A modern classic in the making reminiscent of the Penderwicks series, The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street is about the connections we make and the unexpected turns life can take. The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on...
Juvenile fiction
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Author:Glaser, Karina YanSummary: - Author:Jenkins, Jerry B., LaHaye, Tim F.Summary:
Readers will see the Rapture and Tribulation through the eyes of four kids who have been left behind. Each of the four kids soon discovers friends and family members missing. Will they be able to learn the truth behind the...
- Author:Mulder, MichelleSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Chloë left her whole life back in Montreal, including her mom and her best friend. Now she's stuck in Victoria with her dad and her estranged grandfather, Uli, who recently had a stroke. When Chloë agrees to...
- Author:Bush, MaureenSummary:
It's Halloween, and Josh and Maddy are all ready to go out trick-or-treating. But the arrival of their otter-people friends with an urgent message from Keeper the Giant changes everything.
Returning to the magical world, Josh and...
- Author:Hunter, ErinSummary:
As a mysterious poison begins to affect more animals, Chase struggles to determine where her loyalties lie. And down on the plains, Prance prays that the Great Spirit will send Thorn a solution to the shadowy menace.
- Author:Wishingrad, AlysaSummary:
With little control over his future, Beau is kept locked away until he meets a girl who shows him the secrets his father has kept hidden. For the first time, Beau begins to question everything he's ever been told and sets off in...
- Author:Carle, EricSummary:
A collection of four books by Eric Carle. Includes "The very hungry caterpillar," "The grouchy ladybug," "The very busy spider," and "Walter the baker." Grades K-3. 1979.
- Author:Buckley, MichaelSummary:
When a virus infects Arlington, Virginia, home of NERDS headquarters, transforming victims into criminal masterminds, it is up to Flinch to stop its spread by miniaturizing himself and entering the head of the Villain Virus's creator,...
- Author:Daigneault, Claude, Jalette, JocelynSummary:
Ousted from their beds by the sweltering heat, Pyro and Gluco decide to head down by the lakeside to sleep under the stars instead. But as Pyro snores the night away while Glucosina dreams of her prince charming, an unexpected visitor...
- Author:Schwartz, Roslyn, Schwartz, RoslynSummary:
From the creator of the beloved Mole Sisters series comes an irresistible tale about two ravenous rodents, wanted for snacking on too many strawberries, daisies, tulips, and other vegetation. And after these rodents chomp and chew all...
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
'I am going to be cremated. I want you to take my ashes out alone on the Frog, out to sea alone, and leave me there. Take me to where you can't see land and scatter my ashes there on the water '' 14-year-old David Alspeth is the owner...
- Author:Lofting, HughSummary:
The good Doctor Dolittle, accompanied by his devoted animal friends, sets sail once again, to learn the secret of the Shellfish language and to teach his young protégé all there is to know about animals and their languages.
- Author:Grant, Shauntay, Banks, Erin BennettSummary:
It's Halloween and Amayah doens't have a costume to wear to school. She dressed as a ghost for the last three years in a row, witches are overdone, and fairies are not her style. She wants to be something different, something creative,...
- Author:Tomova, VeselinaSummary:
In the middle of the twentieth century, in the middle of Eastern Europe, a young girl dreams of adventures. One day, a huge wall appears that separates East from West, and dreamer from dreams. No ladder is tall enough, no tunnel deep...
- Author:Carman, PatrickSummary:
The Walnut Cup, the only American stop on the World Squirrel Soccer League tour, is taking place in Elliot's park, but when the game ball, a perfectly round walnut, goes missing it is up to Elliot and his friends to find it.
- Author:Harper, MaikaSummary:
When the earth was new, words had the power to breathe life into the world. But when creating animals from breath, sometimes one does not get everything right on the first try! Based on a traditional Inuit story passed forward orally...
- Author:Bradley, Kimberly BrubakerSummary:
Like the classic heroines of Sarah, Plain and Tall and Little Women, Ada conquers the homefront as her World War II journey continues in this sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning The War that Saved My Life When Ada's clubfoot is...
- Author:Bradley, Kimberly BrubakerSummary:
*2016 Newbery Honor book
*Winner of the 2016 Schneider Family Book AwardThis New York Times bestseller is an exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2. For fans of Counting by 7s....
- Author:Farmer, NancySummary:
Baby Ruva lives with her giraffe family in a beautiful jungle. One sad day she is kidnapped and taken across the ocean to a horrible zoo. Thanks to four wise and magical friends she has met along the way, the baby giraffe is managing to...
- Author:Base, GraemeSummary:
Graeme Base takes young readers on an exhilarating journey of discovery from the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of outback Australia. The animals come together to drink...
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