1.
Series:
The Homesick Club
Hardcover
Libby Martinez
9781773061641
$17.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Apr 01, 2020
A story about making new friends and missing home, wherever home may be. Mónica and Hannah are school kids in the big city. Together, they have formed the Homesick Club, since they are both from far away. Mónica misses the family of hummingbirds that she and her grandmother would feed in her backyard in Bolivia every day. Hannah misses the sunshine and the tiny tortoise that lived near her house in Israel. When a new teacher, Miss Shelby, arrives from Texas, the girls discover that she misses her home, too, especially the huge sky full of stars...
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2.
Series:
Explosion at the Poem Factory
Hardcover
Kyle Lukoff
9781773061320
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 9
Apr 01, 2020
A funny story, full of wordplay, brings poetry alive as never before! Kilmer Watts makes his living teaching piano lessons, but when automatic pianos arrive in town, he realizes he’s out of a job. He spots a “Help Wanted” sign at the poem factory and decides to investigate — he’s always been curious about how poems are made. The foreman explains that machines and assembly lines are used for poetry these days. So Kilmer learns how to operate the “meter meter” and empty the “cliché bins.” He assembles a poem by picking out a rhyme scheme, sprinkl...
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3.
Series:
My Friend
Hardcover
Elisa Amado
9781554989393
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Oct 01, 2019
From acclaimed author and translator Elisa Amado and award-winning illustrator Alfonso Ruano, My Friend is the story of the meaning of friendship in the life of an immigrant child. Friendship — to be known, to be accepted as you are, to feel safe, especially when you are vulnerable. The girl in this story has recently arrived in Brooklyn with her family. On her very first day at school she meets a girl who almost instantly becomes her very best friend. She feels known, loved and accepted by her. But when she invites her friend to come for dinne...
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4.
Series: Buddy and Earl
Buddy and Earl Go to School
Hardcover
Maureen Fergus
9781554989270
$16.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 01, 2017
“The bond between Buddy and Earl is as strong as ever in their fourth book, as is the playful banter and cheerful artwork that capture their relationship so well.” Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEWBuddy and Earl know that with the right education they can become anything — even a dentist or a hot-dog vendor! So they eagerly gather their silly, smelly supplies and head to school.Soon after they arrive, their teacher, Miss Meredith, is called away and Professor Earl takes charge of the classroom. Buddy works hard at lessons like Sniffing Things, ...
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5.
Series:
Any Questions?
Hardcover
Marie-Louise Gay
9781554983827
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 9
Aug 11, 2014
Where does the story start? Marie-Louise Gay explains the creative process with typical fun and whimsy. Many children want to know where stories come from and how a book is made. Marie-Louise Gay’s new picture book provides them with some delightfully inspiring answers in a fictional encounter between an author and some very curious children, who collaborate on writing and illustrating a story. Marie-Louise has scribbled, sketched, scrawled, doodled, penciled, collaged and painted the words and pictures of a story-within-a-story that show how b...
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6.
Series:
Greetings, Leroy
Hardcover
Itah Sadu
9781554987603
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
May 01, 2017
Moving can be scary, but by the end of his first day at his new school, Roy is happy to find a piece of his old home, Jamaica, in his new home. The first day at a new school is nerve-wracking enough, never mind when it’s in a new country! In this lively picture book from award-winning storyteller Itah Sadu, Roy realizes he may come to love his new home as much as he loves his old home. Written as an email to a friend back home, this picture book tells the story of Roy, whose family has just moved to North America from Jamaica. His new home is d...
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7.
Series:
What Are You Doing?
Paperback
Elisa Amado
9781773060040
$9.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Mar 01, 2017
A picture book that captures a child’s discovery of the power of reading.Before he leaves for his first day of school, Chepito runs outside to play. He comes across all kinds of people in his neighborhood who are reading. “Why, why, why?” he sings, and they each have a different answer for him, whether it’s a man reading a newspaper, a young girl enjoying a comic, a couple of tourists consulting a guidebook or an archeologist studying hieroglyphics. Later that day, Chepito discovers the fun of reading for himself, and he even brings home a book...
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8.
