PreK-8

Holland, 1940s, a boy named Lucas gets quite a surprise when he tries out the telescope he is given for his birthday. In the broken window of an old factory, he sees a girl and two begin to communicate through signs. Later on, he comes to realize why...

Roberto, a famous retired soccer player, finds a hummingbird in his yard with a broken wing. He decides to take of it for a few days to see if it gets better. Mateo, his young neighbor who he has never really liked, becomes interested in the bird. ...

With an understanding of the equator comes a grasp of the rotation of the Earth, climate, weather, and many other age-appropriate science concepts. Clean, accessible art on every spread--including diagrams, maps, and full-color photographs--help readers...

In the companion book to She Persisted about 13 American women who never gave up, Chelsea Clinton presents 13 inspirational women from all over the world. They include Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz from Mexico, Viola Desmond from Canada, Aisha Rateb from...

The Librarynauts decide to explore the Moon, the Sun, the planets, and the stars in a book about space. They discover many surprises along the way!

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...

Will and Evanlyn are headed to Skandia as prisoners of the terrifying Captain Erak. Halt has vowed to save Will and is willing to do anything, even defy his king. Thrown out of the Rangers, Halt joins forces with Horace. Along the way, Horace's...

Grandpa has a cold and the only thing to cure him is a tea made from dragon tears. Manu finds a dragon, but his sad stories only make the dragon laugh. Luckily, just when Manu has given up, the dragon laughs until he cries!

This is based on the true story of a courageous girl from Hiroshima who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped. Although she developed leukemia and died ten years later, Sadako never lost her faith and determination as she battled a...

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?

This moving, award-winning novel explores the realities of life of a young girl in Afghanistan. Without political implications or reflections on the current situation in the Middle East, this compelling book examines the harshness of life in a war zone...

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.

This is based on the true story of a courageous girl from Hiroshima who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped. Although she developed leukemia and died ten years later, Sadako never lost her faith and determination as she battled a...

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.

Amelia Bedelia has been gently adapted to retain all the wonderful humor and silliness of the original edition, this Spanish translation will make readers laugh out loud.

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...

While Buzz is at school, Fly Guy goes in search of food. He eats some strange-smelling trash and becomes 50-feet tall! Buzz sets out to get his friend some help.

Although Siburgo is nearly 200 miles from the sea, there has always been a seafaring tradition among the town's young people. When Mar and Ramón decide to get to the roots of this strange tradition, they find the key in the town's library.

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.

Will has finally completed his training and has become a Ranger. The area he is given to protect seems peaceful until Lord Syron, owner of a castle up North, mysteriously falls ill. Along with his friend Alyss, Will goes on an extraordinary adventure...

The life of Nelson Mandela is presented in graphic novel format. This book also includes a timeline, glossary, debate questions, and writing prompts.

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.

Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average 13- year-old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he has armed with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from...

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...

When the raids start in the ghetto, Adam's mother takes her son to the forest and tells him she will return later that night. There he meets Thomas, a boy from his class whose mother also hid him in the forest. The mothers do not return and the boys...

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.

This moving, award-winning novel explores the realities of life of a young girl in Afghanistan. Without political implications or reflections on the current situation in the Middle East, this compelling book examines the harshness of life in a war zone...

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 this magical book, Gilberto discovers that the wind can be an unpredictable playmate. Sometimes it helps him to sail his toy boat, catch apples that fall from the trees, and spin his pinwheel. At other times, it keeps him from flying his kite or...