New Children's and YA Books

The Unsinkable Walker Bean - Aaron Renier
Walter Bean is happiest when he gets to spend time tinkering on his inventions in his grandfather's workshop, but when his grandfather acquires a curse, Walter must embark on dangerous quest to return a pearl skull to the witches who made it.

The Carnival of the Animals - Jack Prelutsky
Fresh, new animal portraits with words that enhance Saint-Saën's music.

Man Gave Names to All the Animals - Jim Arnosky
Based on a song by Bob Dylan, tells the story of how man named the animals of the world.

Scaredy-Cat, Splat! - Rob Scotton
Splat the cat accidently succeeds in being the scariest cat in the class for Halloween.

Pinkalicious: Tickled Pink - Victoria Kann
When Tiffany challenges her to a laugh-off, Pinkalicious is determined to come up with the all-time funniest joke.

Amelia Bedelia's First Apple Pie - Herman Parish
While visiting her grandparents, literal-minded Amelia Bedelia finally learns, despite some mishaps, how to bake an apple pie.

Peter Pan (Pop-up book) - J.M. Barrie
A retelling of the adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.

New YA Books

Sabotaged (The Missing: Book 3) - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.

Butterfly - Sonya Hartnett
In 1980s Australia, nearly fourteen-year-old Ariella "Plum" Coyle fears the disapproval of her friends, feels inferior to her older brothers, and hates her awkward, adolescent body but when her glamorous neighbor befriends her, Plum starts to become what she wants to be--until she discovers her neighbor's ulterior motive.

What Happened on Fox Street - Tricia Springstubb
Fox Street means everything to Mo Wren, who is nearly eleven, and so she is very upset when a land developer offers to buy her father's house, especially since she has not yet found the fox she is sure lives in the nearby ravine.

New Teaching Aids

French Vocabulary Flash Cards
Contains 1000 flash cards covering a range of topics.

Spanish Vocabulary Flash Cards
Contains 1000 flash cards covering a range of topics.

Syl-la-bles Game
Players must think of the longest and most difficult (correctly spelled) words that begin with the letter on the spaces they land on. For 2-8 players, ages 8 to adult.

Know the States! Game
Players answer geography-based questions as they race around a map of the United States. Players select questions appropriate for 3rd and 4th grades or for 5th, 6th, and 7th grades. For 2 or more players, ages 8 and up.

Loose Change
Taking turns, each player attempts to add cards to previously played cards that will then add up to $1.00. For 2-6 players, ages 6 and up.

Geo-Bingo Game
Players use bingo cards that show the names and maps of various countries. As cards are drawn, players cover that country on their cards. The cards contain information about the country, including population, area, and its continent, and display a map that shows surrounding countries. For 2-8 players.

Abacus
Use of an abacus can teach color and pattern recognition, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It encourages problem-solving and improves hand/eye coordination. Includes extension activities guide. For ages 3 and up.

Ohio Timeline
Shows 48 important events in the history of Ohio from 1669 to 2012. Correlates with Ohio's Academic Content Standards.

Favorite Animals Photographic Learning Cards
Contains 45 photocards (4.25" x 5.5") featuring animals, birds, reptiles, and fish from around the world. Includes resource guide in English, Spanish, and French. For grades PreK-Grade 1 and for English language language learners.

Alphabet: Signs, Letters, Sounds
Contains 26 alphabet cards (5.5" x 8.5") showing the upper case and lower case letters, the sign language for each letter, and a picture of an object beginning with each letter.

Emotions Photographic Learning Cards
Contains 22 photo cards (5.5" x 8.5") of young children demonstrating different emotions. Includes activity guide in English, Spanish, and French. For grades PreK-1 and for English language learners.

Chunky Puzzle: Shapes
Contains 8 different shapes of various colors: circle, square, diamond, rectangle, triangle, heart, star, and oval.

Counting Peg Puzzle
Peg puzzle displaying the numbers 0-9, with pictures under the pieces. For ages 2 and up.
 
Alphabet Peg Puzzle
Alphabet peg puzzle, includes pictures under the letters. For ages 3 and up.

New Children's and YA Books

Clever Jack Takes the Cake - Candace Fleming
A poor boy named Jack struggles to deliver a birthday present worthy of the princess.

Scumble - Ingrid Law
Mibs's cousin Ledge is disappointed to discover that his "savvy"--the magical power unique to each member of their family--is to make things fall apart, which endangers his uncle Autry's ranch and reveals the family secret to future reporter Sarah.

