Best Birthday Ever is the second book in the Axolotl Agency series. It is written by Adrienne Christin and illustrated by Kat Powell. Axolotl friends Amethyst, Aqua, Onyx, Pearl, and Jade run the Axolotl Agency, which solves mysteries in and around Fin Lake and helps...

Spooky Ghost Stories and Deliciously Haunted Adventures by J.J. Westway is a collection of 10 spooky tales, full of thrills and scares, illustrated by Yasmin Barzegar. In Scary Christmas, Melody and Major decide they don’t want to go with their parents to church on Christmas...

Easy-Peasy Birthday Cake That Even Little Ones Can Make by Tatiana Bell is a fun children’s picture book. It follows the activities of three kids who decide to make their mom's special day a memorable one. The three kids, without any experience, enter the kitchen...

Getting Ready for a Tornado by Fei Zheng-Ward is a children’s book that talks about tornadoes and how children can stay safe if one appears. It explains that tornadoes are spinning windstorms that look like funnels reaching down from the sky. Some tornadoes are thin...

Reading Shmeading Stinkin' Reading by Nat Gibson is about Benji, a little boy who loves stories but struggles to read them on his own. For children with dyslexia, learning can often be discouraging, and their confidence may quickly begin to decline. Benji understands this feeling...

Kindled Embers by K.C. Simos is an emotional rollercoaster of a tale. Eliza, a twelve-year-old maidservant in King Christian VIII’s palace, experiences a bittersweet feeling when her guardian, Jonas, returns from the war missing a leg. He sacrificed himself to save the king’s life, but...

The Spirits of '76 by T. W. Fitzhugh is the first book in the Spirits of the Revolution series. The Battle of Brooklyn, the largest battle in the American Revolutionary War, is drawing near. Just 11 years old, Emmeline is fed up with other people...

Where Our Stories Meet by Alizae Kurtzig and Thando Maluleke tells the story of two children living on opposite sides of the world whose lives gradually connect through curiosity and friendship. Daisy lives in San Francisco, where rainy mornings, school experiments, and time with family...

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...