In a world where grown-ups are always right, young readers will be delighted by this bilingual story, which teaches that even the youngest one can teach an adult a thing or two. Frustrated by the crows that steal his chicken’s corn,... Read More

“Fred began to think more and more about the sadness of slavery…she [Mrs. Auld] started much of his misery. If she hadn’t begun to teach him how to read, he wouldn’t know what he was missing.” So begins the activism of... Read More

Mrs. Bright says we have to do journal writing EVERY day. Guess what she says? If you want to be a good writer you have to WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE, WRITE! In this delightful first novel, written for... Read More

If readers want to escape from poetry bound in orderly imagery, fed by a clean narrative line with a tidy epiphany at the end, then this new collection is for them. These poems, in the author’s signature style, are imagistically wild,... Read More

Ryan Coolidge is in trouble. Though only in middle school, he faces criminal charges in the deaths of four adults at a secret government lab, and the prosecution is playing hardball. His only hope rests with his court-appointed lawyer, a... Read More

When Mister Giotto runs into trouble trying to finish his Nativity fresco in the Scrovegni Chapel, young Mario dreams up a wonderful solution in this holiday-inspired introduction to the work of Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di... Read More

Take a quick getaway to another time and place merely by opening a book. Billed as “inspirational folklore” "Broken Gourds" by Beresford McLean transports the reader to Albion a rural Jamaican village in the early 1900s. Sumptuous... Read More

Oaths in blood, bombs, mystery, family strife, discrimination, boyhood bonds—individually they each create an interesting theme for a middle-grade novel. Mix them all together and the end result is "Time Bomb". Set in post-war Britain... Read More