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Age range 3 to 6A moving tale of love, fear, and the courage of letting go.Beyond the hill where the tree lives, lies Who Knows Where. Every year when the wind blows, the tree's seeds sail to this mysterious place-until the day an especially tiny seed...

Age range 3 to 6I Am a Peaceful Goldfish teaches kids and families about playful breathing techniques that we can use to overcome our anxiety and feel calm and grounded. When we are overcome with emotions, our breath - and a bit of imagination - can...

"Whimsical... readers can unleash their own imaginations." -New York TimesFans of Peter Brown and Jon Klassen will cherish this inspiring story about exploration, curiosity and an unexpected discovery.There are wonders all around us ... Why not go see...

Age range 5 to 9*Winner of BolognaRagazzi Award 2020 (German edition)* A beautifully simple story about moving to a new home, exploring themes of change and permanence and told with warm illustrations from an award-winning illustrator.A...

Age range 0 to 1Meet joyful babies and toddlers in daily life. Introduces the concept of Lailah Tov, Good Night! Time for Bed models a happy bedtime routine including the Hebrew goodnight wishes followed by a peaceful sleep. Babies and toddlers will...

Age range 12+Set on a small and struggling family dairy operation in southern Minnesota, The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen follows fifteen-year-old Carl as he confronts his crush on Andy Olnan, a handsome and confident but secretive...

Good news! Principal Clarkson says Grape is ready for junior high. He doesn't have to go to Riverwash, the school for troubled kids! But there's also bad news. Grape's best friend, Lou, has moved to New York, leaving Grape alone to ride his Evel Knievel...

Age range 12+Angsty teenager Mary Shelley is not interested in carrying on her family's celebrated legacy of being a great writer, but she soon discovers that she has the not-so-celebrated and super-secret Shelley power to heal monsters, just like her...

The follow-up to the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection book Maddie and MabelBest sisters Maddie and Mabel are back and navigating new firsts in the second book of this heartwarming series. Who does it right? Who does it best? Who goes first?...

Five-year-old Viva learns there is a need for girls with powerful voices everywhere when she helps Papi raise his voice on the picket line.Viva's Papi is a bus driver and Viva loves going to work with him. The sounds of the traffic and the voices of the...

The Spencer Hill Press release has bonus content never before available.Blue Echohawk doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know her real name or when she was born. Abandoned at two and raised by a drifter, she didn't attend school until she was ten years...

In this book in the Stella and Sam series, Marie-Louise Gay has gone back in time to answer the questions often asked by the children who read and love the books.Where does Stella get her wild ideas? How big is Stella's imagination? What did Stella look...

Age range 12+After three years of high school, Margaret still isn't any closer to what she wants: to sing and dance on Broadway, to be a model like Twiggy, to be madly in love with someone other than Paul McCartney. It's not much to ask, but with her...

//*\\ Nautilus Book Award - Silver Medalist for Middle-Grade Nonfiction //*\\Attention all grown-ups!Kids have questions! Now they'll have answers.Kids of all ages have some important questions about how their bodies work-and why their parents and other...

Age range 8 to 12Jeff Miller's heartbreaking, coming-of-age middle-grade novel - inspired by his personal experience living through his own parent's heart transplant - invites readers into the world of a twelve-year-old birdwatcher looking for a place to...

The Faerie have come to take London, and only one girl stands in their way.Justice isn't your average fifteen-year-old girl. She's an irrepressible scoundrel, and she always has a plan. But her world falls apart when her father forcibly bundles the...