A Small Community Library With A Big Heart

Matt de la Pena

Home is a tired lullaby and a late-night traffic that mumbles in through a crack in your curtains. Home is the faint trumpet of a distant barge as your grandfather casts his line from the edge of his houseboat. With lyrical text and expressive artwork, Matt de la Pena and Loren Long celebrate the beauty and love found in every home, no matter its size. They show how a home is more than just a place... People can be a kind of home--a family and a community that cares for one another. And the natural world is another kind of home, a refuge we share with every living thing on Earth. This deeply moving ode to the universal pull of home, whatever its form, is destined to become a new classic that will be cherished by readers of every age.

Kirsten Chang

Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces baby pandas and baby polar bears to young readers through leveled text and related photos.

Sarah Roggio

Cheetahs are the world's fastest land animals. How do gazelles escape these speedy predators? Young learners will uncover the weapons and defenses of each animal and discover who rules the savanna.

Scott Reintgen

Thirteen-year-old Lunar Jones was born on Mars, with every day a struggle, until he stumbles into a restricted military zone where he learns dragons are real and a new dragon has chosen him as a rider--a role he needs to embrace quickly because this dragon could save the Martian colony.

Kelly Andrew

Following the death of his father, Thomas Walsh had to grow up quickly, taking on odd-jobs to keep food on the table and help pay his gravely ill mother's medical bills. When he's offered a highly paid position as an interpreter for an heiress who exclusively signs, Thomas -- the hearing child of a Deaf adult -- jumps at the opportunity. But the job is not without its challenges. Thomas is expected to accompany Vivienne wherever she goes, but from the start, she seems determined to shake him. To make matters worse, her parents keep her on an extremely short leash. She is not to go anywhere without express permission. She is not to deviate from her routine. She is, most importantly, not to be out after dark.

Suzanne Collins

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear gripsthe districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch's name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He's torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who's nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena

Sasha Peyton Smith

High society girls are expected to bargain for qualities that will win them suitors: A rare talent for piano in exchange for ones happiest childhood memory. A perfect smile for ones ability to taste. But Ivy's debut season arrives with a shocking twist -- a competition to marry the queen's fae son, Prince Bram. It is a prize that could save Ivy's family from ruin...and free her older sister from the bargain that destroyed her. Yet every glittering fae deal has a rotting heart. And amidst lavish balls, vicious competition, and a dangerous alliance with the prince's rakish younger brother, Prince Emmett, Ivy realizes that at the center of this contest lies a dark plot that could destroy all of England -- and her heart with it.

Amâelie Wen Zhao

Nine years ago, the war between the Kingdom of Night and the Kingdom of Rivers tore An'ying's family apart, leaving her mother barely alive and a baby sister to fend for. Now the mortal realm is falling into eternal night, and mo--beautiful, ravenous demons--roam the land, feasting on the flesh of humans and drinking their souls. An'ying is no longer a helpless child, though. Armed with her crescent blades and trained in the ancient art of practitioning, she has decided to enter the Immortality Trials, which are open to any mortal who can survive the journey to the immortal realm. Those who complete the Trials are granted a pill of eternal life--the one thing An'ying knows can heal her dying mother. But to attain the prize, she must survive the competition. Death is common in the Trials. Yet oddly, An'ying finds that someone is helping her stay alive. A rival contestant. Powerful and handsome, Yu'chen is as secretive about his past as he is about his motives for protecting An'ying. The longer she survives the Trials, the clearer it becomes that all is not right in the immortal realm. To save her mother and herself, An'ying will need to figure out whether she can truly trust the stranger she's falling for or if he's the most dangerous player of all . . . for herself and for all the realms.

Bruce Chadwick

An in-depth oral history of the Gettysburg battle, combining firsthand accounts and historical narrative to depict the pivotal clash that halted Lee's Northern advance, questioned his tactics, elevated Meade's leadership and inspired Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

Langston Hughes

A new collection of the earliest poems of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, along with some of his journal entries, songs, and a play cowritten with Duke Ellington.

Julie Leong

A fortune teller finds an unexpected family on her journeys in this heartwarming and charming fantasy debut. Tao, an immigrant fortune teller, lives in a wagon and roams the dusty outskirts of the kingdom of Eshtera. Fleeing a troubled past, she travels between villages telling only small fortunes: whether it will hail next Thursday; what boy will kiss which barmaid; when the cow will calve. Big fortunes come with big consequences...which she wants to avoid at all costs. Life on the road can be lonely but, to Tao's surprise, companionship comes unexpectedly. Tao's unlikely new friends break down her walls and unravel her secrets.

C. L. Miller

When Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, dies under mysterious circumstances, Freya Lockwood returns to her quaint English hometown to find the truth and, following the clues to an old manor hosting an antiques enthusiast's weekend, she finds herself drawn back into the dangerous world of tracking stolen artifacts.