PreK-8

Bahar Sultan wants to make the most of everything he has in his library to improve his kingdom. The solution: distribute his books among his advisors according to functions. Young readers will learn about fractions and proportion.

While on vacation in Peru, Nico and Marga visit Machu Picchu and meet an 11-year-old boy named Eric Modesto. He earns money entertaining tourists, but he want to works in the mines to help his family. When Nico and Marga hear of his plans, they try to...

Fred's kindhearted father allows the mice in the basement to live in peace instead of chasing them away. When Fred's mother becomes ill, however, his Aunt Jen comes to stay and help take care of their home. No friend of mice, Aunt Jen wages a personal...

This tale follows Ralph the mouse as he finds more danger, fun, and adventure. One day, a couple arrives at the hotel on their way to bring their son to summer camp. Ralph, who has never been to a summer camp, decides to join the boy. There, he spends a...

These short scary stories will surely keep children reading for hours. Poetic, ironic, brief, and magical, these concise stories will surely keep a reader’s eye open while the other wanders into a dream.

Can you sniff out a good mystery? Use your sense of smell and help Cassandra and Max-Ernst in book one of the Secret Series.

Penned with her son, award-winning writer Alma Flor Ada presents a thought-provoking novel about two girls and their search for identity. Margie considers herself to be 100% American. That belief gets challenged when her cousin Lupe comes from Mexico...

On a remote California island in 1835, a young Native American girl is accidentally left behind by her fleeing tribe. For 18 years she lives there alone. This is Scott O'Dell's extraordinary recreation of a true story.

Naomi is a shy outsider who the kids at school see as 'nobody special.' But according to her grandmother, most problems can be overcome with positive thinking. Just when her faith in Gram's dictum is paying off, Naomi's mother comes back into her life...

Ana Rosa lives with her family in a poor coastal community in the Dominican Republic, where paper is a luxury and she alone understands her need to write down her thoughts and feelings. As developers plan to raze the neighborhood and construct a resort,...

Maggie's first attempt at cursive writing earns her the name Muggie Maggie because she can't make the 'a' correctly, so she vows never to read or write in cursive again. After all, she can always use the computer. Will Maggie really go on printing her...

Through a wardrobe, four children enter Narnia, a land ruled by the evil White Witch. The golden lion Aslan is the only one who can conquer her.

Since he became deaf, ten-year-old Horacio lives in a world of silence. Attracted by a beautiful house in his neighborhood, he wanders in one day and meets Beatriz, a solitary woman who is wary of strangers. She rejects him at first, but eventually they...

Brokenhearted to learn that the boat they worked so hard to build has sunk, several boys come up with an ingenious plan to raise enough money to hire a tugboat and salvage the ship.

Kidnapping, murder, and jailbreak are just a few of the elements of Winnie Foster's exciting adventure. This is also the story of the Tuck family. After drinking from a magic spring, this amazing family has been doomed to--or blessed with--eternal life...

In 1992, a baby Beluga whale escaped from a lab in the Black Sea and ended up in a Turkish port. The sailors named him Aydin, Turkish for clarity. With his poetic style, the author recreates the Beluga's journey to freedom.

This classic fictional first-person narrative was the first major work in the picaresque genre in Spain. Full of biting wit and social criticism, Lazarillo's adventures have been perfectly adapted for middle grades in this paperback edition complemented...