Get your passport to adventure this summer with the help of two determined bears, a Dungeons & Dragons club, and a trip to the afterlife.
Picture Books
An unhurried fishing trip, with blueberry scones in tow, introduces a new bear duo sure to charm fans of Little Bear and Frog and Toad.
Follow a blue whale’s enormous body to the bottom of the ocean, where it sets the stage for a bustling new ecosystem to flourish.
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Whish! Whoosh! When the river rises, Turtle-Turtle needs his friends’ help reaching higher ground in this epic, but ultimately reassuring, ode to friendship and resilience.
Graphic Novels
Growing pains, adventure, and 20-sided dice abound in this new graphic novel series about a middle school Dungeon & Dragons club from Eisner and Harvey award-winning cartoonist Scott Kurtz.
Meet the new cowgirl and her T. Rex pardner delivering delightful laughs and rollicking adventure along with their packages from a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner.
Middle Grade
A richly imagined fantasy where a young selkie girl must save her family from a vengeful king.
In this historical fiction account by bestselling author Dan Gutman, five kids who watched the Needle at each phase of its history recount the daring story of how something that seemed to be impossible—and that nearly ended in disaster—finally succeeded against all odds.
Hilarious, non-stop adventure, a mysterious jewel heist, and a detective team like no other make this a must-have middle grade series starter.
Read the Series!
Book #2: S.O.S. and Book #3: The Peruvian Express
Young Adult
Coming of age in the afterlife is as hard as it sounds. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this inventive queer romance asks what it means to be truly happy.
Tess lives for swimming: the feel of the pool’s rough edge on her toes, the snap of cold water on her skin, and the push of her limbs ever forward. In the water, she’s truly alive. But with one word, Tess’s world could be completely undone: Epilepsy.
The town of Wolf Ridge calls him The Smiley Face Killer. Bettina Holland calls him her father.
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