Curiosity can lead us to places we never expected to go. In Constance and the Battle for Wonder by Julie Lavender, twelve-year-old Constance Faultsom has grown up in a colorful, imaginative home where her family embraces creativity and a magical place called Wonder. They're perfectly...

Have you ever gone down a path that led you somewhere completely unexpected? That’s exactly what happens to a group of young explorers in Capybaras: Guardians of the Jungle by Adam Koss. It begins as they set off on an ordinary field trip into the...

Canter Cuisine: Shetland Soup by Chef Seff is about four friends, Daisy, Hazel, Iris, and Rose, who are at Culinary School learning how to cook. Their teacher is Chef Marigold. The characters show children how to work as a team, care for a sick friend,...

What if your heart were a cowboy racing through the body on an important mission? In Captain Cardio and the Heart Ranch by Dr. Ally Eruemulor, young readers are taken on a journey through Bodyville. Early on, they meet Captain Cardio, who works tirelessly to...

Corvus: A Crow's Story by Shallen Anne Chitwood is a heartwarming tale and a refreshing allegory. It can be read as a coming-of-age story of a crow who suffers from a paralyzing fear of flying. Corvus is the last hatchling of Maeve and Marvin, and...

In Janel Brown Stormer and Mary Ellen Brown Carlson’s Cousins Too, at a summer reunion at Great-Grandma Brown’s house, a large group of young cousins hears that their great-grandfather, Charles Hudson Brown, once hid a locked treasure box somewhere in the nearby woods. Before the...

In Anne Ward Crocker's Close Friends' Cathedral Adventure, a young toad named Peat returns home from a forbidden swim to news that the woodland ravine where his family lives is about to be destroyed. When workers begin uprooting the forest, Peat makes an unexpected choice:...

Cusp Born by Lorraine Hawley follows thirteen-year-old Abreel, raised in Callosum, a city that sorts children by Zodiac sign and elemental ability. Those who lack sponsors live as Forsaken under strict supervision. Abree is labeled Aries and expected to master fire, but her power behaves...

Clucky's Week is a children's book written by Laura Stewart and illustrated by Pam Casey. It follows Clucky, who is having an unfortunate week: every time she lays an egg, someone collects it. If it's not the farmer, it's his wife, and if not her,...

In Camilla the Chameleon’s Colorful Day by Jennifer Melvin, readers meet the title character, Camilla, who’s feeling nervous. At school, surrounded by her friends like Burt the Bearded Dragon, she’s usually a happy student in Ms. Gecko’s classroom. That changes when her teacher announces that...