaves unsaid. We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union . . . Who are...

The Filipino in Me is a warm and welcoming audiobook that introduces young listeners to cultural identity through everyday values rather than formal lessons or definitions. The story gently explores what it means to be Filipino by focusing on family, respect for elders, kindness, resilience, and pride in one’s roots.

It's hot down in that subway train. But one cool passenger catches young Oscar's eye. She's the Island Lady, and from her bag she pulls a blue island breeze, the Caribbean Sea, the Calypso Man, a steel band, little lizards, and a whole island town. Oscar gets so tingly he just has to dance - and you will too, on this tropical vacation where you would least expect it: down in the subway!