An enchanting urban fantasy middle-grade debut—the first book in a trilogy—set in a magical hotel full of secrets.Orphan Elizabeth Somers’s malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winter
As a new day dawns on a boisterous farm, the animals realize that Goose is missing, and youngsters can join in the clucking, mucking, mewing, and cooing as the animals search for Goose.
It’s the summer of 1903 in Brooklyn and all fourteen-year-old Joseph Michtom wants is to experience the thrill, the grandeur, and the electricity of the new amusement park at Coney Island. But that do
A collection of tales from West Africa covers the gamut of subjects from people of the forests, the seacoast, the hills, and the plains, including stories of tricksters, warriors, hunters, and more. A
Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient
See how Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse became friends and then soar above the city with Chester Cricket and Lulu Pigeon in these delightful companions to The Cricket in Times Square.
A YA rom-com about a disgraced starlet who enlists the help of a cute delivery boy when her eccentric grandma goes missing in New York City.Eighteen-year-old Evie Jones's entire career is at the mercy
It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a n
A follow-up to Ten Rules for Living with My Sister finds Pearl writing an essay about her complicated summer during which her father lost his job, her sister was her junior camp counselor and she had
It was a dark and stormy night…In 1962, Madeleine L’Engle debuted her novel A Wrinkle in Time, which would go on to win the 1963 Newbery Medal. Bridging science and fantasy, darkness and light, fear a
In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daug
In this dark historical YA debut, two young men―one scarred and dutiful, the other wickedly magnetic―fall for the same young woman. But is it safe for her to love either of them back?Vlad Dracula has long lived in the shadows cast by his bloodthirsty father, the voivode, and his older brother, Mircea. Despite their cruelty, Vlad has yearned to prove himself worthy of the throne his whole life. He can only rely on his cousin and closest friend, Andrei Musat.When Vlad and Andrei meet Ilona Csáki, the daughter of an influential boyar, they find themselves inextricably drawn to her. But when Ilona is betrothed to Mircea as part of a political alliance, Vlad's resentfulness of his brother seethes into something darker.Ilona has no desire to marry Micrea, but marriage is the least of her worries. The royal family’s enemies have already tried to put an arrow through her back―and if anyone discovers her blossoming feelings for Andrei and Vlad, she may just wish they’d succeeded.
A YA true account of seven Danish teens who dared to fight the Nazi war machine, from a National Book Award– and Newbery Honor–winning author.Overwhelmed by Nazi aggression at the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis into their own hands. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance. Interweaving his own narrative with the recollections of Knud himself, Phillip Hoose tells young adult readers the inspiring story of these young war heroes in The Boys Who Challenged Hitler. This thoroughly-researched and document
