Harold & Hog Pretend for Real!By Dan Santat Harold the elephant and Hog are best friends. They can’t wait to pretend to be Elephant and Piggie! But Harold is too carefree to be Gerald, and Hog is to careful to be Piggie. What will they do? When they suddenly get the idea to switch roles, […]
Just JaimeBy Terri Libenson Jaime and Maya have been friends forever, but lately they seem to be growing apart. They’ve formed a group with Celia and Grace, but it seems to Jaime that the three other girls are subtly making fun of her. She just doesn’t seem to fit anymore. For her part, Maya isfeeling […]
Bear Country: Bearly A MisadventureBy Doreen Cronin That crazy Chicken Squad is back with another mystery to solve. This time, their caretaker, Barbara, is missing! She hasn’t kept to her usual routine, and now she’s not home. The Chicken Squad soon discovers that young Anna McClanahanahan’s hamster is missing too. Then they get reports of […]
Front DeskBy Kelly Yang Mia Tang and her parents have immigrated from China to California. Although the Tangs had excellent jobs in China, they are struggling to find work in the United States. When they land a job managing a motel, they think they’ve hit the jackpot. The pay is good, the whole family can […]
Survivor Diaries: Avalanche! By Terry Lynn Johnson Ashley and Ryan are twelve-year-old twins. Both love to ski and have experience ski touring. Although Ashley is a very competent skier, she is constantly trying to keep up with Ryan, who excels at everything. When Ashley and Ryan separate from their parents on a ski trip, they […]
To the Bright Edge of the WorldBy Eowyn Ivey It’s 1885 and Colonel Allen Forrester has been assigned to lead his men up Alaska’s Wolverine River. The journey will take them from Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska, through narrow canyons and passages not yet explored by white men, and down the Yukon […]
A Complicated CaseBy Ulf NilssonIllustrated by Gitte Spee All the animals in the forest are feeling down. Detective Gordon, a toad, and his assistant, Buffy, wonder why. Eventually they realize that someone is saying mean things to the forest animals. This is not allowed according to the Law, and Gordon and Buffy must solve the […]
All Four StarsBy Tara Dairman Gladys Gatsby is only twelve years old but she loves to cook! She enjoys fine foods from around the world, and shops at a gourmet grocery store. Gladys’s parents are just the opposite. Much to Gladys’s dismay, they eat take out every night and never turn on the stove – […]
The SquatchicornsBy Ellen PotterIllustrated by Felicita Sala Hugo and Boone are off on another adventure in this third book in the Big Foot and Little Foot series. Hugo is a sasquatch, but when a large group of strange sasquatches with unicorn horns appears at his cavern, he’s a bit concerned. It turns out there’s nothing […]
The Parker InheritanceBy Varian Johnson Twelve-year-old Candice has been forced to move to Lambert, South Carolina from her home in Atlanta. She is bored and unhappy. But when she discovers a mysterious letter waiting for her in her grandmother’s attic, she begins to investigate. The letter describes the Washingtons, an African American family who was […]