Children & Young Adult

THE BABY IS BACK! Dav Pilkey's pint-sized powerhouse returns for another amazing adventure!George and Harold (the co-stars of the enormously popular Captain Underpants series) are in big trouble again! Their mean principal, Mr. Krupp, has had it with...

From Walter Dean Myers comes a powerful and timely novel about the heroics and horror of war---a gripping companion to FALLEN ANGELS.Robin Birdy Perry, a new army recruit from Harlem, isn't quite sure why he joined the army, but he's sure where he's...

From the award-winning duo of Jennifer and Matthew Holm comes the third book in the bestselling Sunny series, Sunny Rolls the Dice -- full of heart, laughs, and adventure!Too cool for school . . . or the least groovy girl in the grade?Sunny's just made...

This classically illustrated picture book shows a sun-drenched slice of life for a family in the Southern countryside, inspired by the folk opera Porgy and Bess. A black family soaks up the sun, splashing in the pond, baking apple pie, and raising their...

The Bicycle Man lends bikes to the neighborhood kids for free, and Lawrence and Brady ride them all summer long. But when a new kid takes advantage of the Bicycle Man, Lawrence and Brady discover that there's one thing that the Man likes more than bikes:...

Meet Summer Jackson, a smart, irresistible character who will appeal to to any kid who has ever wanted to skip straight to adulthood because it seems like SO much more fun.Summer is fairly certain she's ready to be a grown-up--right now. She wants to...

A mermaid offers a young girl a magical escape in this lushly told and luminously illustrated Coretta Scott King Honor-winning picture book. Sukey's new step-pa is a mean, bossy man she calls "Mister Hard-Times." He makes her work in his garden all day...

Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can't get: to make the local baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War.When Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who...

The inspirational true story of the first African American to play college basketball in the deeply segregated Southeastern Conference--a powerful moment in Black history. Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered...

Starred reviews hail Streetcar to Justice as a book that belongs in any civil rights library collection (Publishers Weekly) and completely fascinating and unique" (Kirkus). An ALA Notable Book and winner of a Septima Clark Book Award from the National...

A successful teen drug dealer is forced to reexamine it all in this riveting novel, now in trade paperback with a new cover, from the author of Snitch. Ty Johnson knows survival. The supply game's in his blood. And now that he's taken over his pop's...