A Is For Bee: An Alphabet Book In Translation

Ellen Heck’s picture book debut is a fun romp through the animal alphabet. A is for Bee is an extraordinarily illustrated look at what animals are called around the world. How is it that “F” is for butterfly and “Y” is for porcupine? You’ll have to flip through this incredible gift book to see how everything and everyone are interconnected.

Snowglobe

Given the opportunity to enter Snowglobe, the last place on Earth that’s warm, where its residents, in exchange for fame, fortune and safety, broadcast their lives 24/7 to the less fortunate outside, Chobahm discovers reality is a lie–and the truth is out of reach.

This book is part of the Worlds of Words Global Reading List for 2023/24.

The Moonlit Vine

Fourteen year old Taína just learned that she is a descendant of a long line of strong Taíno women, but will knowing this help her bring peace and justice to her family and community?

She Sells Seashells: Mary Anning, An Unlikely Paleontologist

In the early 1800s, Mary Anning was a young girl who collected fossils and shells on the seaside cliffs by her home; and even though she was a most unlikely scientist, Mary eventually made significant fossilized discoveries that paved the way for the development of the field of paleontology.

Three Summers

A middle grade nonfiction story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia.

Wings To Soar

In 1972 Viva and her Indian family were forced to leave Uganda, now in a resettlement camp in England she struggles to cope with the living conditions there, hoping that her father may join them soon.

The Longest Night In Egypt

The Shadow Prince saga continues as Ash and his heroic friends rush to save Ra from the belly of Apep and bring light back to an Egypt that has been plunged into darkness.

The Magic Paintbrush

When Amy, a Chinese American girl, picks up an ancient paintbrush, it unwittingly unleashes the power to make her art real and sometimes dangerous.