Radical Ray: No Greater Love by Bobbi Chegwyn is about a young boy whose ordinary childhood is suddenly upended by family tragedy. The story opens with warmth and humor as Ray spends time with his mother, Shirl, and his grandmother, Leila, in their lively Sydney...

The Book of Roisins by Tracy Schuldt Helixon follows Roisin, a sixth-grader who is exhausted by the constant cycle of being the new girl at her school due to her father's Army career. Stuck in a new Wisconsin town with a name that everyone mangles...

The Broken Fence by James J. Antonio follows a young boy named Mark. Every weekend, he goes to his grandparents’ horse farm, where a broken fence leads to a series of life-changing events. Mark gets used to the routine of helping his grandfather care for...

Footprints in the Snow by Alison Bellringer is a children’s adventure that follows a boy named Mack and his friend, Katrina. They decide to take a shortcut through the forest after leaving a friend’s party. What a big mistake. They encounter a mountain lion that...

In Anne Ward Crocker's Close Friends' Cathedral Adventure, a young toad named Peat returns home from a forbidden swim to news that the woodland ravine where his family lives is about to be destroyed. When workers begin uprooting the forest, Peat makes an unexpected choice:...

Bella’s Tales of History: Remember the Ladies by Deb Evans is centered on Bella, a golden retriever, and her curious puppies as they explore the often-overlooked contributions of women during the American Revolution. The story begins with the puppies questioning why girls cannot take part...

When the Sky Turned to Dust by Catherine Matthias is an engrossing MG novel that takes the reader into the life of a family fighting to survive the dust storms affecting their home in Kansas. It follows 12-year-old Caroline, who, along with her 9-year-old brother, tries...

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...

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...

Tracy Borgmeyer wraps up the action-packed middle-grade Science Girl Extraordinaire series with Halley Harper: Race to Outer Space. At just thirteen, Halley Harper has proven herself to be an extraordinary inventor, her latest invention being the communication laser booster. However, when testing the laser booster...