It’s summer, and a little girl is excited to move into an old country house with a cranberry bog, bullfrog creek, and farm animals that live down the road. But when fall comes, it’s time to pack up an
Val and Chloe don’t fit in at their fancy private school in Manhattan. Together, they ditch school, visit cemeteries and thrift shops and have sleepovers during which they confide all their secret tho
From birth to getting elected as president, a biography told in lyrical prose....From his childhood in Indonesia to his teenage years in Hawaii, from his father’s homeland of Kenya to the halls of Har
The Breathing Series is one girl’s story of unspeakable cruelty, life-changing love, and her precarious grasp of hope. Reason to Breathe and Barely Breathing are the first two installments of this acc
Professor Ridgeway is on sabbatical in the South of France—and the whole family is along for the adventure. Susan has brought her diary to document their vacation fun, but Dumpling isn’t convinced tha
Welcome, Little Monster, to your first day of school.Little Monster is going to school for the very first time. That means he’ll be meeting all the other little monsters, including one who has really
From the creators of the bestselling There Was an Old Monkey Who Swallowed a Frog comes a spooky rendition of the popular “Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” song.As the old mummy makes his way across a gr
From Newbery Medal winner Carol Ryrie Brink comes a story about one unforgettable family.Susan, George, and Dumpling have a special life in Midwest City, where they live with their college-professor d
Taking walks every day in all kinds of weather with her family, little Wendy collects numerous things during her outings—from ribbons and string to balls and wagon wheels—that she uses to create her o
A little boy offers advice about what not to give a mom on Mother's Day unless she is a certain kind of animal, sharing such examples as "Don't give her a rotting log unless she's a salamander," and "
An unusual rat who enjoys inventing things is unable to convince his picnicking barnyard friends that bad weather is on the way until a sudden storm swoops them up in the air, prompting the resourcefu
The summer after high school graduation and one year after her mother's death, Anna and her best friend Kat set out on a trip across the country, armed with camping supplies, determined to be open to
When Princess Peepers loses her glasses, she mistakes a dragon for a unicorn and enters it in the pet show at the Royal Academy for Perfect Princesses.
Pipsie loves everything wild—from dragonflies to oceans to tall, tall trees. She also loves solving mysteries. That’s why she’s a nature detective! When she and her turtle, Alfred, notice that their n
You’ve never met a babysitter like Mr. Pudgins!When Mr. Pudgins comes to watch John, Pete, and Janey, all kinds of crazy things happen. Faucets run soda pop instead of water, the bathtub takes them fo
For Kate Sommers, there’s nothing that compares to summer at her family’s beach house on Cape Cod: the ocean breezes, the clam bakes, the boys. She and her three sisters seemed to have all their “firs
When seventeen-year-old Giulia, the orphaned, illegitimate daughter of a Milanese nobleman, learns she’s to be packed off to a life behind convent walls, she begs an astrologer-sorcerer for a talisman
Some risks are worth taking.…The cards are stacking up against Gabriel James: first there’s Phil, the guy paying the bills for Gabe’s mom (but not leaving his wife). Then there’s Gabe’s new school, fi
The Secret Knock Club is going green!Agnes and the other Secret Knock Club members are excited to be paired with kindergarten buddies, who need help learning to read. The younger kids are so adorable!
A generation ago, continent-sized storms called hypercanes caused the Earth to flood. The survivors were forced to retreat deep underground and build a new society.This is the story that sixteen-year-
