By Eliza Wheeler Nancy Paulsen Books, $16.99, 32 pages Miss Maple lives in a maple tree, and her life’s work is to find and save orphan seeds lost during the spring planting season. She begins in August, collecting orphan seeds …
By Christina Baker Kline William Morrow Paperbacks, $14.99, 304 pages Molly is seventeen and has spent far too much of her short life in foster homes – many of them. When she is caught stealing a book from the library, …
By Nicola Davies, Neal Layton (illustrator) Candlewick, $14.99, 64 pages Flip on the TV almost any time of the day or night, and one can find shows about killing in a wide variety of ways. If the channel chosen happens …
By J. Patrick Lewis, Anna Raff (llustrator) Candlewick, $15.99, 40 pages Holidays have been designated for all kinds of things and some are pretty interesting. Did you know there is a National Sloth Day or International Cephalopod Awareness Day or …
By Shirin Yim Bridges, Maria Monescillo (illustrator) Harcourt Children’s Books, $16.99, 32 pages Mary Wrightly is a very polite young lady. She always says polite words such as “please” and “thank you so much” in a very polite and quiet …
By Ann Bonwill, Stephen Gammell (illustrator) Holiday House, $16.95, 32 pages The Frazzles are a terribly forgetful family. They forget to wear coats when it’s cold and forget to use sunscreen when it’s sunny. When it’s time for school, the …
By Chris Crutcher Greenwillow Books, $17.99, 304 pages Paulie Bomb has a pretty sweet life, except for his philandering father, weak mother, and the best girlfriend in the world who he’s just lost through unbelievable stupidity. But he has a …
By Will Hobbs HarperCollins, $16.99, 224 pages Nick Thrasher, a fifteen-year-old Inuit, hunts for a caribou to feed his family, especially for the organ meat for his grandfather Jonah, who is dying from cancer. After Nick butchers his kill, he …
By Sarah Anderson Storey Publishing, LLC, $27.50, 256 pages Knitting has had quite an extraordinary resurgence in the last several years. There is something so comforting about creating something beautiful with one’s own hands. But in order to knit, one …
By Laurel Snyder, Catia Chien (illustrator) Schwartz & Wade, $17.99, 40 pages Ima is a young Jewish girl, living in the Pharoah’s Egypt long ago. Her family and all the other Jewish families live in slavery. Ima, though a little girl, has …
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 Betsy Snyder Random House Children’s, $9.99, 32 pages There are few books that will absolutely delight every reader – no matter how young or how old – no matter if male or female – no matter whether one loves poetry or …
By Wendy Anderson Halperin Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 40 pages Many people around the world and through time have had ideas about how peace might be achieved. Some were incredibly famous people, some were powerful, some were ordinary, some were …
By Maggie Smith Knopf BYR, $15.99, 32 pages Penelope Pig is planning a party – a party of plentiful proportions. She has put pen to paper to pull pigs from the town with perfect party invitations. Pigs from all around the hamlet …
By Rebecca Rupp Candlewick Press, $15.99, 256 pages Everybody loved Eli, and Danny grew up in the vast shadow Eli cast, but he didn’t mind. He loved Eli too. And Danny remembered Eli’s promise to come back. But he didn’t Instead, he died, blown up …
