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Joe and Sparky get new wheels

by Michalak, Jamie & Remkiewicz, Frank

Sparky is a turtle who likes to stay inside his shell. Joe is a giraffe who likes see the world. When a car appears one day at the zoo where they live, the two...

Tsunami!

by Kajikawa, Kimiko

Ojiisan, the oldest and wealthiest man in the village, doesn’t join the others at the rice ceremony. Instead he watches from his balcony. He feels something ...

Open the door to liberty!

a biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture

by Rockwell, Anne F. & Christie, Gregory

Describes how an African slave, Toussaint L'Ouverture, lead his fellow slaves of the island of St. Domingue (now Haiti) to revolt against the white plantation ...

Dope Sick

by Myers, Walter Dean

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Response

by Volponi, Paul

When an African American high school student is beaten with a baseball bat in a white neighborhood, three boys are charged with a hate crime.

Rhyming Dust Bunnies

by Thomas, Jan

Hey! What rhymes with dust bunnies?

Three cups of tea

one man's mission to promote peace--one school at a time

by Relin, David Oliver & Thomson, Sarah L. & Mortenson, Greg

A middle-grade adapted version of the New York Times bestseller about humanitarianism and providing Muslim children around the world with an education is enhan...

Peace, Locomotion

by Woodson, Jacqueline

Twelve-year-old Lonnie is fi nally feeling at home with his foster family. But because he’s living apart from his little sister, Lili, he decides it’s his ...

Bull Rider

by Williams, Suzanne

All it takes is eight seconds....Cam O'Mara, grandson and younger brother of bull-riding champions, is not interested in partaking in the family sport. Cam is ...

Orangutan Tongs

Poems to Tangle Your Tongue

by Agee, Jon

Have you ever gotten tripped up trying to say a silly succession of similar syllables? Of course--everyone has! It can be sometimes frustrating, but it's alway...