Where Butterflies Fill the Sky

2022-03-29
Where Butterflies Fill the Sky
Author: Zahra Marwan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1547607831
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A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book One of NPR's Best Books of 2022 Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Informational Books for Younger Readers of 2022 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2022 A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 2022 Blue Ribbon Book The Society of Illustrators' Dilys Evans Founders Award Winner 2022 Zahra Marwan is a recipient of the United Nations Minority Artist Award on Statelessness An evocative picture book debut that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States. Zahra lives in a beautiful place where the desert reaches all the way to the sea and one hundred butterflies always fill the sky. When Baba and Mama tell her that their family is no longer welcome here and they must leave, Zahra wonders if she will ever feel at home again--and what about the people she will leave behind? But when she and her family arrive in a new desert, she's surprised to find magic all around her. Home might not be as far away as she thought it would be. With spare, moving text and vivid artwork, Zahra Marwan tells the true story of her and her family's immigration from Kuwait, where they were considered stateless, to New Mexico, where together they made a new home. "Utterly original and enjoyable from start to finish." -Betsy Bird, librarian, book critic, and author of Long Road to the Circus

Choosing Books for Children

2000
Choosing Books for Children
Author: Betsy Gould Hearne
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2000
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9780252069284
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Presents a tool for choosing books for children of all ages. This title offers practical guidance on sorting through the bewildering array of picture books, pop-up books, books for beginning readers, young adult titles, classics, poetry, olktales, and factual books.

Himawari House

2021-11-09
Himawari House
Author: Harmony Becker
Publisher: First Second
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250861063
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A young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan. Living in a new country is no walk in the park—Nao, Hyejung, and Tina can all attest to that. The three of them became fast friends through living together in the Himawari House in Tokyo and attending the same Japanese cram school. Nao came to Japan to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, while Hyejung and Tina came to find freedom and their own paths. Though each of them has her own motivations and challenges, they all deal with language barriers, being a fish out of water, self discovery, love, and family.

The Breaking News

2018-04-10
The Breaking News
Author: Sarah Lynne Reul
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250312078
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When devastating news rattles a young girl's community, her normally attentive parents and neighbors are suddenly exhausted and distracted. At school, her teacher tells the class to look for the helpers—the good people working to make things better in big and small ways. She wants more than anything to help in a BIG way, but maybe she can start with one small act of kindness instead . . . and then another, and another.Small things can compound, after all, to make a world of difference. The Breaking News by Sarah Lynne Reul touches on themes of community, resilience, and optimism with an authenticity that will resonate with readers young and old.

How To Walk An Ant

2019-03-26
How To Walk An Ant
Author: Cindy Derby
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250253349
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There are nine steps to becoming an ant walker, and Amariyah, the expert ant walker, is here to show you how it’s done. This irreverent and quirky picture book, How to Walk an Ant, follows a young girl as she goes through the process of walking ants, from polite introductions to tragic leash entanglements. In the end, this unique book from author-illustrator Cindy Derby shows that as long as you’re doing what you’re best at, you may find a like-minded friend to tag along. *Zero ants were harmed in the making of this book. **Oops, 7 ants were harmed in the making of this book.

I Am J

2011-03
I Am J
Author: Cris Beam
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316053619
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J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.

His Hideous Heart

2019-09-10
His Hideous Heart
Author: Dahlia Adler
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250302781
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Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation. Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in both Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales, and in the 13 unique and unforgettable ways that they've been brought to life. Contributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining “Ligeia”), Kendare Blake (“Metzengerstein”), Rin Chupeco (“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”), Lamar Giles (“The Oval Portrait”), Tessa Gratton (“Annabel Lee”), Tiffany D. Jackson (“The Cask of Amontillado”), Stephanie Kuehn (“The Tell-Tale Heart”), Emily Lloyd-Jones (“The Purloined Letter”), amanda lovelace (“The Raven”), Hillary Monahan (“The Masque of the Red Death”), Marieke Nijkamp (“Hop-Frog”), Caleb Roehrig (“The Pit and the Pendulum”), and Fran Wilde (“The Fall of the House of Usher”).

Here and Now

2019
Here and Now
Author: Julia Denos
Publisher: Clarion Books
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2019
Genre: FICTION
ISBN: 1328465640
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A stunning celebration of mindfulness and a meditation on slowing down and enjoying each moment, from the team behind the award-winning Windows Explore identity and connection, inspire curiosity, and prompt engaging discussions about the here and now.

The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

2012
The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls
Author: Julie Schumacher
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012
Genre: Book clubs (Discussion groups)
ISBN: 0385737734
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When four very different small-town Delaware high school girls are forced to join a mother-daughter book club over summer vacation, they end up learning about more than just the books they read.