Series:
A Few Blocks
Hardcover
Cybele Young
9780888999955
$18.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Aug 27, 2011
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2011 and a finalist for the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award
"It was time for Ferdie and Viola to go to school. But Ferdie had eleven cars to wash, the highest tower ever to build and a snake drawing that wasn't done…"
Ferdie doesn't want to go to school, but go to school he must, and fortunately his imaginative older sister Viola paves the way. She tells him to put on his superfast cape and his rocket blaster boots and then off they go! Time and again Viola uses her rich imagination to keep Ferdie on his way. B...
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9.
Series:
How Emily Saved the Bridge
The Story of Emily Warren Roebling and the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
Hardcover
Frieda Wishinsky
9781773061047
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 10
May 01, 2019
The amazing story of Emily Warren Roebling, the woman who stepped in to oversee the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was completed in 1883.Emily was not an engineer, but she was educated in math and science. She married Washington Roebling, the chief engineer of the famous bridge. When Washington became ill from decompression sickness, Emily stepped in, doing everything from keeping the books, to carrying messages for her husband, to monitoring the construction of the bridge. She was the first person to cross the Brooklyn Bridge when ...
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10.
Series:
Operatic
Hardcover
Kyo Maclear
9781554989720
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 14
Apr 01, 2019
A story of friendship, first crushes, opera and the high drama of middle school told by award-winning Kyo Maclear in her debut graphic novel.Somewhere in the universe, there is the perfect tune for you.It’s almost the end of middle school, and Charlie has to find her perfect song for a music class assignment. But it’s hard for Charlie to concentrate when she can’t stop noticing her classmate Emile, or wondering about Luka, who hasn’t been to school in weeks. Then, the class learns about opera, and Charlie discovers the music of Maria Callas. Th...
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11.
Series:
Mary Anning's Curiosity
Hardcover
Monica Kulling
9781554988983
$14.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 12
May 01, 2017
The amazing story of how the world’s greatest fossilist found her first huge find at the age of twelve. Mary was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, England. Her father, a carpenter and part-time fossil hunter, taught his children to look for fossils. When her father injured himself and was unable to work, Mary quit school and took up fossil hunting full-time to help support her family, a task that became even more important when her father died, leaving the Annings in debt. At the age of twelve, Mary, with her older brother Joe, found what they believ...
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12.
Series:
A Boy Named Queen
Paperback
Sara Cassidy
9781773063782
$9.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 11
Mar 01, 2020
Who will be brave enough to make friends with the boy named Queen? Sara Cassidy’s acclaimed novel, A Boy Named Queen, is now available in paperback! Evelyn is both aghast and fascinated when a new boy comes to grade five and tells everyone his name is Queen. Queen wears shiny gym shorts and wants to organize a chess/environment club. His father plays weird loud music and has tattoos. How will the class react? How will Evelyn? Evelyn is an only child with a strict routine and an even stricter mother. And yet in her quiet way she notices things. ...
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13.
Series:
What Milly Did
The Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling
Paperback
Elise Moser
9781554988938
$11.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 11
Aug 01, 2016
The extraordinary story of the woman who made plastics recycling possible. Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town’s full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard — the system of numbers you see inside the little triangle on plastics. This is the inspiring story of how she mobilized her community, creating sweeping change to help the environment. On a trip to Japan in 1978, Milly noticed that people were putting little bundles out on the street each morning. They were recycling — something that hadn’t taken hold i...
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14.
Series:
Book Uncle and Me
Paperback
Uma Krishnaswami
9781554988099
$9.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 10
Aug 01, 2018
Winner of the International Literacy Association Social Justice Literature AwardAn award-winning middle-grade novel about the power of grassroots activism and how kids can make a difference.Every day, nine-year-old Yasmin borrows a book from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free lending library on the street corner. But when the mayor tries to shut down the rickety bookstand, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something.What can she do? The local elections are coming up, but she’s just a kid. She can’t even vote!St...
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15.
Series:
Clear Skies
Hardcover
Jessica Scott Kerrin
9781773062402
$16.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 11
Aug 01, 2019
As the US/Soviet Space Race heats up in 1961, eleven-year-old Arno finds his dreams of becoming an astronomer exploding like an extragalactic supernova. It is the summer of 1961, and eleven-year-old Arno Creelman wants nothing more than to be an astronomer. His claustrophobia rules out flying in a cramped space capsule, so instead, Arno dreams of exploring the galaxies with powerful telescopes back on Earth. Arno’s first move: Enter a local radio contest and win a visit to the new observatory that is about to open near his town. The ribbon will...
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