Between Two Kingdoms - Joe Boyd
In this work of allegorical fantasy, author Joe Boyd takes us on a pilgrimage to a land of two kingdoms, but only one true King. An ancient land, where children never grow old. A living land, where foundations grow in trees and rivers sing and breathe. But also a dying land, where the darkness of a false prince threatens to swallow everything in its shadow.  Enter the adventure with Tommy, a child of the Great King, as he and his friends accept the challenge to live as grown men and women in the Lower Kingdom—where hope is hidden, vision is clouded, and pride twists truth into a beautiful yet deadly deception.

New Children's and YA Books

Bedtime Bugs - David A. CarterIt's time for bed and David A. Carter's bugs help guide children through their nightly routines.

Opposites: A Bugs Pop-Up Concept Book - David A. Carter
Teaches the concept of opposites through pop-up illustrations of bugs.

Counting: A Bugs Pop-Up Concept Book - David A. Carter
Pop-up illustrations of butterflies help children learn to count.

Brain Camp - Susan Kim
Lucas and Jenna are chosen to attend a camp that promises to turn delinquents into high achieving students, but when they arrive, they realize that the camp is not what it seems.

Luv Ya Bunches - Lauren Myracle
Four friends--each named after a flower--navigate the ups and downs of fifth grade, in a story told through text messages, blog posts, screenplay, and straight narrative.

Home - Shelley Rotner
Photographs and simple text show many different kinds of homes.

New Teaching Aids

My ABCs Thumball
Players catch the ball and respond to the letter or letter combination found under their right or left thumb. Suggestions for use included on bag. For ages 3-8.

Ohio Fab Facts Fast!
spelling, true-or-false, and more. May be played as matching, trivia, or rummy-style games. For 2-30 players, ages 6 and up.

New Science Teaching Aids

Science Diction: Science Vocabulary Game
Act out, define or draw science words for other students to guess. Features 120 life, Earth and space and physical science vocabulary question cards color-coded and leveled for grades 3, 4 and 5. For 2 or more players or teams, grades 3-5.

Simple Machines
Experiment and discover basic simple machines by first building the five models (pulley, wedge, inclined plane, lever, wheel and axle) and then changing the variables to learn how machines make work easier. For ages 10 and up.

Science Lab: Earth Science, Grades 2-3
Players answer questions as they visit the Space Lab, Weather Lab, Earth Lab, and Mystery Lab. For 2-4 players, grades 2-3.

Science Lab: Life Science, Grades 2-3
Players answer questions as they visit the Plant and Animal Lab, Environmental Lab, Human Body Lab, and Mystery Lab. For 2-4 players, grades 2-3.

Science Lab: Physical Science, Grades 2-3
Players answer questions as they visit the Forces and Motion Lab, Matter Lab, Energy Lab, and Mystery Lab. For 2-4 players, grades 2-3.




Science Lab: Earth Science, Grades 4-5

Science Lab: Life Science, Grades 4-5

Science Lab: Physical Science, Grades 4-5
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

New YA Books

The Sons of Liberty - Alexander Lagos
Teenage runaway slaves with superhuman powers, a Hessian giant, the most evil slave owners imaginable, and Benjamin Franklin: this story of the Revolution blends fact and fantasy in an imaginative reinterpretation of a critical time in American history.

City of Spies - Susan Kim
Evelyn can hardly believe it when she and her new friend Tony uncover a deadly plot being carried out by Nazi spies, right in their neighborhood. Together, the two pals set out to save the day. . .and help win the war!

The Cabinet of Wonders - Marie Rutkoski
Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.

The Celestial Globe - Marie Rutkoski
Thirteen-year-old Petra, her tin spider Astrophil, and their Roma friends Neel and Tomik are surprised by revelations about Dee, Kit, and Petra's father as they face Prince Rodolfo of Bohemia, who will do anything to possess a powerful object, the Celestial Globe.

As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth - Lynne Rae Perkins
A teenaged boy encounters one comedic calamity after another when his train strands him in the middle of nowhere, and everything comes down to luck.

Chosen Ones - Alister McGrath
When Peter and Julia go to stay with their grandparents in Oxford, England, they discover a mysterious garden, which serves as a portal to a world where they are greeted as the saviors of a people enslaved by evildoers.

