Upon opening Paul Kaplan's The Thingy That’s Stringy (and Other Ridiculous Poems), young readers enter a playful world of everyday moments and familiar objects that turn into ridiculously silly rhymes. This book is full of short poems that bounce quickly from deli counters selling laughs...

The Adventures of Dori, A Rescue Pup: Mountain Fun is a children’s picture book written by Kathleen Conway and Juanita Ellis. It follows Dori and her canine friends, Molly, Bucky, and Archie, who like adventure and live in the mountains of Silver Mine Holler. They...

Tracy Borgmeyer wraps up the action-packed middle-grade Science Girl Extraordinaire series with Halley Harper: Race to Outer Space. At just thirteen, Halley Harper has proven herself to be an extraordinary inventor, her latest invention being the communication laser booster. However, when testing the laser booster...

Gizmo Goes to a Rodeo by Heidi Heisel is a fun, thought-provoking story for young readers. Gizmo, a cute and funny fluffy dog, idolizes Cowboy Ruff. This cowboy is a dog star in the show, The Tales of Cowboy Ruff. Gizmo wishes he were tough...

Eye to Eye by Max MacNeil is a lovely book of stories for families to read together. Lucy’s grandfather, Max, struggles to understand what Lucy is saying to him until, one day, he decides to get down to her level. Lying on the floor next...

Lauren Ennis sets A Boy’s Best Comrade in 1930s Moscow during Stalin’s rule. A small puppy named Sasha starts out with Sofia and Mikhail, who adopt her during a New Year’s celebration that the government briefly permitted. But their happiness doesn’t last forever. The NKVD...

Drowning the Flames by A.L. Wyss is a young adult fantasy that follows the adventures of Vivian Carmine, a teenage girl thrust into the secret world of mythical beings. Vivian continues her journey of self-discovery and growth as she has to face the Greek god...

In The Adventures of Syd: Lost in Bone Cave by Danielle Simone, it’s fall break, and Syd is ready to go spelunking on her dad’s work trip. For the last four weekends, they’ve been training on ropes and gathering supplies for their cave adventure. This...

In The Funniest Picture Book Ever: AKA Fartnado!, Derek Taylor Kent introduces young readers to a weird little town called Ha! Everything there is built around jokes, silliness, and honestly, some pretty bad manners. The town is full of strange characters, like Lonnie B. Lutz,...

The Adventures of Syd: A Trail of Trouble by Danielle Simone is a children’s adventure. As the story opens, Syd’s father, Dr. Gardner, shows her a destructive woolly adelgid he’s studying. He tells her that it’s an invasive species that is damaging the Eastern Hemlock...