Soccer to the Max by Bibi Belford centers on Sandburg Zaproski, an eleven-year-old fifth-grader who is crushed when his dream summer trip to his grandparents’ Texas ranch is canceled. His sister Millay needs medical checkups, so his parents send him to the Grand Premier Youth...

Scott Sollers’ Way Up North takes us right into a small, tight-knit Inuit village up in Nunavut, not far from the North Pole. We follow a young boy named Nukilik who is growing up fast and wants nothing more than to help his community by...

Little Memory Keepers, written by Mahkiah Barley and Kitty Arceneaux, is a picture book for young readers. One night, a little girl named Aurora has a magnificent dream. She heads into a place called Memory Meadow and sees snippets of her memories in little bubbles...

The Ugly Duckling and the Missing Hat, written by The Rizzas, is a picture book for young children. A duckling feels like the odd one out. He is constantly bullied for the way he looks and begs the author to design him differently. But the...

What would you do if your childhood disappeared almost overnight? Beneath the Canopy by Lynda Riggers takes readers to the German-occupied Netherlands during World War II through the eyes of two children. First, there’s Johanna, who lives in Arnhem. The war has turned her life...

Lexi's Tale is the first book of the Ghost Girls series by David Carl. Lexi is a ten-year-old girl living in the cozy little town of Haunted Hollow, where every inhabitant is a ghost. Lexi is nervous about her upcoming birthday because it will be...

What happens when fear and gossip become more powerful than the truth? In A Little Grace by Janet R. Macreery, a girl called Dory Cooper is living a simple life with her Aunt Orlie and Uncle Justin in colonial Virginia. She has recently moved there...

The Wishkeeper’s Daughter by Michele Ashman Bell starts with a loss. Twelve-year-old Pippa Rowe loses her mother and finds herself alone in the world. It is then that the mirror in her bedroom begins to glow and speak her name, pulling her into Wishmoor Academy,...

Every family has a story of courage somewhere in its past. For the Swarts, theirs begins in 1912 in the Netherlands. Inspired by the experiences of the author's own ancestors, eight-year-old Helena Swart is at the center of it all in Penny S. Ledbetter's De...

A beautiful flower farm is the setting for Willow Tales by Joni Franks. Granny Bloom has grown and sold flowers for as long as anyone can remember. Helping her is a Welsh corgi named Sebastian. The two are inseparable and make a great team running...