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Backpacks, Lunch Boxes, and Giggles Galore: Back-to-School Adventures
This year’s crop of back-to-school titles balances familiar elements with inventive plots to explore commonplace qualms and quandaries with creativity and pizzazz.
'The Giver' Movie and other Tales for Teens About a World Gone Wrong
First published in 1993, Lois Lowry’s The Giver makes its long-awaited big screen debut on August 15. Recommend these recent YA releases to fans of the unforgettable dystopian novel.
Field Trip to the Animal Kingdom | Great Books About Zoos
From a lonely gorilla to a confused moose to a missing koala, these great titles will inspire real and imagined trips to the zoo.
Great Reads for Video Gamers
This lineup of gorgeous behind-the-scenes browsers, cool book and graphic-novel tie-ins, and magnetic YA novels that star gamers as protagonists is sure to reel in teens who spend their leisure time with game controller in hand.
Down by the Sea | Factual & Fictional Selections for Young Readers
Covering 71 percent of Earth’s surface, home to a vast array of plant and animal species, inherently mysterious and largely unexplored, the ocean makes a fascinating topic for motivating investigations and stimulating imaginations.
Cool Correspondence | Great Books About Writing Letters
The lost art of written communication is explored and celebrated in these lively picture books.
Juneteenth: The First Day of Freedom
Angela Johnson and E. B. Lewis’s beautiful and evocative and 'All Different Now' (S&S, 2014) commemorates the first Juneteenth (June 19, 1865), when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with the long-delayed news of emancipation.
Remembering D-Day
Seventy years ago, on June 6, 1944, Allied troops launched an audacious assault on a 50-mile expanse of heavily defended coastline in Normandy, France. These resources on the historic event incorporate dynamic writing, stunning visuals, and plentiful primary source materials.
Welcome, Little One | Great Books about Babies
Sometimes humorous, sometimes heartfelt, but never humdrum, these picture books are just right for siblings anticipating or adjusting to a new member of the household, kids with big questions, or youngsters who yearn to revisit the simple pleasures of babyhood.
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