Summer: the time when you and your younger sisters travel to California by yourselves, meet the mother who abandoned you years ago, and learn about solidarity and defending your rights from the local Black Panthers.
Sarah
Theodora’s late grandfather was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When she discovers a valuable painting in the old town house she maintains, there are more questions than answers. A wonderful friendship begins, the Monuments Men play a role and old New York comes to life. A delightful read for anyone interested in art, history or just a great story with very real characters.
Carol
First-time author and illustrator Gemma Mernio makes it hard to decide which is more charming, her drawings or her text. This book is fun right from the start, and ends with a delightful surprise!
Robin
Colorful, fun, educational and made of tough stuff for the less careful little hands. Adorable too.
Susannah
16-year-old James hugs trees, YAWPs like Walt Whitman, and talks to an imaginary pigeon in order to cope with chronic depression and a tough situation at home. Equally heartbreaking and heartwarming.
Susannah B
A history book, travel guide, and boyhood memoir all crafted into a beautifully drawn book from our favorite aardvark artist.
Susannah B
Being beaten up and kicked off the spaceship by the head of your colony is bad enough. But now Tula's stuck on a space station out in the galactic boondocks. As a human, she's only a minor species there, practically below notice. She knows how to survive, and that means she's ready to take her revenge.
Sarah
He lives a quiet life in the reference section of an antiquarian bookstore until chased into fiction by the bookstore cat. Here the bookstore mouse reads himself into a medieval tale complete with a fire-breathing dragon! But with characters named Cervantes, Goliard, Chaucer, and Censor, is this really just a tale of adventure?
Robin
Everyone needs this book right now. SPRING is coming. With simple, colorful illustrations and text, Jorey Hurley follows the life of a hatchling over the course of a year. Young children will enjoy learning the word that goes with each picture and imagining that there will be green leaves soon!! Adults will like that too!!!!
Carol
In The Bag is the story of Margaret Knight the inventor of the first machine to fold & glue paper bags. It wasn't easy though. She had to prove it was her idea, when someone else tried to patent it after seeing her first model. During her life she had over twenty patents to her name and ninety inventions.
Robert
