From the biography series, Who was..? In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama and refused to sit in the back of the bus, and so she was arrested. This seemingly small act triggered a successful civil rights bus boycott and protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
- In this biography, we learn that Sojourner Truth was an early leader in the fight for equal rights for Blacks and for women. "Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated by a streetcar conductor. She took him to court--and won! Before she was Sojourner Truth, she was known simply as Belle. Born a slave in New York sometime around 1797, she was later sold and separated from her family. Even after she escaped from slavery, she knew her work was not yet done. She changed her name and traveled, inspiring everyone she met and sharing her story until her death in 1883 at age eighty-six."- -publisher.
Preparing special notes to place on the Thank You Tree in the Neighborhood of Make Believe, Daniel Tiger and his friends think of various polite ways to express their gratitude to those who help them.
From the best-selling author of Born to Run, a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America.
Adult fiction book. Sugar, a young prostitute arrives in Bigelow, Arkansas, to start her life over, far from her haunting past. She moves in next door to Pearl, who is still grieving for her daughter, murdered 15 years before. Over sweet-potato pie, an unlikely friendship begins. Age: Adult.
When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time to kill--Mickey finds peaceful acceptance, and people with whom words come easily, even if it is just the pills loosening her tongue. But as the pressure to be Mickey Catalan heightens, her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control.
- Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can't walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. Both in desperate need of someone to help them reach out to the world, Amy and Matthew are more alike than either ever realized. When Amy decides to hire student aides to help her in her senior year at Coral Hills High School, these two teens are thrust into each other's lives. As they begin to spend time with each other, what started as a blossoming friendship eventually grows into something neither expected.
Child picture book. Text in Hmong and English. Alternate Title: Kab lub vaj. “As Ka learns about gardening, the reader learns about traditional Hmong culture as well as the belief that everything on earth is part of the circle of life. Ka discovers the interconnectedness of the earth, the plants, and the animals. She learns the importance of sharing what the earth has provided to feed the animals and nourish her family. Ka's Garden is a place where the earth and all creatures come to life to create balance and harmony, a place where all can gather to celebrate the Hmong way of living."--Website. Age: 4-7
Child picture book. Text in Hmong and English. Alternate Title: Kab lub vaj. “As Ka learns about gardening, the reader learns about traditional Hmong culture as well as the belief that everything on earth is part of the circle of life. Ka discovers the interconnectedness of the earth, the plants, and the animals. She learns the importance of sharing what the earth has provided to feed the animals and nourish her family. Ka's Garden is a place where the earth and all creatures come to life to create balance and harmony, a place where all can gather to celebrate the Hmong way of living."--Website. Age: 4-7
In this humorous picture book, as young rabbit siblings excitedly share the news that rats have moved into their building, worried neighbors inform them that rats are dirty, thieving, and destructive--but are they?
Recommended for Preschool - Grade 2
As young rabbit siblings excitedly share the news that the new neighbors are rats that have moved into their building. the old neighbors inform the rabbits that rats are dirty, thieving, and destructive; but is it fair to judge the rats before even meeting them?
Ten-year-old Robin Brogan's life takes a turn for the interesting when a new family with five children moves next door. And when Robin, who's terrified of dogs, finds a starving, abandoned dog on the beach, it's his new neighbors who help him overcome his fears to save an animal that desperately needs him.
Adult nonfiction book, and e-book. “On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the fore of millennial activism through study, discipline, and conviction. His belief in a world that can be made better, one act at a time, powers his narratives and opens up a view on the costs, consequences, and rewards of leading a movement."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Provided by publisher. Age: Adult
Child fiction book. In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. Part of the Scraps of Time series. Grade: 3+
Child picture book. In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library. Age: 5-8.
Child nonfiction book. “A simple biography for early readers about Louis Armstrong's life."--Provided by publisher. Age: 6-8.
Child e-book. With only five more days of school remaining before summer vacation, nine-year-old Miami still faces several hurdles, such as how to get along with Destinee Tate, his nemesis. Age: 6-9.
Child fiction book, and e-audiobook. In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave. Grade: 3+
Child fiction book. Presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders. Part of the Royal Diaries series. Grade: 5+
A collection of ten original spine-tingling tales inspired by African-American culture and history from the time of slavery through the civil rights era, and designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable......
Child picture book, and e-book. Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, whose family lost everything in a fire. Age: 5-8.
