Behind the wall of an old bookshop, curious young mice gather for university. There, a student named Pete approaches the professor with a plea: help me learn about my ancestor and the treasure he lost beneath the Atlantic. It’s enough... Read More

In Karina Yan Glaser’s "The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden", the thoroughly charming Vanderbeeker children return, and they’re up to their same, always well-intentioned antics. The Vanderbeekers love the other tenants with whom... Read More

R. L. Toalson’s heart-wrenching "The Colors of the Rain" traces a boy’s journey through incredible loss amid tense racial issues. In 1972, in Houston, Texas, Paulie Sanders’s father is killed after fleeing the scene of a bar fight.... Read More

On the day that her family is evacuated from their home, eleven-year-old Cara’s dog, Mike, goes missing. The family rushes to escape the spreading flames, taking only those things that they cannot live without. Though she had packed... Read More

In Kate DiCamillo’s beautiful follow-up to Raymie Nightingale, Louisiana Elefante is back, and she and her granny are out to face the family curse. When they stop to sleep in a small Georgia town, Louisiana is left to wander on her... Read More

"Birds of a Feather" is a lovely story about a boy and his grandfather that opens up space for discussions of grief. A young boy struggles to understand his feelings following the death of his beloved grandfather in Tom Crice’s moving... Read More

"A Fish Called Bad Eyes" is an entertaining story for young readers that imparts important ocean knowledge. In Larry Golicz’s imaginative tale "A Fish Called Bad Eyes", a bespectacled fish reveals his curiosity and caution as he... Read More

"Trevor Lee and the Big Uh-Oh!" is funny and heartwarming, with a memorable lead whose challenges are easy to relate to. In Wiley Blevins’s thoroughly charming "Trevor Lee and the Big Uh-Oh!", Trevor is in third grade and struggling to... Read More