In A Proper Grown-Up by Sejal Sharma, we are introduced to Joy, a little girl who is convinced that she’s a grown-up. She does everything an adult does from going to work, doing her taxes and drinking coffee before a long day. It’s hard but,...

Everyone is different and that’s a good thing as children learn in Melanie Hawkins's book I’m Basically A Unicorn. In the pages, we see children who are unique and special. Whether it’s a little girl with curly red hair or a little boy born with...

Willow Paradise by Robert E. Friedle is a 4th to 6th-grade children’s story. Life now is so very different from life then. In 1965, we didn’t have computers, phones, tablets or video games. We had to use what we were born with – our imaginations...

Urban Playground: What Kids Say about Living in San Francisco by Katie Burke is a non-fiction book about fifty children ages five to nine who are growing up in San Francisco. For the first five children, the author asked questions about the makeup of their...

The Angry Octopus by Lori Lite is, as you might have guessed from the title, the story about an octopus who becomes angry when some lobsters make a mess of his garden which he had decorated with shells and rocks. But, lucky for him and...

Brianna L. Devore's 12 Women In Media is an engaging and informative book that will give readers information about 12 women who made a difference to the world of media with their contributions. Whether it was Gwen Ifill, Samantha Bee, Oprah Winfrey, Helen Thomas, Donna...

Ronan preferred his apartment home to his Granma's big old house. His Mama and Dada had insisted they go and live in Granma's home till his vacation was over and Granma got better. His Mama had told him endless stories about how she and her...

Johnny Appleseed and the Apple Life Cycle is written by Rich Linville. Follow John Chapman through his adventurous life as he travels from place to place with his apple seeds. Even though he plants the seeds to grow apple trees, Chapman has another more fundamental...

Immigrants from all countries come to realize their dreams beneath the American stars. The American Dream is a grand dream and Our American Dream by Fiona McEntee shows young readers the dreams everyone shares in the United States of America. Aya, a Syrian girl, came...

Melanie had a big nose. Melanie headed off to school and all the time as she walked she dreamed of having a button nose, just like Maria, Meemo, and Zeego. Everyone in Melanie's family had big noses, but she had the biggest of them all....