A Little Wanting Song - Cath Crowley
One Australian summer, two very different sixteen-year-old girls--Charlie, a talented but shy musician, and Rose, a confident student longing to escape her tiny town--are drawn into an unexpected friendship, as told in their alternating voices.

Mac Slater Hunts the Cool - Tristan Bancks
Mac, an Australian youth, has one week to prove that he can be a "coolhunter," identifying emerging trends and posting images on a website, but he is competing against a classmate on whom he has a crush and dealing with resistance from his best friend and his own confusion over what "cool" means.

Missing in Action - Dean Hughes
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

Stolen - Lucy Christopher
Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.

The View from the Top -Hillary Frank
Anabelle and her fellow high school graduates navigate their way through a disastrous summer of love and friendship in the small coastal town of Normal, Maine.

Taking Wing - Nancy Price Graff
With his father in the Army Air Corps and his mother diagnosed with tuberculosis, thirteen-year-old Gus sets out to incubate a nest of orphaned duck eggs on his grandparents' farm in Vermont.

Spells - Aprilynne Pike
Summoned to study at The Academy of Avalon, sixteen-year-old Laurel learns about the town with friend Tamani, while honing her long-forgotten skills as a Fall faerie in order to protect her human family and Avalon from trolls.

The Boneshaker - Kate Milford
When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.

How to Survive Middle School -  Donna Gephart
When thirteen-year-old David Greenberg's best friend makes the start of middle school even worse than he feared it could be, David becomes friends with Sophie, who shares his love of television shows and posts one of their skits on YouTube, making them wildly popular--online, at least.

Palace Beautiful - Sarah DeFord Williams
After her move in 1985 to Salt Lake City, thirteen-year-old Sadie finds a journal in a hidey-hole in the attic, and along with her sister and new friend she reads about the influenza epidemic of 1918.

War Horse - Michael Morpurgo
Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer - John Grisham
With two attorneys for parents, thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows more about the law than most lawyers do. But when a high profile murder trial comes to his small town and Theo gets pulled into it, it's up to this amateur attorney to save the day.

Hawksmaid: The Untold Story of Robin Hood and Maid Marian - Kathryn Lasky
In twelfth-century England, Matty grows up to be a master falconer, able to communicate with the devoted birds who later help her and Fynn, also known as Robin Hood, to foil Prince John's plot to steal the crown.

Emily's Fortune - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
While traveling to her aunt's home in Redbud by train and stagecoach, quiet young Emily and her turtle, Rufus, team up with Jackson, fellow orphan and troublemaker extraordinaire, to outsmart mean Uncle Victor, who is after Emily's inheritance.

New YA Books

The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan

The Last Best Days of Summer - Valerie Hobbs

Flash - Michael Cadnum

The Notorious Izzy Fink - Don Brown

Notes from the Dog - Gary Paulsen

Lord Sunday (The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 7) - Garth Nix

The Wager - Donna Jo Napoli

Charlie Bone and the Red Knight - Jenny Nimmo

Lies - Michael Grant

Jump - Elisa Carbone

The Necromancer - Michael Scott

The Sable Quean (a Redwall book) - Brian Jacques

Crispin: The End of Time - Avi

Spellbinder - Helen Stringer

The Shadow Hunt - Katherine Langrish

Word After Word After Word - Patricia MacLachlan

My Life with the Lincolns - Gayle Brandeis

Eli the Good - Silas House

Found - Sarah Prineas

Wondrous Strange - Lesley Livingston

The Owl Keeper - Christine Brodien-Jones

Happyface - Stephen Emond

New YA Books

The Year of Goodbyes - Debbie Levy
The author's mother's 1938 autograph book filled with inscriptions from family and friends is the inspiration for a collection of narrative poems about life in Nazi Germany for a Jewish family trying to escape the horrors.

Everything Asian - Sung J. Woo
You're twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is miserable. Your mother isn't exactly happy, either. You're seeing your father for the first time in five years, and although he's nice enough, he might be, well--how can you put this delicately?--a loser. You can't speak English, but that doesn't stop you from working at East Meets West, your father's gift shop in a strip mall, where everything is new. Welcome to the wonderful world of David Kim.  Asian/Pacific American Author Award

Afrika - Colleen Craig
For thirteen-year-old Kim, travel to South Africa with her journalist mother will mark the end of her childhood and the beginning of a remarkable journey. Expecting nothing more than three months in her mother's homeland, Kim comes to terms with the country's diverse and often shocking history. The Truth and Reconciliation Hearings in post-apartheid South Africa open her eyes to the tragedy and brutality of its segregationist policies. Kim's first meeting with her relatives, her contact with schoolmates and cousins, bring her face-to-face with the realization that she is not as removed from this powerful story as she thought. As her mother struggles with her past, Kim becomes more and more determined to unlock the secret that has always kept her from knowing her father. Helped by the young son of a long-time family servant, whose own father was a casualty of Apartheid history, Kim eventually unlocks her mystery and brings her mother and herself to their own truth and reconciliation. Layered and complex, this is a novel that raises questions and challenges beliefs.

