Dodging Cupcakes by Laura Pashley is the story of a seventh-grade girl, Mindy, who moves from Chicago to a small town, Oglesby, with her father. In Chicago, she was a student at a private school, but in Oglesby, she joined a school that was once...

Daphne Higginbotham Battles the Fifth Grade by Rosemary Starr is a powerful story. It's about an imaginative ten-year-old adopted Asian girl. Daphne Xiao-fen Higginbotham loves to spend the summer break playing with her best boy-slash friend Byron who has autism. Daphne believes that school is...

Disgusting Justin written by Justin Frank and illustrated by Lesley Vamos is an engaging, fun-packed children's picture book. Justin is a cheeky youngster who is always up to mischief and running wild. He does hilarious tricks and performs epic fails intended to make his mates...

Disappointment is a Wave (Emotion Series) by Lauren Martin is an educational picture book for young children. Disappointment is a common emotion we all feel regularly. Unfortunately, children feel it too. There's no need for concern because Lauren Martin is back with another in her...

Deer-est Friend is a children's picture book by Sienna Whaley. The story follows the friendship of young Beth and her deer-est friend Poppy through three seasons: spring, summer, and fall. Beth has known Poppy since Poppy was a fawn. The pair spend a lot of...

Life is hard enough, but it gets worse when your sibling becomes your arch-nemesis. Austin and Derek Davenport are two brothers who attended Cherry Avenue Middle School. Derek was only eleven months older than his brother, and they were in the same grade. While Austin...

We all have a song inside our head that plays at a special beat, one that is unique to us. Many of us hear pleasant, happy songs with a steady, regular beat. But Delilah hears a song that’s overly loud, raucous, with an annoyingly irregular...

Dream Shatter is the first installment of a new series by Ann Hunter, which introduces the dystopian world run by the Circle. In the utopia created by the highly exclusive and secret Circle, life appears to be perfect now that they’ve gotten rid of the...

Drawing with Whitman by Kristin McGlothlin is a coming of age children's story, and book one in the Sourland Mountain Series. Catalynd “Cat” Jewett Hamilton has her world turned upside down when a car accident forces her (and two broken, casted legs) into a wheelchair,...

Watch out for the puns! In the tradition of the “Diary of” books comes this one-of-a-kind Diary of a Real Kid: The Stranger Than Weird Story of How Billy Smudge Turned into a Goat by J. Garden Macdonald. When Billy Smudge and his best friend,...