Train, Train, Go Away! by Terri Kelley is the story of a little girl who lives near train tracks. She tells readers about the lives of many people who live near train tracks and how bad it is to live there because there is so...

Katie Dude liked to talk to her grandma because she could understand Grandma better than she could understand her parents and other adults. Even though her grandma had trouble falling around, she still told fun and interesting stories to Katie. In her book Traveling with...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a bee? In this cute and interesting book, Georgie Bee tells the story from a bee’s point of view. Sometimes it's easy to think that bees live useless and uneventful lives, but when we...

The Heron Chronicles is a beautifully written and illustrated children’s book by Judy Link Cuddehe. It tells the story of heron sisters who couldn’t be more different from each other. Halley longs for adventure and quickly grows bored with life in the nest, but her...

Who is Marcus Garvey? Some people who have studied civil rights would know. Others who are from Jamaica would also know. If you were around in the 1920s and ‘30s, there’s a strong chance you would have heard of Mr. Garvey. I had no idea...

Have you ever moved to a new place and felt all alone because you had no friends? That’s what this beautiful book is about. This young girl was not only new with no friends, she couldn’t speak the language of those in her new hometown....

The Gross Gang written by Christine Larsen is about Larsen’s fascination with words that can be classified as "odd" or “extinct.” The book introduces us to many of these words (some of which I’ve never heard before) in the form of various poems. Her poems...

The Big, Bad Wolf Really Isn't so Big and Bad by Sara Barnard is an educational book about the wolves of America. Cocoa the wolf will guide you through the book and show a way to get all the answers to your questions. The book is...

The Golden Cheese by Maria Ellis is a story of a little mouse who wants to get a golden cheese that will help him live in a palatial house with lots of money and respect from others. That is his biggest dream. But he is...

The City Kittens and the Old House Cat is a story written with a Christmas backdrop. Nyda, the cat, is happy in the family where she is living and she has settled into a comfortable routine. Her life changes when the eldest daughter of the...