Children & Young Adult

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and there is great racial inequality in the criminal justice system. Race and Policing in Modern America explores how the US criminal justice system perpetuates inequality, from the...

In this adaptation of a Native American folktale, Douglas Wood's storyteller flair and Leslie Baker's watercolor paintings animate the tale of how Rabbit made it to the moon. Rabbit has always dreamed of going to the moon, but try as he might, he simply...

"Quincredible gets literally everything right." -- Comics Beat Invulnerability is a pretty useless superpower if you've only got a one-hundred-pound frame to back it up. That's what Quinton West's life became when he went from "small guy who got beat up"...

Ssh! Listen. What's that noise? What can we hear when we're really, really quiet? A toddler enjoys the range of sounds they hear as their busy day comes to an end, from the bustle and chat of dinner time, to the quiet hush of their father's voice at...

Ssh! Listen. What's that noise? What can we hear when we're really, really quiet? A toddler enjoys the range of sounds they hear as their busy day comes to an end, from the bustle and chat of dinner time, to the quiet hush of their father's voice at...

Darius Livingston is the starting running back for the seventh-grade football team, but he dreams of playing quarterback. When the team is forced to forfeit the rest of its season, Darius and his teammates get the chance to play with the eighth graders...

Darius Livingston is the starting running back for the seventh-grade football team, but he dreams of playing quarterback. When the team is forced to forfeit the rest of its season, Darius and his teammates get the chance to play with the eighth graders...

A lyrical, vibrant tribute to the amazing life and legacy of Pura Belpré, a lauded storyteller, librarian, and pioneer of bilingual storytimes Pura's abuela always has a cuento to share. She crows Qui-qui-ri-quí! for Señor Gallo, booms Borom, Borom for...

A School Library Journal Best Picture Book of 2019! Find out what happens when a boy who wants a puppy gets a truck instead in this simple and sweet picture book from Caldecott Honor winner Brian Pinkney. Vroom...beep...bark! Carter wants a puppy, but...

A 2020 Tayshas Reading List SelectionA 2020 Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Selection In Pumpkinheads, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award-winning artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this tender...

A 2020 Tayshas Reading List SelectionA 2020 Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Selection In Pumpkinheads, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award-winning artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this tender...

Through poignant, heart-warming images of an urban African-American family, children experience the comfort and encouragement this favorite psalm still offers -- the powerful message that they can rely on the Lord as they thread their way through the...