"Lightning Mary" is a rewarding novelization of how Mary Anning became one of the first people to discover dinosaurs. In 1810, Mary, an eleven-year-old girl, made a world-changing discovery on a muddy English beach. Here, Mary bursts... Read More

More than anything, Ming wants to feel like she belongs, and a Christmas tree would be grand, too. Growing up in the 1930s, she faces discrimination at school for being Chinese, and displeasure at home for being too American. The... Read More

The secret lives of fairies are finally revealed in this whimsical field guide for open-minded naturalists. Its creative combination of scientific facts with folklore accompanies its detailed illustrations of sprites, will-o-the-wisps,... Read More

Kim Hooper’s "All the Acorns on the Forest Floor" is a novel profligate in its pursuit of an idea: motherhood. As an organizing principle, motherhood is constructed across a series of chapter-long vignettes. Like the Fleetwood Mac song... Read More

A bicycle newspaper route helps an anxious boy mature in the novel "Fearfully and Wonderfully Made". A new bike would help Skeeter, but it won’t solve all his problems. His father may lose his job, his mother spends all her time caring... Read More

John W. Haines’s travel accounts go across the world, but their heart stays at home. Haines is from Laramie, Wyoming, a place he describes in terms of its freedom, extreme weather, and adventurous and caring people. But like many young... Read More

Thao Lam shares her family’s history in this wordless tribute to the adults and children who were forced to flee Vietnam in the aftermath of the war. Its panels feature expressive collage art in murky shades with soft color accents,... Read More

In Sarah M. Eden’s graceful historical romance "Forget Me Not", a marriage is arranged between once-friends who grew apart. Julia always looked up to her neighbor, Lucas, as a beloved older brother. But Lucas left for an adventurous... Read More