"Dragonwatch" is the first follow-up volume to Brandon Mull’s best-selling Fablehaven series. Siblings Kendra and Seth Sorenson live with their grandparents on a farm in Connecticut, but theirs is no ordinary pastoral life. Ever since... Read More

A music-box ballerina jumps and twirls with enthusiasm, in Penny Harrison’s Dance with Me. Creative and fluid, dreamlike illustrations from Gwynneth Jones help turn a little girl’s room into a field of flowers, a sandy seaside, and a... Read More

As Baboon taps out a beat on his drum, he is inspired by the magic of wishing on a star, in Kat Kronenberg’s "Dream Big", a story about friendship, positive thinking, and believing in yourself. Illustrations from Stephanie Dehennin... Read More

The “History in 50” series collects linked essays on particular topics; the previous volume was about disasters. In "A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes", former children’s librarian Gale Eaton examines history’s hoaxes and asks... Read More

On August 26, 1919, Fannie Sellins was shot dead in Natrona, Pennsylvania, while trying to defuse a fight between striking coal miners and police deputies. In "Fannie Never Flinched", Mary Cronk Farrell charts her heroine’s... Read More

“High in the sky, green, white, red, and purple ribbons of light flicker and wave, as if dancing to the sounds of a celestial choir.” That lyrical description of the aurora opens Joan Marie Galat’s Stories of the Aurora, the sixth... Read More

“Design is problem solving and creativity mixed together,” Barbara Beck observes, a unique combination of art and science that will appeal to any kid who is often to be found with a pencil in hand. As a sequel to The Future... Read More

In July 1940, sixteen-year-old Peggy finds a crashed plane and its injured pilot, Henryk, in the marsh off the south coast of England. The Polish airman expresses fear of the war, telling Peggy he cannot go back to the Royal Air Force.... Read More