Award Winning Books

Candlewick relaunches a modern classic for this generation with a beautifully illustrated edition. Heather's favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, and two pets. And she also has two mommies. When Heather goes to school for the first time, someone asks...

A novel full of heart, humor, and charm from Newbery Honor winner Joan Bauer When twelve-year-old Foster and her mother land in the tiny town of Culpepper, they don't know what to expect. But folks quickly warm to the woman with the great voice...

Author: Thomas WiewandtPublisher: Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublished: 10/15/2022Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.20h x 8.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9780878427130Audience: Ages 9-12Award: Benjamin Franklin Award - Silver Medal Winner

This comical, adorable, and fascinating reader documents the lives of monkeys living in the wild and includes details regarding their behavior, families, and environment. The carefully constructed text guarantees a successful and rewarding reading experience for level 2 readers who are able to read...

"Pedro is very poor.""Yes, I can tell by the clothes he wears."I was mad because somehow the way they were whispering, it sounded like being poor was something very terrible.Meet six-year-old Pedrito, who lives on a South Texas farm with his mother, father, and...

Enola Holmes, Sherlock's much younger, and feistier, sister, returns in an adventure of a confused young Baronet's daughter who is on the run from her father's devious schemes in Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade. Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of...

A Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. Stinky is a monster who loves pickles and possums but is terrified of people. This hilarious and heartwarming story by ferociously talented cartoonist Eleanor Davis proves that even monsters can make new friends . . . warts and...

Sundays find the Bear family busily enjoying all sorts of activities, but church isn't one of them. In The Berenstain Bears Go to Sunday School, children discover the value of going to church and Sunday School as a family.The Berenstain Bears Go to Sunday...

Also available in Spanish as Escrito y dibujado por Enriqueta A Junior Library Guild Selection Reading books is fun . . . but what about making them? Armed with new colored pencils, Henrietta's ready to try. Peek over her shoulder as she draws the...

During a night of Web surfing for celeb gossip and masturbatory material, digital marketing producer Suzanne Kim stumbles across an intriguing thread while checking her profile on kinklife.com. Suzanne isn't exactly looking, but the request for a very specific type of submissive from the...

Author: Tracy DeonnPublisher: Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage CompPublished: 04/05/2023Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 2.40lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.90w x 2.20dISBN: 9798885783316Audience: Young AdultAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.9Point Value: 26Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 518320 / BloodmarkedAward: Hugo Award - Nominee

A collection of poems by L. Lamar Wilson chosen by Lee Ann Brown as winner of the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series prize.Author: L. Lamar WilsonPublisher: Carolina Wren PressPublished: 01/31/2013Pages: 88Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9780932112934Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards...

Strange things are happening in Maya's tiny Vancouver Island town. First, her friend Serena, the captain of the swim team, drowns mysteriously in the middle of a calm lake. Then, one year later, mountain lions are spotted rather frequently around Maya's home--and her reactions...

It was a simple idea that became the worldwide ministry of Operation Christmas Child--to minister to children in war-torn and famine-stricken countries. In just two decades it has inspired everyday people to provide more than 100 million gift-filled shoeboxes to needy children in 130...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Tres Navarre has just hours of apprenticeship time to serve before he can go for his P.I. license. Staking out a musician suspected of stealing a demo tape...

Everyone--including mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance--loves Arsenic and Old Lace.But something wicked is poisoned a local summer stock production as cast members stab each other in the back and props are sabotaged.Worst of all, the star, aging Hollywood beach-blanket hunk Shane Petree, butchers his...

Jeff Smith's New York Times and USA Today bestselling, award-winning BONE books are one of the most popular graphic novel series of all time!Fone Bone and his cousins plan to return home after visiting the village of Barrelhaven with Thorn and Gran'ma Ben. But...

Author: Lambers FisherPublisher: PESI Publishing, Inc.Published: 08/10/2021Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9781683733881Award: Benjamin Franklin Award - Gold Medal Winner

Poetry/Performance. Latino/Latina Studies. Art. Edited by Rosa Alcalá. SPIT TEMPLE collects texts and transcriptions of Vicuña's uncategorizable improvised performances, which combine singing, movement, chants, and stories. Also included are a critical introduction by Rosa Alcalá, a poetic memoir by Vicuña (translated by Alcalá) addressing...

Reeling from an unexpected betrayal, can Sylvia find relief from the echoes of her past...or will they shape her future forever? Although Sylvia Fisher recognizes that most Old Order Amish women her age spend their hours managing a household and raising babies, she has...