Fiction
Gr 3—5—Inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Ladder to the Moon and her mother's gift for storytelling, the author (Barak Obama's half sister) weaves a tale that introduces her daughter to her grandmother's concern for others and her cultural heritage...
PreS-Gr 2—Finding the afikomen (the hidden matzah) is a favorite custom during the Jewish holiday of Passover...
Gr 4—6—In this timely novel, Carestio tells the story of Jack, whose soldier father died in Afghanistan...
Gr 9 Up—Growing up in the badlands of Wyoming, Grace Carpenter, 14, has longed for some way to escape the dullness of small-town life...
K-Gr 3—On a beautiful summer day, a crate falls off a truck, and out pops a colorful peacock that wanders down the road and changes life on the Tuckers' farm...
PreS-K—Youngsters can easily relate to the difficulty of selecting a new pair of shoes at the store when there are so many from which to choose...
PreS-Gr 4—Slim and his grandson, Luis, ride into Skinflint hungry enough to "eat a boiled leather boot...
Gr 7 Up—A 16-year-old boy with intermittent explosive disorder and a fondness for the comforts of home finds the remoteness and lack of electricity at his grandfather's house in Tasmania an added hardship to his sentence for causing an episode in a Melbourne fast-food restaurant that resulted in thousands of dollars of damage...
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