Children & Young Adult

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...

Sun, a sporty boy, reconnects with his artistic side in this gorgeous, joyful celebration of creativity that offers an expanded and appealing model for boyhood. Sun loves everything about playing soccer: the cheers, the competition, the winning. But he...

Through howling snowstorms and over treacherous sheets of ice, Matthew Henson and Robert Peary raced against other explorers and death itself to be the first to reach the North Pole. After six expeditions and eighteen years, they finally planted the...

After the overwhelming success of the INYTK coloring books, The ABC's of Black Girl Magic and The ABC's of a Young King's Greatness, INYTK...#You Matter was born. This book is a timely celebration of our children with positive affirmations from A-Z! Read...