Award Winning Books

"Glimpses of a Forever Foreigner" is a collaboration between Lawrence Matsuda (poet) and Roger Shimomura (internationally known artist) inspired by the Japanese American experience including the World War II forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans. Shimomura was a youngster in the camps...

"I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to the U.S." Thus begins Leth Oun's poignant and vivid memoir. A survivor of the Cambodian Killing Fields--having spent a torturous three years, eight months,...

With emotional precision and narrative subtlety, The Royal Ghosts features characters trying to reconcile their true desires with the forces at work in Nepali society. Against the backdrop of the violent Maoist insurgencies that have claimed thousands of lives, these characters struggle with their...

For fans of Kelly Yang and Rebecca Stead, this touching middle grade novel maps one girl's quest to remember her grandfather through his scavenger hunts; reconnect with her family; and fight for her community in her rapidly changing hometown. Winner of the APALA Youth...

The average person has 70,000 thoughts every day, and many of those thoughts trigger a corresponding emotion. No wonder so many of us often feel like we're controlled by our emotions. Our lives would be much improved if we controlled them. In LIVING BEYOND...

"...an American talent..."--Stephen King Pollack writes about times of tragedy and transition insightfully, aware of their everyday quality and of their gravity. In the Mouth is a window onto the amazing tenderness and irrationality of human life. One story, "The Bris," has been selected...

Gauguin: Metamorphoses explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguin's rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and his better-known paintings and sculptures in wood and ceramic. Created in several discrete bursts of activity from 1889 until his death in 1903, these remarkable works on...

A riveting picture book biography of Betty Skelton, aviation and auto racing pioneer, from award-winning author/illustrator Megan McCarthy. In the 1930s most girls were happy playing with dolls. But one girl, Betty Skelton, liked playing with airplanes, watching them fly around outside, and even...

An indispensable guide to the complex art of nonprofit leadership and management In The Challenge of Change, Philip Coltoff distills the insights he has gained from nearly twenty-five years of leadership at The Children's Aid Society of New York City, one of the largest...

Author: Jimmy BuffettPublisher: Random House (NY)Published: 06/02/1998Pages: 458Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 9.54h x 6.42w x 1.50dISBN: 9780679435273Award: Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize - NotableReview Citation(s): Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/1998 pg. 66Publishers Weekly 06/08/1998 pg. 54Kirkus Reviews 06/15/1998 pg. 864Booklist 06/15/1998 pg. 1668Library Journal...

Author: Justine Pucella WinansPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublished: 09/17/2024Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781547615018Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.1Point Value: 9Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 523227 / OtherwoodsAward: Stonewall Book Award - Honor BookAbout the AuthorJustine Pucella Winans is a queer and nonbinary writer who resides...

Twelve-year-old Clara Dooley has spent her whole life in the crumbling Glendoveer mansion, home to a magician's widow, a cage full of exotic birds, and a decades-old mystery. Clara loves old Mrs. Glendoveer, but the birds in the aviary frighten her--they always seem to...

All sixteen-year-old Rose has is what she carries: a pillowcase of clothes, her boyfriend's unborn child, and a heart full of shame. In the face of 1952's strict moral code, Seminole matriarch Ma-Ki Ebbing embraces Rose. Ma-Ki, on the fringe of society, clings to...

In the hollow of a tree, higher than the eye can see...nine wood ducks hatch, one by one. "That's good!" says Mama. "We're almost done." One last egg is very still...Finally, the smallest egg hatches. Then it's time for all the wood ducks to...

Longlisted for the National Book Award in NonfictionShortlisted for the Museum of African American History's Stone Book Award * National Council on Public History Book Award Honorable Mention A "powerful and deeply moving" (LA Times) reexamination of the struggle for survival in the Reconstruction-era...

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIEDTo call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby-Dick a novel about whales. So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brien's now classic novel of Vietnam....

Winner at the 2015 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. What Are You Scared of, Little Mouse? is a tender tale that will help the youngest children overcome their fears."What are you scared of, Little Mouse?""I'm afraid of the dark, in case a monster comes and...

A moving novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only for them to find family in each other along the way. From the Newbery Honor Award-winning author of Iveliz...

Scott Pilgrim just turned 24, and things couldn't possibly be better This means things are about to get infinitely worse Suddenly, TWO of Ramona's evil ex-boyfriends are in town, and they're playing dirty. His band is in turmoil, and his own exes aren't making...

Njinga, the Warrior Queen, fought fiercely to keep her people from slavery. Yet she engaged in slave trading herself, performed human sacrifices and--some believed--even murdered her nephew, feasting on his heart. Was Njinga a terrifying tyrant or a freedom fighter? Gorgeous illustrations and a...