In Tziporah Cohen’s "No Vacancy", an eleven-year-old leaves New York City after her parents buy a rundown motel upstate. At the Jewel Motor Inn, in New York’s Finger Lakes... Read More

A small boy with big concerns contemplates his place in the universe as he falls asleep one night, leaving him with many wild, beautiful, unsettling thoughts. Crisp black and... Read More

Follow along as a woman in a polka dot dress leaves the big city behind in a yellow bus, emerging on an lonely road with hills all around and a tiny cottage in the distance. In... Read More

Opera isn’t at the top of most teens’ playlists, but Kyo Maclear and Byron Eggenschwiler relate the form, and in particular the life of soprano Maria Callas, to adolescent... Read More

When one stormy day turns into two with no end in sight, a brother and sister don their galoshes and head out to search for the biggest puddle in the world—the source of all... Read More

In this charming tribute to the quirkiness of collective nouns, playful artwork and clever captions invite children of all ages to contemplate a variety of amusing scenarios... Read More

Left with an unfamiliar grandmother and only a vague explanation, a young girl wanders the grassy farm at night, befriending an owl, a mouse, and a frog as she gradually accepts... Read More

"Louis Undercover" tells the touching story of a boy’s efforts to summon the courage to say hello to a girl, and to survive his own crumbling family life. Louis is a boy... Read More

A sneaky letter larcenist wreaks havoc by stealing ABCs from around town, in Bill Richardson’s "The Alphabet Thief". Hilarity escalates as rhyming verses, accompanied by... Read More

Kulling’s tale introduces young readers to one of science’s great characters at a pivotal point in her story. Paleontology was a new field early in the nineteenth century,... Read More

A young girl embarks on a great adventure with her papá, counting animals, clouds, and stars along the way, in "Dos conejos blancos", by Jairo Buitrago. The perilous real-life... Read More

"The Stone Thrower", by Jael Ealey Richardson, is the true story of Chuck Ealey, an African American boy born in 1950. He played quarterback in football throughout high school... Read More