Me and the Missouri Moon by Nancy Stewart follows Scarlet Burnes, who is caught in a moral dilemma after her father hits a cyclist named Malcolm with their car and leaves the scene. Fearing the consequences due to his criminal past, Scarlet's father pressures her...

Children’s books are incredibly powerful vehicles of social messaging. When a book is written for a younger audience, it not only has the opportunity to teach and create space for challenging conversations among children but for their parents and caretakers as well. In My...

My Pancreas Needs Glasses is a children’s picture book written and illustrated by Rhonda Goodall. It tells the story of Zach and his younger brother, Julian, who has Type 1 Diabetes. Zach admires Julian for taking care of his health and being brave by taking...

Martha May McKenzie and The Magic Cake Big Mistake! by Brian Starr is a gloriously spectacular story of magic and unpredictability. It all starts when Martha plans to tell her grandchildren that she is a witch by presenting them with a particularly delicious but strange...

My Pet Roach Ted is a brilliant and hilarious tale written and illustrated by Timothy Swiss. As his cousin Bill sleeps during a sleepover with Barn Owl Bard (Bob), six hairy legs climb up and crawl across Bill's bed in the middle of the night....

Mickie McKinney, Boy Detective: Connections in Chemistry by R.L. Fink is the story of Mickie, a sixth-grader who also happens to be a private detective. Jamie Burns, Mickie’s friend and a science genius, is sent as a substitute when their chemistry teacher leaves early on...

Mischievous Molly Discovers Her Gift is a children's book written by Nancy Hallowell and Afsoon Kelly, and illustrated by Lauren Zurcher. Always in trouble, Molly refuses to eat her vegetables, never closes the front door behind her, and always tracks mud through the house. She...

Middle School Pandemonium by Pamela Riley is a middle-grade story that follows the journey of Casey Murphy, an eleven-year-old Floridan boy. Things begin to go wrong for him in 2020 with a canceled trip to Brazil, but little does he know at this point that...

Maddie's Ghost by Carol Fisher Saller is a mystery novel that navigates two timelines: one set in the present day and the other in the 1930s. The protagonist, Lainie Stanton, is called for a TV interview when questions about her great-grandmother Madeleine's public execution threaten...

Madison Kleigh and the Onyx Stone is a young adult novel by Jeffrey David Montanye. Twelve-year-old Madison Kleigh watches as her father Michael's ship launches him and the crew from NASA to Mars. A curious package arrives in the post many months later. Madison believes...