Fiction

Gr 6—9—An eight-year-old waits in the family's minivan while her mother goes into a convenience store...

PreS-K—Summer holds magic, especially for children, and this alphabet book takes some of that season's beloved symbols and associates them with a metaphor for God's love and bounty...

K-Gr 1—Each book tells a brief story while teaching a lesson...

Gr 4—6—Eleven-year-old Calli Gold is a quiet, perceptive child born into a family of overachievers...

Gr 4—6—An attractive compendium of critter facts, accompanied by some small, stellar acrylic paintings...

Gr 3—6—Kids hear about "carbon footprints,'" but Kirk's slim book shows exactly how big our "human footprint" is during a lifetime: 3796 disposable diapers for each baby (using 1898 pints of crude oil just to manufacture the liners); 12 cars (which have footprints for their own integral parts); 4376 loaves of bread, and 1055 pounds of sugar from candy bars...

PreS-Gr 1—A whimsical bedtime story to share again and again...

Gr 3—6—These recipes, compiled from four of the author's previous books, look good enough to eat...