Wildflower

By (author) Melanie Brown
Illustrated by Sara Gillingham
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

The Rainbow Fish for kids who love the garden. A moving picture book for ages 3 to 8 about a daisy who is told she’s “just a weed”—and embarks on a journey to find her place in the garden.

Daisy ...

A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid

By (author) Sara O'Leary
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

In this companion to the enormously popular A Family Is a Family Is a Family, a group of kids share the silly questions they always hear, as well as the questions they would much rather be asked about ...

Finding Home

By (author) Jen Sookfong Lee
Illustrated by Drew Shannon
Categories: Children’s / Teenage social issues: Migration and refugees
Series: Orca Think

People have always searched for a place to call home. In this book we explore the history of human migration, the current issues facing immigrants and refugees today, and the stories of people who have ...

No Vacancy

By (author) Tziporah Cohen
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn’t eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman’s dream, but at least it’s an adventure. But when it becomes clear that only a miracle ...

This Place

By (author) Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Sonny Assu, Brandon Mitchell, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Jen Storm, Richard Van Camp, Katherena Vermette & Chelsea Vowel
Illustrated by Tara Audibert & Kyle Charles & GMB Chomichuk & Natasha Donovan & Scott B. Henderson & Andrew Lodwick & Scott A. Ford & Donovan Yaciuk & Ryan Howe & Jen Storm
Foreword by Alicia Elliott
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Explore the past 150 years through the eyes of Indigenous creators in this groundbreaking graphic novel anthology. Beautifully illustrated, these stories are an emotional and enlightening journey through ...

Yellow Dog

By (author) Miriam Körner
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Jeremy lives in a small community where winters are long and stray dogs roam the streets. When peer pressure leads Jeremy into a bad prank, he is immediately struck with guilt — and that's when his ...

Anna Carries Water

By (author) Olive Senior
Illustrated by Laura James
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction

Anna fetches water from the spring every day, but she can’t carry it on her head like her older brothers and sisters. In this charming and poetic family story set in Jamaica, Commonwealth Prize-winning ...

Nightwalker

By (author) K.V. Johansen
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
Series: The Warlocks of Talverdin

After his guardian dies, Maurey is reduced from student to unpaid servant at his grammar school and bullied because of his black hair and eyes, which make him look as if he is related to the sorcerers ...

Genocide

By (author) Jane Springer
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction
Series: Groundwork Guides

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have ...

The Underground Reporters

By (author) Kathy Kacer
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past
Series: The Holocaust Remembrance Series for Young Readers

In a quiet village in Czechoslovakia, laws restricted the freedom of Jewish people during WWII. A small plot of land by the river was allocated to the village’s Jewish youth, and it was here that some ...