Jennings (The Beastly Arms) launches a series of early chapter books starring siblings Ike and Mem, with this tale of a universal childhood fascination: a Continue reading »
"Featuring colorful characters, a hint of mystery and an unusual perspective on urban life, this winsome novel traces the remarkable discoveries of an 11-year-old nature lover and photography Continue reading »
Jennings (The Beastly Arms
) once again demonstrates his versatility with this novel for baseball fans and for those who are more comfortable in the stands than Continue reading »
Told by Crusher, a gopher snake, this pointed story might encourage middle-graders to rethink their relationships to any pets that are incarcerated in cages. Briefly mistaken for a rattlesnake, Continue reading »
Narrated by a Mexican street dog who befriends an unhappy girl and flies with her in a home-made rocket to an uncharted island, this first novel is ""a soaring flight into magic realism,"" said PW in Continue reading »
First-time novelist Jennings takes a soaring flight into magic realism in this captivating tale narrated with brio by a Mexican street dog. Edison, a perro corriente (electric dog) relates how he Continue reading »
Reflecting the tone of Grimms' fairy tales, this Depression-era novel about five runaway orphans is as dark as it is fantastical. Edith, the 15-year-old heroine of the story, is desperate to escape Continue reading »
Bat and Rat are best friends and a musical duo: Bat is the composer/musician and Rat is the lyricist/singer. Stuck on a song, they head to an ice cream shop, where a tragic accident (Rat is somewhat Continue reading »
Ten-year-old Woodrow Schwette is the weirdest kid in his class until quiet, tiny, suit-wearing Toulouse Gulot shows up by way of Quebec. Jennings (My Homework Ate My Homework) creates a sympathetic Continue reading »
Young fans of YouTube?s Grumpy Cat will be smitten with Hissy, the crabby feline hero of Jenning?s (the Guinea Dog series) latest animal tale. Hissy grudgingly admits to loving Georgie Fitz, his Continue reading »
Claudine, a bright-eyed girl with a blonde bob, has strong feelings about Santa: ?He watched you when you were sleeping and when you were awake. Which was snooping.? Then there?s the fact that he Continue reading »
Onoseta’s devastatingly vulnerable debut, told nonlinearly in two teen Nigerian girls’ dual perspectives, portrays a tempestuous sisterhood amid colorism, familial trauma, and Continue reading »
Humor and heartfelt emotion reign supreme in a quirky narrative that centers the importance of family, blood or blended. Twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez, who’s of Mexican descent, Continue reading »
“Sal loved the water. He liked to imagine it moving under his feet.” With junk from his mother’s garage and pickings from local businesses, he starts building. In the family’s Continue reading »
Rick, a lumpy gray rock with googly eyes and a sweet smile, has been sitting on Room 214’s Nature Finds shelf “for as long as he can remember” while on-the-move human students, Continue reading »