By Elly MacKay Running Press Kids, $16.95, 32 pages This is a magical, serendipitous story of a little boy who holds a seed and makes a wish before he plants it in the ground. What is the wish? As you read this …
Brian Biggs, Simon Abbott (illustrator) HarperCollins, $16.99, 32 pages Henry has a new bike, and he is anxious to get out and ride around on his own. His mom says he can go, but he has to stay on their block. …
By Grace Gilman, Jacqueline Rogers (illustrator) HarperCollins, $16.99, 32 pages Emma is on the track team and she loves to run. Her dog Dixie loves to run, too. Dixie goes to Emma’s track meet, but Emma tells Dixie she must sit, stay, …
By Russell Hoban, Lillian Hoban (illustrator) HarperCollins, $16.99, 45 pages In this I Can Read Level 2 book, Frances is upset about her younger sister Gloria’s birthday the next day. Every part of the preparation makes Frances complain to Alice, her friend that no …
By Stephanie Spinner Knopf Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 48 pages In 1977, graduate student Irene Pepperberg bought a grey parrot. Pepperberg had long owned birds, and she felt they had true intelligence. She intended to prove it. She named her parrot …
By Lincoln Peirce Harper, $12.99, 224 pages Big Nate is back. When Nate discovers he forgot to bring his lunch, he cadges a fortune cookie from his friend Teddy. It says, “Today you will surpass all others.” Nate decides he will achieve …
By Karen Leggett Abouraya, Susan L. Roth (illustrator) Dial, $16.99, 32 pages Not long ago, many Egyptian people were angry and sad because they didn’t have the freedom to speak, they weren’t able to vote as they wanted to, or gather …
By Melissa Wiley and Sebastien Braun (illustrator) Random House Books for Young Readers, 3.99, 48 pages Suggested for children in grades one through three who are ready to read on their own, this Step 3 book about Fox and Crow is an …
By Patricia Polacco Putnam Juvenile, $17.99, 48 pages Lyla is the new kid at school, and she’s nervous. Luckily, there’s another new kid, and he introduces himself. Lyla and Jamie become instant friends. Jamie suggests to Lyla to get a cell phone …
By Barbara Elizabeth Walsh and Layne Johnson (illustrator) Calkins Creek $16.95 40 pages “There were no names on the crosses. No memory of who rested beneath the red poppies.” Moina Belle Michael, a school teacher from Georgia, was deeply saddened by …
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By Cece Bell Candlewick Press, $14.99, 56 pages Rabbit has invited Robot to come over for a sleepover. Rabbit has a list of things they will do. When Robot arrives, Rabbit tells Robot what they will do. When Rabbit tells Robot one …
By Geronimo Stilton Scholastic Books, $14.99, 320 pages Geronimo Stilton is a mouse who runs the most “famouse” newspaper on Mouse Island, the Rodent’s Gazette. This is the fourth book in the Kingdom of Fantasy series. As in the other books, in …
By Jacqueline Davies Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, $15.99, 192 pages Jessie and Evan travel with their mother (who they strangely think of as Mrs. Treski) to see their grandmother in the hospital after a house fire and a bad fall. …
By Tim Green HarperCollins, $16.99, 320 pages Trevor is a star. No, really, a movie star. He’s thirteen years old and has a dressing room trailer, a movie-star mother and big-shot dad, and he lives in a mansion in Bel …
By Michael Morpurgo, Michael Foreman (illustrator) HarperCollins, $16.99, 208 pages Orphan Johnny Trott works as a bell-boy at the Savoy Hotel. Opera singer Countess Kandinsky stays at the hotel for three months with her cat Kaspar. Johnny takes care of the …
