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Series: Quick & Easy Guides A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities Paperback Mady G. 9781620105863 $12.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Apr 23, 2019

A great starting point for anyone curious about queer and trans life, and helpful for those already on their own journeys!In this quick and easy guide to queer and trans identities, cartoonists Mady G and Jules Zuckerberg guide you through the basics of the LGBT+ world! Covering essential topics like sexuality, gender identity, coming out, and navigating relationships, this guide explains the spectrum of human experience through informative comics, interviews, worksheets, and imaginative examples. A great starting point for anyone curious about... + Read More
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Series: Most Marshmallows (Children?s Storybook, Funny Picture Book for Kids) Hardcover Rowboat Watkins 9781452159591 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 5 Apr 30, 2019

Most marshmallows are born into marshmallow families, play with marshmallow friends, and go to marshmallow school where they learn to be squishy. Most marshmallows read a book before bed and then fall asleep to dream ordinary marshmallow dreams. But, this book isn't about most marshamallows, is it? No. That's because author Rowboat Watkins knows that, just like you, some marshmallows have big dreams, and just like you, these marshmallows can do anything they set their minds to. This sweet and silly book is an inspiring reminder to everyone that... + Read More
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Series: The Tallest Tree House Hardcover Elly MacKay 9780762462995 $22.49 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Apr 23, 2019

From esteemed author-illustrator Elly MacKay comes a magical fantasy tale about the importance of working as a team and being a good friend.Mip and Pip are two fairies who live in a beautiful forest near a waterfall. One day, Mip has a brilliant idea to build a tree house and decides to make it into a contest: whoever can build the tallest tree house the fastest wins! Pip, who is much more thoughtful and a planner, reads about architecture and sketches out blueprints while Mip, the speedster, is already halfway done constructing her house. But ... + Read More
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Series: Hot Dog Girl Hardcover Jennifer Dugan 9780525516255 $23.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 12 Apr 30, 2019

A fresh and funny contemporary YA rom-com about teens working as costumed characters in a local amusement part.“I’m wrecked with love for this funny, joyful, bighearted book.”—Becky Albertalli, bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaElouise (Lou) Parker is determined to have the absolute best, most impossibly epic summer of her life. There are just a few things standing in her way:She’s landed a job at Magic Castle Playland…as a giant dancing hot dog.Her crush, the dreamy diving pirate Nick, already has a girlfriend, who is lite... + Read More
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Series: Papergirl Paperback Melinda McCracken 9781773631295 $13.00 JUVENILE FICTION May 14, 2019

Ten-year-old Cassie lives with her working-class family in 1919 Winnipeg. The Great War and Spanish Influenza have taken their toll, and workers in the city are frustrated with low wages and long hours. When they orchestrate a general strike, Cassie — bright, determined and very bored at school — desperately wants to help. She begins volunteering for the strike committee as a papergirl, distributing the strike bulletin at Portage and Main, and from her corner, she sees the strike take shape. Threatened and taunted by upper-class kids, an... + Read More
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Series: When You're Scared Hardcover Andrée Poulin 9781771473651 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Mar 15, 2019

A sweet story about facing your fears, even when you’re scaredIt’s a bright and beautiful day at the lake where a boy and his mother are camping. The boy is just a little scared of jumping into the water. At the same time, not too far away, a hungry bear cub is a little scared of diving deep into a dumpster, where tasty snacks await. Later, when the boy encounters a distraught mama bear sniffing around the dumpster, he’s very scared. But so is her bear cub, who is trapped inside! Bold, graphic artwork moves the narrative along in this mostly-wo... + Read More
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Series: Pilu of the Woods Pilu of the Woods Paperback Mai K. Nguyen 9781620105634 $16.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Apr 16, 2019

A 2020 Children's and Teen Choice Book Awards Finalist For fans of Hilda and the Troll comes PILU OF THE WOODS, a heartwarming and bittersweet story of friendship, loss, exploring complex emotions and finding your way home from debut creator Mai K. Nguyen. Willow loves the woods near her house. They’re calm and quiet, so different from her own turbulent emotions, which she keeps locked away. When her emotions get the better of her one day, she decides to run away into the woods. There, she meets Pilu, a lost tree spirit who can’t find her way... + Read More
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Series: I Will Be Fierce Hardcover Bea Birdsong 9781250295088 $23.50 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Apr 23, 2019

Written by Bea Birdsong and illustrated by Nidhi Chanani, I Will Be Fierce is a powerful picture book about courage, confidence, kindness, and finding the extraordinary in everyday moments.Today, I will be fierce!It's a brand new day, and a young girl decides to take on the world like a brave explorer heading off on an epic fairytale quest. From home to school and back again, our hero conquers the Mountain of Knowledge (the library), forges new bridges (friendships), and leads the victorious charge home on her steed (the school bus).A 2020 Sout... + Read More
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Series: Carl and the Meaning of Life Hardcover Deborah Freedman 9780451474988 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 5 Apr 02, 2019

From the often Caldecott-buzzed Deborah Freedman, a sweet and funny story about finding your place in the world.Carl is an earthworm. He spends his days happily tunneling in the soil until a field mouse asks him a simple question that stops him short: "Why?" Carl's quest takes him on an adventure to meet all the animals of the forest, each of whom seems to know exactly what they were put on this earth to do, unlike the curious Carl. But it's not until the world around him has changed that Carl begins to realize everyone, no matter how small, ma... + Read More
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Series: Mya's Strategy to Save the World Hardcover Tanya Lloyd Kyi 9780735265257 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Apr 30, 2019

Twelve-year-old Mya Parsons could save the world and organize her family, if only she had her own cell phone. A Dork Diaries for today’s socially conscious young readers.Mya Parsons runs her school’s social justice club with her best friend, Cleo. Her lifelong desire is to work for the United Nations and change the world, and then bask in all the ensuing adulation. Her more immediate desire is to get a phone, preferably one like Cleo’s, with a leopard-print case to match. When her distracted dad and her long-distance mom (temporarily in Myanmar... + Read More