Children & Young Adult

This acclaimed picture book biography is a perfect introduction to the great Muhammad Ali. Reviewers praised this book as powerful, action-filled, and dramatic.New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers explores Muhammad Ali's life and recounts...

This beautiful hardback treasury contains the best-loved tales of Brother's Grimm, accompanied by wonderful full-colour illustrations. Originally entitled Children's and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and...

An award-winning, beautiful picture book--poetry and art exploring issues of African American identity. A favorite book to share in schools and homes.Included in Brightly's list of recommended diverse poetry picture books for kids, and a Coretta Scott...

This brilliant memoir-in-verse tells the moving story of how a nation learned to celebrate a hero. Through years of protests and petition, Kathlyn's story highlights the foot soldiers who fought to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national...

The PJs are dispatched to Africa to provide humanitarian relief after massive flooding along the Nile. When their efforts are thwarted by local War Lords, the PJs must go on the offensive to bring food and medical attention to the local people. See a...

Felicia Robinson smacks her rival across the face with the loudest of slaps. Her victim, a girl twice Felicia's height and weight, helplessly staggers back."That's what happens to anybody who disses me!" says Felicia.Felicia balls her fists as she...

When Canada went to war with Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbour, Canadians of Japanese descent were declared Enemy Aliens. Without recourse of any kind, they were forced to leave their homes along with the British Columbia coast, their...

Davanté Williams senses his mother slipping away. His skin prickles as the shadows of loneliness threaten. He cannot lose her now. He is too young. Barely seventeen. An almost-man.Mother moves on, leaving Davanté to struggle with grief. He shuffles...

This is the fictionalized story of Yula, a character inspired by a real girl Sharon Jennings met in her visits to the Hope Development Centre in Kenya. When four-year-old Yula is discovered by the orphanage director - Mum - and introduced to a caring...

ThisCaldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King Honor, and New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book picture book biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. brings his life and the profound nature of his message to young children through his own...

Celebrate 30 influential Latinas/Latinos/Latinxs in U.S. history with Nuestra América, a fully-illustrated anthology from the Smithsonian Latino Center. Nuestra América highlights the inspiring stories of thirty Latina/o/xs throughout history and their...