A modern story of passion and betrayal paired with the forbidding magic of a fairy tale.
"When two teens discover that they were both sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family's possibly-magical pastelería, his secret forest of otherworldly trees, and the swallows returning to their hometown."
Child fiction book. When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home. Age: 8-11.
When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.
Historical Fiction: When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home. Includes black and white photographs.
Recommended for Grades 4 - Grade 7
Child fiction book. When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.
Child fiction book. When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home. Grade: 4-6.
When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.
When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case.
A year after the Bayview four were cleared of Simon Kelleher's death, a new mystery has cropped up--a game with dangerous consequences that's targeting students at Bayview again. And if the creator isn't found soon, dangerous could prove deadly.
While true-crime afficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next.
A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini.
Pearl and Wagner, a rabbit and a mouse, work together to build a robot for their science project.
Child fiction book. Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O'Donnell past behind. Grade: 5+
Ten teens head to a house party at a remote island mansion off the Washington coast . . . only for them to picked off by a killer one by one
Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music....At first, Mole can only make horrible screeching noises on the new violin he gets, but he practices and practices. Finally, his patience and dedication are rewarded. Mole creates a magical gift that unbeknownst to him has the power to erase hatred from the hearts of all who hear his music.
A big-hearted romantic comedy in which the First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales after an incident of international proportions forces them to pretend to be best friends
"Debut author Tobly McSmith delivers a coming-of-age teen love story about a transgender boy who's going stealth at his new Texas high school and a cisgender girl who is drawn to him, even as she's counting down the days until graduation. Perfect for fans of David Levithan, Becky Albertalli, and Jenny Han. Pony just wants to fly under the radar during senior year. Tired from all the attention he got at his old school after coming out as transgender, he's looking for a fresh start at Hillcrest High. But it's hard to live your best life when the threat of exposure lurks down every hallway and in every bathroom. Georgia is beginning to think there's more to life than cheerleading. She plans on keeping a low profile until graduation...which is why she promised herself that dating was officially a no-go this year. Then, on the very first day of school, the new guy and the cheerleader lock eyes. How is Pony supposed to stay stealth when he wants to get close to a girl like Georgia How is Georgia supposed to keep her promise when sparks start flying with a boy like Pony Funny and poignant, clear-eyed and hopeful, Stay Gold is a story about finding love-and finding yourself."
Child fiction book. In 1940, when the Nazi invasion of Norway reaches their village in the far north, twelve-year-old Peter and his friends use their sleds to transport nine million dollars worth of gold bullion past the German soldiers to the secret harbor where Peter's uncle keeps his ship ready to take the gold for safekeeping in the United States. Grade: 5+
"Lubna's best friend is a pebble. Pebble always listens to her stories. Pebble always smiles when she feels scared. But when a lost little boy arrives in the World of Tents, Lubna realizes that he needs Pebble even more than she does"-- publisher.
E-audiobook. Meet Joseph Medicine Crow, a man raised in two worlds: according to the Crow Indian traditions and according to White man's rules. Age: 8-11.
YA graphic novel. The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store. Age: 13+
A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.
A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.
Juana & Lucas series
2nd book in Juana and Lucas series When Juana's mami meets someone new, Juana worries that everything will change in a humorous, heartwarming follow-up to the Pura Belpr Award-winning Juana & Lucas. In English with some Spanish words
Recommended Grade 2 - Grade 4
Child picture book in English, and e-audiobook in Spanish. Mia's abuela has left her sunny house with parrots and palm trees to live with Mia and her parents in the city. The night she arrives, Mia tries to share her favorite book with Abuela before they go to sleep and discovers that Abuela can't read the words inside. So while they cook, Mia helps Abuela learn English ("Dough. Masa"), and Mia learns some Spanish too, but it's still hard for Abuela to learn the words she needs to tell Mia all her stories. Then Mia sees a parrot in the pet-shop window and has the perfect idea for how to help them all communicate a little better. Age: 4-8.
Child nonfiction book. Poetry. Age: 8+
This biography describes the life and accomplishments of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, from his childhood on the Asian steppes to his ability as an adult to unify the Mongolian steppe into a massive empire and expand through military might.
The story of an isolated, abandoned castle, and the eccentric inhabitants who bring it back to life. This is a modern fairy tale about being a hero in your own home.