Fiction

Gr 8 Up—Orion Taylor is a pretty awesome musician...

PreS-K—A follow-up to I Love My Mommy (Hyperion, 2011), this simple picture book pays tribute to the special connection between fathers and daughters...

PreS—A baby is warmly welcomed to the world by his doting parents, who fantasize about what he will be able to do as he grows...

Gr 1–3—Young readers are introduced to the man who played a significant role in the establishment of the state of Texas...

PreS-K—In energetic cartoons that pop with color, this book adds some ingredients to the masculine part of that old nursery rhyme: "What are little boys made of?/Horses and lords and knights with swords,/Wings and tails and dragons with scales!" The spot art builds from a boy's imaginary play to a full spread of reality—"That's what little boys are made of...

PreS-K—Arthur has a dream to describe, but no one in his family is listening...

Gr 9 Up—La-La is a talented singer with an absent mother and a sister battling cancer; Reese, a classically trained musician, has to sneak around a strict mother to pursue a love of hip-hop; Ziggy, a talented dancer, hides his passion from his Jamaican family because he's worried they'll think he's gay; and JamaicaKincaid wants so desperately to act that she's run away from her Connecticut boarding school to try and make it in New York on her own...

K-Gr 2— In this story told in a singsong rhyme, Rose and Ed strive to learn about and catch butterflies...

Gr 8 Up—Harrington's sequel to Clarity (Scholastic, 2011) stars the highly acclaimed high school psychic and detective...