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  • Welcome to Mars

    Space is still the final frontier and Mars continues to make news and attract generations of young people. In this fascinating book, hero-astronaut Buzz Aldrin challenges curious kids to think …

  • The Griffin and the DInosaur

    Could Griffins have been real? When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions, this mythic hybrid of a lion and an eagle sounded like something people had actually …

  • National Geographic Kids Everything Mythology

    National Geographic Everything Mythology is jam packed with fascinating facts and awe-inspiring imagery that brings your favorite fierce mythological heroes to life, introducing kids to gods of ancient worlds, including Greek, Norse, …

  • Old Tracks, New Tricks

    Wooden train tracks Trixie, Tracky, and Tinker are thrilled to finally join a train set of their own. Unfortunately, their excitement derails when they discover things at their new home …

  • Dragons and Marshmallows (Zoey and Sassafras, Book 1)

    In the first book of this new chapter book series, Zoey discovers a glowing photo and learns an amazing secret. Injured magical animals come to their backyard barn for help! …

  • A Wilcox & Griswold Mystery: The Case of the Poached Egg

    When Penny goes missing from the nest, Wilcox and Griswold are called in to track her down. Was the egg stolen by a rival for The Most Round in the …

  • Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective

    When Kate Warne applied for a job with the Pinkerton Agency, Pinkerton assumed she wanted to cook or clean, but he agreed to try her out as an agent. Assigned …

  • Beautiful Broken Girls

    Ben touched seven parts of Mira Cillo: her palm, hair, chest, cheek, lips, throat, and heart. It was the last one that broke her. After Mira’s death, she sends Ben …

  • Wires and Nerve: Volume 1

    In her first graphic novel, bestselling author Marissa Meyer extends the world of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new, action-packed story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) …

  • Tony

    Tony was all white, large, sturdy, with wide gentle eyes and a ton of love . . . it was early in the morning  around three a.m., but I was …

  • The Hate U Give

    Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Angie Thomas’s searing debut about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence, heart, and unflinching …

  • Malala: Activist for Girls’ Education

    Malala Yousafzai stood up to the Taliban and fought for the right for all girls to receive an education. When she was just fifteen-years-old, the Taliban attempted to kill Malala, …

  • Long Way Down

    An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent …

  • The Losers Club

    Beloved, New York Times Bestselling author of Frindle, Andrew Clements, celebrates books and the joy of reading with THE LOSER’S CLUB! Alec can’t put a good book down. So when …

  • Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

    Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award–winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty …

  • Kaitlyn Wants To See Ducks/Kaitlyn quiere ver patos

    Kaitlyn loves ducks.  Her family loves all the animals. Seeing those apes and lions and elephants and goats and giraffes and bears, just isn’t what Kaitlyn wants to do.  What’s …

  • I Want To Be Like Poppin’ Joe/Yo quiero ser como Joe Palomitas

    Dylan has an awesome friend.  His friend, Poppin’ Joe pops and sells popcorn. Poppin’ Joe has a very fun job. It’s noisy fun! Dylan learns from Poppin’ Joe how to …

  • Soldier Song

    Amid the fearsome battles of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers were urged onward by song. There were songs to wake them up and songs to call them …

  • Starfall

    When Princess Cassia Rose fled her home world of Eturia to escape an arranged marriage, she had no idea her sudden departure would spark a war. Now after two years …

  • The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World

    Fourteen-year-old Doreen Green moved from sunny California to the suburbs of New Jersey. She must start at a new school, make new friends and continue to hide her fluffy tail. …

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