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...

Dancing enables children to have better control of their bodies and express themselves more freely, but sometimes they may feel exposed and be afraid of being judged. That is why it is necessary to teach them to have self-confidence. Dancing Deepa by Suchi Sairam focuses...

Daddy is Cool Like That by Mary McMahon and Jennifer Bucciero Boyles is a children’s picture book that depicts a young family who has recently had their father diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Partly inspired by Boyles's familial journey with the disease, it shows other...

Daily Bread by Antoinette Truglio Martin is a children's chapter book that follows the story of young Sicilian-American Liboria “Lily” Taglia. Lily, her older sister Margaret, and the rest of their working-class family are bound by the mutual respect each has for their roles and...

Death of a Wallaby is the second book in The Wobbly Wallaby series written by Mike Skillicorn. Wally, Jake, and Peg are three starving wallabies that are running for their lives while being pursued by hungry dingoes. When the leader of the pack falls to...

Amie Borst created adventurous characters and a fun, action-packed novel in Doomy Prepper’s Complete Guide: How to Survive Fifth Grade and the Apocalypse. Doomy Prepper is a logical fifth-grader, whose family is actively prepared for any crisis, disaster, or the apocalypse. He has rules set...

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,...

Meet Devin and Evan, the twin brothers in the story Devin & Evan: Play Fortnite 'Til 11 by Whitney Raban, Ph.D. They shared a love of so many things and this did not end with gaming. They were both healthy boys who followed the sleep...

Do Bugs Wear Shoes & Other Silly Questions by Addie Broussard and Anthony Puttee is a wonderful and enlightening book that educates the young reader about bugs, their families, insect categories and their places in the world. This educational book has much more than silly...

Dilby R Dixon’s The Time Dreamer by Tony J. Perri takes us on a magical adventure through our imaginations. Dilby Dixon is an eleven-year-old just about to graduate from Elementary School and head off to Junior High. Dilby was once a non-entity among his schoolmates,...