Children & Young Adult

The first book of the award-winning and bestselling Sugar Plum Ballerinas series by Whoopi Goldberg--now featuring brand-new illustrations! At the Nutcracker School of Ballet in Harlem, young dancers learn to chassé, plié, and jeté with their Sugar Plum...

Sixteen-year-old Danny Vo is enmeshed in two worlds--his Houston high school and his Vietnamese home life. He's finally caught the eye of beautiful blond Tiffany Marie, only to find out that her brother is a white supremacist. And his life gets even more...

From the award-winning author of Break and Teeth comes a raw and honest exploration of complicated identities in a novel about a girl living on the fringe of every fringe group in her small town. Etta is tired of dealing with all of the labels and...

Just in time for the major motion picture release, discover everything you wanted to know about Jackie Robinson!To tie- in with the April 2013 release of the movie 42, the life story of Jackie Robinson, this full-color comprehensive biography will...

Get to know the legendary Harlem Globetrotters in this slam-dunk Level 3 Ready-to-Read that will have everyone cheering! Did you know that the Harlem Globetrotters have played on every continent in the world (except Antarctica)? Or that they hold more...

Xander discovers a new magical creature - millions of them, actually! In this adventure, a swarm of insects threatens the Montgomery Orchard and twelve-year-old Xander's fruitful summer job. Luckily, the so-called bugs aren't actually bugs. Unluckily,...

Jacob is cursed after insulting a wicked fairy and the outlandish spell she casts on him will change his life forever. Dwarf Nose is a classic fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff, rich with unforgettable characters and suspenseful turns. Jacob's arduous tasks...

Remy has just been released from juvenile detention and is back in his old neighborhood. He went away because he severely assaulted a guy who insulted his girlfriend--Asia. As a white boy dating an immigrant, Remy has had to take a lot of the inbred...

Historical-fiction based on the young life of Elizabeth Libba Cotten, the noted African American folksinger, who wrote the famous song Freight Train when she was just eleven years old. Elizabeth's Song is the true-life story of Elizabeth (Libba) Cotten,...

In this electric and heartfelt follow-up to Newbery Medal winner The Crossover, soccer, family, love, and friendship take center stage as twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries...

Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education Junior Library Guild SelectionEvery Sunday night a young girl and her grandmother go on an imaginary shopping trip in this delightful picture book.Now in paperback!Sunday nights are...

Jane Addams Children's Book Award; Starred Review; Starred Review; Best Children's Books of the Year: Outstanding Merit; Notable Books for a Global Society; Choices; Green Earth Book Award, Children's Nonfiction; Notable Children's Book; Orbis Pictus...

In this touching debut middle grade novel, a girl with hearing loss and a boy adjusting to life in a new country connect through their love of comics and get entangled in their own fantastical adventure. Twelve-year-old Etta Johnson has Loud Days where...

It's 1942: Tomi Itano, 12, is a second-generation Japanese American who lives in California with her family on their strawberry farm. Although her parents came from Japan and her grandparents still live there, Tomi considers herself an American. She...

Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not a guarantee. Now in paperback.   Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead...