Anna’s very excited. She’s been invited to her friend’s birthday party. The only problem is that her mother can’t afford to buy a birthday gift for Anna to give her friend. You can’t go to a birthday party without a gift, now can you? In...

Adi's Animal Adventures by Julie Schanke Lyford and Mariia Luzina is a children's picture book about animals. Adi wants to introduce you to the animals at the Minnesota School. There is a checklist to complete, so join in as Adi and her Critter Crew show...

Alyssa's Wishes is the second book in A Michaels Middle School Story series by Susan Read. While making good grades and assuring her teachers everything is all right in her home life, Alyssa is making wishes for a change in her circumstances. Though her dad...

A Little Patience is a children's picture book written by Michelle Mae and illustrated by Marta Taylor. The story follows Chase, a child who struggles with waiting. He does not understand the concept of being patient, but with the help of his mother, he learns...

Angelo’s Mudventures was written by Ayesha Michelle Menezes and illustrated by Tapoti Rani Sarkar. With the fear of Covid-19 hanging around, Angelo became worried about playing with anything that might carry germs and make him sick. Everything he did now had a new routine that...

Are You a Pineapple? by Kathryn A. Zolman is the story of a young boy called Kevin who gets a new puppy. He loves her very much but he is struggling to come up with a name for her. As he looks around his home...

“You bring to a painting your own experience.” Artist Jacob Lawrence wrote these words. It’s true. Art, whether visual, literary, theatrical, or musical, evolves from who we are, where we’ve been, and how we define ourselves. In Celia Vernal’s An Artist Like Me, readers will...

Addy Iris’s initials are AI, just like the AI named Jaz, the robot she meets on her way home from school. Jaz is lost and confused. He was created in a lab and released into the world to experience and learn about humans. In Amber...

Atoms Everywhere! Unpeeled by Russ and Yammy with Nury Vittachi (Science Everywhere!) is an interesting nonfiction book featuring everything a child would want to know about atoms, from their discovery to their future. The book walks the reader through the first hypothesis by a sage...

Losing a loved one is never easy; loss-induced grief is inevitable no matter how old you are. But children have an even harder time dealing with grief as they are new to the concept. A Million Little Stars by Amanda Loraine Lynch, Candice Davis, and...