PreK-8

The burnt brownies will not get Fiona and Finley a blue ribbon. Winning no longer seems that important to them once they meet Benjamin Franklin and make great discoveries with the brilliant Founding Father. A brief biography on Benjamin Franklin and...

When Mia's grandmother moves in with them, she speaks very little English and Mia's Spanish is not very good. To make matters worse, the grandmother misses her homeland. The two end up teaching each other their languages with the help of a parrot named...

We all have superpowers. For some it's music, memory, adaptation, creativity, just to name a few. What's yours?

Elephant feels something on his head and he is none too pleased to discover it's a bird. Will Piggy will able to help?

Elephant has trouble waiting for a surprise that Piggy has for him.

This book shows children how animal dads help take care of their young.

Children will love seeing how a young boy named Henry finds happiness and friendship with a big dog named Mudge.

Henry and Mudge have loads of fun with the coming of spring.

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a man begins to cut down a big kapok tree. He falls asleep, and the animals that make their home in the tree surround him and persuade him to stop cutting it down. The exotic colors of the jungle and its inhabitants are...

Not wanting to return to the orphanage after his disastrous night at the Amos's house, Bud, not Buddy decides to go in search of Herman E. Calloway, the band leader who he believes is the father he's never known. Thus begins Bud's odyssey. Set in the...

Pavor is a perfect child. He always listens, never gets dirty, and steers clear of others and their germs. When he turns six, he is tormented by a strange nocturnal phenomenon that does not allow him to sleep. The doctor prescribes a radical treatment...

Culled from different sources, the riddles and tongue twisters included here will challenge children to use their knowledge and imagination. Children will enjoy learning little secrets about animals, numbers, fruit, and vegetables.

In a small town, the mice build an impressive library. Animals small and large enjoy story time and other services. One day, however, some rats come and end up damaging a number of the most valuable books. The rats come up with an ingenious plan to...

Pete the Cat loves his white shoes, but he keeps stepping in different things that change their color.

In these five short stories for beginning readers, Arnold Lobel's endearing character explores his feelings as well as the world around him. He invites the winter into his house, discovers some strange lumps in his bed, makes tear-water tea, discovers he...

Told in the first person, a little girl must migrate to the United States due to violence in her homeland. This picture book presents her experience, including arduous traveling at night, time spent in a refugee camp, and her slow adaptation to life in...

This book teaches children what different farm animals eat, where they sleep, and how they live including sheep, horses, ducks, and cows.

Now that Anne feels at home in Green Gables, she longs to find a kindred spirit. When her neighbor Diana invites her to a picnic, she can hardly contain herself. Will she be able to control her powerful imagination or will it get her in trouble?

Readers will be fascinated to learn how a boy born in Mexico City grew up to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and go on to save our planet. Meet Mario Molina and discover how his research into fluorocarbons helped avert an environmental catastrophe.

The United States has many places to live. People choose to live in small towns and big cities. Why do people live where they do? With examples from both the past and present, this book teaches beginning readers about the history of immigration to the...

The princesses from classic tales are on strike because they are tired of being portrayed as weak, cowardly characters. To help them out, the Librarynauts decide to take their places. This turns out to be harder than they thought.

Pizca believes his plant is a machine. The rest of the Librarynauts want to teach him that plants are living things. They journey inside a book to discover the immense variety of vegetation.

From a small village in Japan comes this story of universal relevance and appeal that teaches a valuable lesson. Chibi, or Tiny Boy, is shunned and teased by his classmates for being 'different.' An insightful new teacher encourages Chibi to finally...

Wizard Van Dongen wants to move. He does some magic, brings his house to life, and asks it to find a better location. When the house finds out that it will become inanimate afterwards, it decides to take off running.

Wilma Rudolph was a sickly child--if her siblings had a cold, she had double pneumonia. When she contracted polio, everyone was sure she would never walk again. Yet Wilma was so determined that she did learn to walk, and soon ran. This moving biography...

In prehistoric times, birds faced possible extinction because predators hunted their eggs. The birds called a general assembly to address the situation, but everything they tried failed. A mated pair of birds eventually managed to come up with an...

After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three...

This book clearly explains why and how volcanoes erupt and what happens after they do.

This classic French tale tells the story of three weary soldiers on their way home from war. While passing through a town, the hungry men ask for something to eat. When the selfish villagers hide all their food, the soldiers find a clever way to get a...

Anita, a 12-year-old living in the Dominican Republic during the reign of dictator Rafael Trujillo, must endure the unrest her country is suffering along with her brother and parents. Anita learns the value of freedom, while dealing with the everyday...

Narwhal wants to be a superhero. He has a costume and sidekick. Now, all he needs is a super power!

Billie B. Brown creates the Mystery Club and enlists the help of Jack, Mika, and Alex. Their first mission is to investigate a haunted house. Billie is certain a witch lives in it. Everyone gets too frightened to continue, but Billie and Jack know...

Everyone believes that roosters sing when the sun comes out, but, actually, the roosters are the ones that wake up the sun. One night, however, Nino Rooster has a sore throat and he cannot utter a sound. Samuel begins to worry if the night will ever...

Young Suhaila wishes she had could have known her grandmother, but she passed away long before she was born. One night, a golden ladder appears before her window and her long lost Grandma Annie invites her on a magical journey. Written by Barack...

Saint-Exupéry's classic story tells of a little prince who meets and befriends a pilot whose plane has crashed in the desert. In a tender and often poignant dialogue with his new friend, the little prince relates his adventures on Earth and other...

In book one, Jack is worried about the spelling test he did not study for. In book two, it's Math Week and Jack has to learn how to work well with a classmate other than Billie.

In book one, Jack asks Billie for help because he is nervous about auditioning for the school concert by himself, but things do not turn out like he had planned. In the second book, Billie and others realize how brave Jack is after learning he has...

Jeremy wants a special pair of sneakers, but his grandmother tells him they only have money for necessities. This moving story offers a creative way to teach about needs and wants and not judging people for what they wear.

Lola's class is given the assignment to draw a picture of the place where they come from, but, since Lola left the Island when she was a baby, she has no memory of it. She turns to her neighbors and family for help and from their recollections, she...

In the town of Chewandswallow, food falls from the sky instead of snow and rain. Unfortunately, the weather soon takes a turn for the worse and portion sizes gets so large, the town folk begin to fear for their lives! Children will love the clever...