Gratitude and a willingness to help others are valuable qualities that children can carry with them throughout their lives. In Ellie Harlow and the Last Sheaf, A.V. Harlow gives young readers a wonderful example of the harmony that can come from putting these qualities into...

Lilly Saves Jim the Frog by John Donkers is a sweet picture book told in Lilly’s own words. Every evening after dinner, Lilly and her Grandpa head out on their bikes to the park, and tonight should be no different. She helps Grandpa grill burgers...

Willow's Rainbow Garden is a children's story written by Amy Yeatts with illustrations by Moran Reudor. It follows the story of Willow, a young girl who is excited to plant her own garden. Accompanied by her mother, Willow goes to the local garden center where...

The Adventures of Moly, The Time Traveling Dog: Traveling on the Underground Railroad by David Gordon follows Moly’s next adventure. Moly is in the middle of an important and dangerous chapter in American history. Slaves are being rescued and taken to the Promised Land, where...

The Snake and the Tree by Leslie Cole starts with a seventh-grader named Max Miller who is sidelined by a bad foot injury right when he wants to shine at soccer. Things get worse when he accidentally breaks his neighbor Ti’s window with a baseball...

A Mermaid in the Thames by Sara Louise Kelany centers on Loulou, an absent-minded junior mermaid from the secret world of Atlantishoo who gets sent on a sudden solo mission. She is supposed to defend a Thames seahorse nursery from pieces of broken boat wood,...

My Principal Is a Time Traveler (Probably) by Javier López centers on Ollie Finch, a fifth-grader who loves hard evidence but suddenly finds his logic tested at Vernon Elementary. Everything changes when Ollie spots a bizarre calendar note written two months in advance that correctly...

The Marvelous Little Frog is a whimsical, action-packed children’s story, penned and gorgeously illustrated by Alain Brousseau. Olivier has never been afraid of anything. When he wakes up at dawn, long before anyone else in the magic forest, to a strange, powerful blue light glowing...

In M.L. Woodward’s children’s mystery novel, Tianna and Michelangelo’s Mask of a Faun, thirteen-year-old Tianna Howard and her grandfather, Professor Charles Howard, are thrust into a major international search. Everything starts with an unaddressed envelope dropped off in Oxford containing only four words. This clue...

Finding Home: A Tale for Anyone Who Has Forgotten Their Way is a fabulous, illustrated children’s book by Mary-Anne Haupt. Four children, Lucy, Abigail, Joseph, and Ben, walk in the woods. Lucy feels lost and wants to go home. Abigail also feels scared. Joseph hides...