Children & Young Adult

What do you do when an octopus captures Grandma? Put on your superhero cape and rescue her! This clever picture book tells two stories in one, from award-winning Afro-Latino artist Eric Velasquez. The octopus Grandma is cooking has grown to titanic...

A refreshingly funny and blisteringly unsentimental coming-of-age memoir. -John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All The Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars In Akilah Hughes's world, family--and life--are often complicated, but...

The "oil patch" of West Texas, also known as the Permian Basin, is rich in history and tradition. In Odessa, Texas, the West Texas sky is big, the people are friendly, and their "can-do" spirit runs as deep as the oil wells that dot the land. In O is for...

In this picture book companion to the bestseller A Long Walk to Water, a young South Sudanese girl goes on a journey that requires determination, persistence, and compassion. Young Nya takes little sister Akeer along on the two-hour walk to fetch water...

Family and freedom are intertwined in this haunting work of historical fiction about a young girl grappling with her past, present, and future in the aftermath of the Civil War. It is 1864. The Civil War is at an end, but for thirteen-year-old Eulinda,...

Se celebran 30 latinas y latinos influyentes en la historia estadounidense con Nuestra América, una antología completamente ilustrada del Centro Latino Smithsonian.Nuestra América resalta las historias inspiradoras de treinta latinas y latinos a lo largo...

Through this pitch-perfect rom-com, Kristina Forest explores the legacy of family and what it means to be young and full of artistic passion. I was utterly charmed from start to finish. --Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know Now That I've Found...

Through this pitch-perfect rom-com, Kristina Forest explores the legacy of family and what it means to be young and full of artistic passion. I was utterly charmed from start to finish. --Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know Now That I've Found...

Desmond Cole goes on a field trip to the museum in the ninth book of the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series! Museums are great places to see really old stuff. The Kersville Museum has old paintings, old statues, and even old mummies that come with old...

Desmond Cole goes on a field trip to the museum in the ninth book of the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series! Museums are great places to see really old stuff. The Kersville Museum has old paintings, old statues, and even old mummies that come with old...

When tragedy strikes, Deo's love of soccer is all he has left. Can he use that gift to find hope once more? Just down the road from their families, Deo and his friends play soccer in the dusty fields of Zimbabwe, cheered on by Deo's older brother,...

In this second novel in Sharon M. Draper's Jericho Trilogy and Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Jericho and November are locked together in pain from the past and fear for the future, and it feels as though there's no way to escape either. When November...