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Co-Authors / Illustrators
- Anna Shepeta
Age Range
10+
Release Date
February 06, 2024
A forceful, passionate, and uplifting collection of poems by women and girls that is guaranteed to inspire, delight, and empower. From well-loved poets—including Maya Angelou, Wendy Cope, Lucille Clifton, and Christina Rossetti — to newer voices—such as Amanda Gorman, Yrsa-Daley Ward, and Amineh Abou Kerech —...
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Co-Authors / Illustrators
- Michelle Bailat-Jones
Age Range
8+
Release Date
October 08, 2024
Winner of the grand prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival! Kathleen Karr's classic American story of grit, friendship, and turkeys—finally reimagined as a sensational graphic novel. Missouri 1860: Simon Green is a bad student. His mother is dead and his father has...
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Author(s)
Co-Authors / Illustrators
- Astronym
Genre(s)
Age Range
9+
Release Date
September 10, 2024
Benjamin Carver III, aka Mr. Smarty Pants, is basically a kid genius, comes from a lineage of Black inventors, and his family owns the local peanut factory, Carver Nuts. One minor problem—he's extremely allergic to peanuts! So he invents tech solutions for his allergy problems. ...
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Before Ma became the most powerful witch in Brooklyn…before Ma met a boy named Jaxon who helped her deliver three baby dragons to the realm of magic…long before Ma ended the war and vanquished the Scourge by choosing exile…she was just a curious, determined girl living on the South...
179 0
Author(s)
Age Range
8+
Release Date
May 06, 2024
The summer before middle school is a time of anxiety and change. A pitch-perfect novel in verse about one girl’s wish to simultaneously break free and to belong. In the summer before her first year of middle school, word-chanting, rope-skipping Phee skips her way to...
192 0
Author(s)
Co-Authors / Illustrators
- Anisa Mohammad
Age Range
8+
Release Date
April 09, 2024
Yusuf is like any other 10-year-old boy living an ordinary life with his parents. He likes nothing more than spending time with his best friend Jack. Eight years after Yusuf’s one and only trip to see his grandfather, the Ayouch family excitedly prepares to welcome Grandpa to England, at...
198 0
Author(s)
Co-Authors / Illustrators
- Lucy Rogers
Age Range
8+
Release Date
May 07, 2024
Ellie is ready to have the best summer ever. She's especially excited to draw under her favorite tree and hang out with her big brother, Ben. But all Ben seems to care about is impressing the new lip-glossy neighbor, Sara. And all Sara seems to care...
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Author(s)
Genre(s)
Age Range
10+
Release Date
November 19, 2024
A heartwarming and gently humorous middle-grade novel about complicated family dynamics, the impact of dementia – and a passion for ice cream. Twelve-year-old Luca Verani has big plans for his future. But when his aunt announces she's selling the family's Glasgow ice cream café and his...
167 0
Author(s)
Co-Authors / Illustrators
- Angelique Smelt
Genre(s)
Age Range
8+
Release Date
July 15, 2024
When Sheri shakes a mysterious-looking snow globe she discovers in a charity shop, her whole world is turned upside down when she suddenly finds herself inside it, along with her best friend, Shawn. Once in this strange new realm, she embarks on a dangerous journey to rescue a spellbound...
309 0
Pixies play pranks. That’s what we do. Except my latest trick got me banished to the human realm, with that grumpy angel Gabe as my guardian. While Gabe is determined to stop me from putting a wing out of line, I discover he has more...
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It’s just innocent fun. That’s what twelve-year-old Icarus ‘Icky’ Somers reminded himself as he hacked a high-tech VR machine designed to help therapy patients confront their deepest fears. In the immersive virtual worlds he created for himself, Icky was king, star athlete, superhero, or whatever else he...
196 0
The Florida wetlands are hardly an ideal vacation spot for anyone. Especially the young Synergist Knight, Camela Rider, and her Master Dragon, Krysta Valanche. Stuck on Nocturn babysitting duty and being cramped into a less-than-favorable camper with below-average amenities is not how the battle-starved Camela wants to spend her...
518 0
Author(s)
Age Range
10+
Release Date
May 07, 2024
Financial literacy made fun. An action-packed and funny story about the rise and fall of a bank set up by school friends. This is the hilarious story of a group of friends who set up a bank to lend money to their schoolmates. They...
289 0
Author(s)
Age Range
8+
Release Date
August 13, 2024
What if you had a weapon-a knife that had the power to heal-as long as it was never used in anger? What if this knife had been handed down for generations in your family, but because of you, it has now been taken? What if you were only twelve...
151 0
With just a pencil stroke she can create magical creatures like furry-amphibians, rock giants, and gelatinous blobs. But these creatures were supposed to stay fictional-not come to life and disrupt everything. Twelve-year-old Rose uses the creation of imaginary worlds to escape from her parents' nasty...
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