Award Winning Books

Good Night World highlights the rainforest, Great Barrier Reef, wetlands, Great Wall of China, redwoods, waterfalls, African animals, deserts, farms, islands, Mount Everest, lakes, volcanos, whales, cities, stars, and more. Perfect for parents who want to share a love of nature with their children,...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER First Second is very proud to present Nursery Rhyme Comics. Featuring fifty classic nursery rhymes illustrated and interpreted in comics form by fifty of today's preeminent cartoonists and illustrators, this is a groundbreaking new entry in the canon of...

*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as a strong, enlightened twenty-first-century...

London, 1881. Once the flames are ignited . . . Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has...

Simple ideas, lasting love.Between busy schedules and long days, expressing love can fall by the wayside. We forget to compliment, to give gifts "just because," to linger in an embrace. The things that say "I love you" seem to either not get said or...

How did the state of Minnesota get its name? An age-old Ojibwe tale holds the key.Author: Kathy-Jo WarginPublisher: Sleeping Bear PressPublished: 06/01/2006Pages: 40Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 11.32h x 9.45w x 0.38dISBN: 9781585362622Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.3Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 107499...

An autobiographical portrait of a gay Arab man, living between cultures, seeking an identity through love and writing.I had to rediscover who I was. And that's why I left the apartment.... And there I was, right in the heart of the Arab world, a...

Stories of real teens creating change show readers how they too can make the world a better place. GENERATION FIX is the only kid's book that features real life stories of kids doing incredible things to make the world a better place. Capturing kids...

All fathers have heard it before-having a baby really changes your life. And maybe they felt like David L. Hill, MD, FAAP, author of Dad to Dad: Parenting Like a Pro. Dr Hill is a dad himself and a pediatrician in practice. Inside this...

An interfaith friendship develops when Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, overlaps with the Muslim holiday of Ramadan--an occurence that happens only once every thirty years or so. Moses Feldman, a Jewish boy, lives at one end of Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, New York,...

A playful picture-book biography of the father of space-age bachelor-pad lounge music. Gorgeously illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh, this lively biography follows Juan Garcia Esquivel from Mexico to New York City. Juan grew up to the sounds of mariachi bands; he loved music and became...

Beth Dooley arrived in Minnesota from her native New Jersey with preconceptions about the Midwestern food scene. Having learned to cook in her grandmother's kitchen, shopping at farm stands and making preserves, she couldn't help but wonder, "Do people here really eat swampy broccoli,...

The classic tale of a female Huck Finn, Peter Bogdanovich's film version of the book was nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in the darkest days of the Great Depression, this is the timeless story of an 11-year-old orphan's rollicking journey through the Deep...

Celebrate Rocky's centennial with Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years. Award-winning author Mary Taylor Young tells a story that stretches from the dawn of time into the future. Journey back to witness the rise, fall, and rise again of mountains. Meet ancient...

Written for kids ages 8 to 12, Digging Up Dinosaurs is chock full of fun and fascinating information about fossils in Montana, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Horner takes kids along on the dig, explaining step by step how fossils...

This novel of a young lesbian addict in '90s NYC "recalls Naked Lunch" with "dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous" prose--"an ecstatic love story" (Publishers Weekly). Written in the brash, fervent voice of the young and addicted, this debut novel from underground superstar Laurie Weeks "is...

In his bold second book, Ben Lerner molds philosophical insight, political outrage, and personal experience into a devastating critique of mass society. Angle of Yaw investigates the fate of public space, public speech, and how the technologies of viewing--aerial photography in particular--feed our culture...

The first in a series of groundbreaking novels about the American West from the Lakota perspectiveAuthor: Joseph M. MarshallPublisher: Fulcrum PublishingPublished: 08/01/2007Pages: 375Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.10dISBN: 9781555916534Award: Benjamin Franklin Award - FinalistAward: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Silver Medal...

A striking and ambitious collection of gay horror fiction, covering a wide range of creatures of the night and all manner of urban terrors.Author: Michael RowePublisher: Arsenal Pulp PressPublished: 07/01/2002Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.01w x 0.73dISBN: 9781551520841Award: Lambda Literary Awards -...

"With good-natured humor and a jaunty rhyme scheme perfect for reading aloud, Bently and Ogilvie's spirited romp celebrates the love between chaotic kiddos and their steadfast parents." --Booklist (starred review) Yes, parents are bossy--but they also have their perks. Discover the best of them...