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...

Kirby's Dilemma is a delightful, spine-chilling story. Iris Iglarsh's first middle-grade novel follows an eleven-year-old boy who becomes friends with a ghost. When Michael Benton was five years old, he almost drowned and saw a ghost for the first time. After six years, Michael still...

Michael and Hannah and the Magical Money Tree is a children’s book by Anthony C. Delauney. Michael and Hannah are excited about the spring fair and a trip with some neighborhood friends to see the money tree. When they arrive, they see the tree leaves...

Poppy and Puff the Pandas Share Their Bamboos: A Story About Division by Two by Fynn Sor is an engaging story about mother and son pandas sharing their bamboo meal. Poppy the Panda wakes up and finds her son, Puff, missing. Soon she finds him...

Attractive artwork accentuates an entertaining story with an important message in Laban Learns Mindful Breathing by Sara Taher. Laban is an adorable kitty that has just moved into a new home. As you might expect, a new residence offers many opportunities for a curious young...

In Ozzy Penguin Gets Frustrated by S.A. Schneider we are introduced to a small family of penguins. Ozzy was woken up and told that he needed to get ready for school. The day started fine until he told his father that he could put his...

The Beauty of Us All: Celebrating the Diversity of the World by Chandele Morris, illustrated by Marissa Napolitano, is an ebullient, vibrant, unapologetic homage to the beauty that comes only from being uniquely ourselves – just precisely the way we were made to be. Its...

Lilly and May Learn Why Mom and Dad Work by Anthony C. Delauney shows that it's sad to watch Mom and Dad leave for work every day. Sisters Lilly and May don’t understand why they have to work. They’d much rather Mom and Dad stayed...

Losing a loved one is never easy; loss-induced grief is inevitable no matter how old you are. But children have an even harder time dealing with grief as they are new to the concept. A Million Little Stars by Amanda Loraine Lynch, Candice Davis, and...

Do Butterflies Sleep? by Janice Garden Macdonald is a charming picture book that pre-readers and emerging readers will fall in love with. The storyline details an eventful day in the life of an active butterfly from morning to night, and the tale ends by answering...