Award Winning Books

Packed with voice, Shannon C.F. Rogers' I'd Rather Burn than Bloom is a powerful YA novel about a Filipina-American teen who tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother's death. Some girls call their mother their best friend....

WINNER OF A GOLD BEN FRANKLIN AWARD If you or a family member are among the millions of people suffering from heartburn, acid reflux, or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), you are dealing with discomfort that impacts eating, sleeping, and other aspects of daily life....

(TRIGGER WARNING: Abuse, Offensive Language)Awakening to Racial InjusticeZenetta Henchman awakens to the racial injustices rooted in her small town when she witnesses a Black neighbor's fatal shooting. The lack of justice delivered by the police, along with the lack of attention the shooting receives...

Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager who used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause.In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially...

"Stunning. . . . a bit like if you took Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Monsters Inc. and shoved them in a TARDIS."--Buzzfeed It's a tentacled, inventive, gooey, world in there. . . . Elliot Von Doppler and his friend Leslie think nothing...

Author: MadonnaPublisher: Viking BooksPublished: 11/10/2003Pages: 30Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 10.38h x 8.28w x 0.57dISBN: 9780670058839Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.8Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 75461 / Mr. Peabody's ApplesAward: Florida Children's Book Award - NomineeReview Citation(s): Booklist 11/15/2003 pg. 601Publishers Weekly 12/15/2003...

When Azalea's family moves to Portland, Maine, so that her father can try driving a tour bus for a living, Azalea's mom decides she wants Azalea (11) and her older sister Zenith (13) to try unschooling. The sisters try to find the right balance...

Bewitched meets Murder She Wrote in this delightful new cozy mystery series featuring Ophelia Jensen, small town librarian and reluctant psychic, and her grandmother Abby, a benevolent witch. Thirty something Ophelia Jensen wants to live a quiet life as a small town librarian. She's...

Zuniga, nationally acclaimed for her powerful poem "To the Oklahoma Lawmakers," hailed as a riveting message about the war on women, presents her latest collection of poetry, The Smell of Good Mud.In this evocative work, she ventures into the untamed landscape of queer, feminist,...

It's Halloween, and you are the special guest at a haunted house celebration party--provided you pass the test that the silly ghosts, skeletons, witches and spiders have in store! This Not-Too-Spooky Pop-Up Book springs to life in six whimsical spreads with movable scenes, interactive...

"The book's narrative is smooth and well-paced, interspersed with exciting close calls, twists and turns. The action sequences are so descriptive they seem cinematic..." - BlueInk Review (Starred Review)"...good fit for early readers...inspiring animal alliance..." - Kirkus Reviews"The award-winning Savanna's Treasure stands out as...

"Graham's poetry is among the most sensuously embodied and imaginative writing we have." --New York TimesA startlingly original collection of poems from Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham An extraordinary American artist whom The New Yorker calls "a mesmerizing voice," Graham has been placed in...

With Orphans, Ben Tanzer continues his ongoing literary survey of the twenty-first-century male psyche, yet does so with a newfound twist, contemporary themes set in a world that is anything but. In this dystopian tale of a future Chicago, workers are sent off to...

The discipline of preaching has undergone several evolutionary momentsin the past century, focusing on its purpose as being variouslypersuasion, explanation, and, most recently, communication. Ofparticular and lingering influence has been Harry Emerson Fosdick's"preaching as counseling" model, which urged therapeutic, individualistic methods upon the pastor....

Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, the once infamous photographer, Wagstaff, in fact, had an incalculable--and largely overlooked--influence...

Author: Daniel PinkwaterPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersPublished: 05/03/2010Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 7.64h x 5.82w x 0.63dISBN: 9780547328652Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.7Point Value: 6Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 128120 / Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went,...

This laugh-out-loud poetry collaboration from a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling author and a Caldecott Honor illustrator is anything but ordinary. Dive in to Karma Wilson's latest collection of more than 100 poems--some humorous, some poignant, and all of them Outside the...

A true crime thriller -- the first book for teens to tell the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body The action begins in October of 1875, as Secret Service agents raid the Fulton, Illinois, workshop of master counterfeiter...

Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal...

Woolbur is a free-spirited, fluffy, one-of-a-kind sheep! He knows the most important accessories are confidence and fearlessness. Woolbur is not like other sheep. He hangs out with wild dogs and even dyes his wool blue."Don't worry!" says Grandpaa when Maa and Paa fret that...