Award Winning Books

Amanda is a lonely little girl. Her mother means well, but doesn't have a lot of time for a 9-year-old and, after plenty of begging from Amanda, agrees to let her have a pet. Amanda chooses a ferret (and names her Peach) because ferrets...

A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self (Esquire). In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial...

Cassandra is hassled by her friends for sitting with the "wrong" kids at lunch. Jennifer gets harassed because she's overweight. Dwan's own family taunts her for not being "black enough." Yen is teased for being Chinese; Jamel for not smoking marijuana. Yet all find...

The terrorist threat has changed. The consequences haven't. When her fiancé, a CIA operative accused of treason, is killed overseas, intelligence analyst Maggie Jenkins smells cover-up and sets out to clear his name. Maggie disobeys direct orders and travels to Tbilisi, Georgia, to follow...

The subtle dance of friendship -- from holding your tongue to knowing what to say -- is played out in three sweetly humorous tales about an unlikely, likable pair. Catina wants to be a famous writer. Houndsley is an excellent cook. Catina thinks Houndsley...

WINNER 2013 Moonbeam Silver Book Award for Children's Poetry Welcome you who enter hereCome step right up and lend an earAnd in return, for just a whileI promise you shall laugh and smile...Kids (and grown-ups too ) are going to laugh, smile, snicker, chortle,...

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. In 1995 John Medeiros and his identical twin brother participated in a gene therapy study in which the HIV-positive twin was infused with billions of genes from the HIV-negative twin. This memoir details, from a firsthand perspective, a time in...

Longlisted for the Booker PrizeNamed a Most Anticipated Book of Summer 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, Time, and CrimeReadsNamed a Best Book of 2021 by Time An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying English...

three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the nation waits expectantly for the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties.Author: Erin Entrada KellyPublisher: Thorndike Striving ReaderPublished: 11/11/2020Pages: 335Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.76lbsSize:...

A poignant and timeless story of friendship that twines together moments in underexplored history; WWII and the Chernobyl disaster.Author: Anne BlankmanPublisher: Thorndike Striving ReaderPublished: 12/09/2020Pages: 537Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.90dISBN: 9781432884413Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.8Point Value: 12Interest Level:...

Join Carole Bumpus and her husband in Book Three of the Savoring the Olde Ways series as they take you on their first culinary trek through Italy, including regions of Lombardy, Tuscany, Compania, Apulia, and Lazio. Embrace unforgettable characters such as lovely guides Lisa...

Liam is the boy, lying in the hospital, in grave condition, a bullet lodged in his head. Otto is his father, a commercial artist whose marriage has collapsed in the wake of the disaster. Paul Griner's brave novel taps directly into the vein of...

To Zenzi is the extraordinary story of Tobias Koertig's odyssey through the apocalypse of Berlin in 1945. An orphaned thirteen-year-old who loves to draw, Tobias is coerced into joining the German youth army in the last desperate weeks of the war. Mistaken for a...

This program includes a bonus interview with the author. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 USA TODAY BESTSELLER#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER#1 INDIE BESTSELLER The Four Winds seems eerily prescient in 2021 . . . Its message is galvanizing and hopeful: We are a nation...

This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world! As boys, Kenji and his friends came up with a bunch of stories about an evil organization bent on world destruction. As adults, someone is now turning their fantasies...

From the hilarious creator of Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great comes this silly-but-sweet story about a (not-at-all-scary) monster who tries to play with his prey! Rah! Buddy's a monster, and he's hungry! Time for all cute little bunnies to hop into his mouth. "Oh...

Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn's YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.After her mother dies in an...

In All of Us Warriors, Rebecca Whitehead Munn paints a realistic picture of the impact cancer has on an individual's life, and she attempts to demystify the experience by sharing heartfelt stories from twenty survivors and the loved ones of those that passed. They...

Within the thirteen stories of Whitney Collins's Big Bad dwells a hunger that's dark, deep, and hilarious. Part domestic horror, part flyover gothic, Big Bad serves up real-world predicaments in unremarkable places (motels, dormitories, tiki bars), all with Collins's heart-wrenching flavor of magical realism....

Longlisted for the Booker International. Two women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A wrong turn. A bad decision. They had no idea, when they arrived in Morocco, that their usual freedoms as young European women would not be...