Timothy and the Dragon's Gate - Adrienne Kress
Timothy Freshwater--a smart-aleck boy who just got expelled from the last school in the city--learns that the Chinese mail clerk at his father's office is really an enslaved dragon who, with Timothy's help, must scale the Dragon's Gate in order to resume his true form.

The Secret Fiend - Shane Peacock
1868, London: When Sherlock's friend Beatrice appears at his door late at night, claiming to have been attacked by the Spring Heeled Jack--a fictional, fire-spitting character from the Penny Dreadfuls--Sherlock assumes she's lying. Soon, however, the Jack attacks again--and Sherlock is on the case.

Jekel Loves Hyde - Beth Fantaskey
As seventeen-year-old Jill Jekel and classmate Tristen Hyde work together on a chemistry project, hoping to win a scholarship for her and a cure for his curse, they also uncover family secrets and a chemistry of their own.

The Year of Goodbyes - Debbie Levy
The author's mother's 1938 autograph book filled with inscriptions from family and friends is the inspiration for a collection of narrative poems about life in Nazi Germany for a Jewish family trying to escape the horrors.

Once - Morris Gleitzman
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.

Poetry Speaks Who I Am - Elise Paschen, ed.
Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works.

New YA Books

Sir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World - Sid Fleischman

A Newbery Medalist presents one of the most compelling rags-to-riches stories of modern times, in this biography of the legendary Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin. Includes archival prints and photos.

The Lost Children - Carolyn Cohagan
When twelve-year-old Josephine falls through a worm-hole in her garden shed into another time and place, she realizes the troubles she has at home are minor compared to what she has to tackle now in the world where she has landed.

Bamboo People - Mitali Perkins
Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.

Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials -Stephanie Hemphill
A fictionalized account, told in verse, of the Salem witch trials, told from the perspective of three young women living in Salem in 1692--Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr.

A Blue So Dark - Holly Schindler
As Missouri fifteen-year-old Aura struggles alone to cope with the increasingly severe symptoms of her mother's schizophrenia, she wishes only for a normal life, but fears that her artistic ability and genes will one day result in her own insanity.

Clementine, Friend of the Week - Sara Pennypacker
With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.

Turtle in Paradise - Jennifer L. Holm
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.

Smile - Raina Telgemeier
From sixth grade through tenth, Raina copes with a variety of dental problems that affect her appearance and how she feels about herself.

Ghostopolis - Doug TenNapel
Garth Hale is as good as dead...The only problem is he's still alive. When Garth Hale is accidentally zapped into the ghost world by Frank Gallows, a washed-up ghost wrangler, he discovers that he has special powers. Soon he finds himself on the run from the evil ruler of Ghostopolis, who wants to use Garth's newfound abilities to tighten his grip on the spirit world. After Garth meets Cecil, his grandfather's ghost, the two search for a way to get Garth back home, nearly losing hope until Frank Gallows shows up to fix his mistake.

Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

Zoobreak - Gordon Korman
After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.

The Fire Opal - Regina McBride
While invading English soldiers do battle in sixteenth-century Ireland, Maeve grows up with a mystical connection to a queen who, centuries before, faced enemies of her own.

Abby Carnelia's One & Only Magical Power - David Pogue
After eleven-year-old Abby discovers that she has a completely useless magical power, she finds herself at a magic camp where her hope of finding others like herself is realized, but when a select group is taken to a different camp, a sinister plot comes to light.

The Grimm Legacy - Polly Shulman
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.

The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin - Josh Berk
When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class.

The Space Between Trees - Katie Williams
When the body of a classmate is discovered in the woods, sixteen-year-old Evie's lies wind up involving her with the girl's best friend, trying to track down the killer.

Somebody Everybody Listens To - Suzanne Supplee
Upon graduating from high school in the tiny town of Starling, Tennessee, aspiring country singer Retta Lee Jones manages to get herself to Nashville, where, in spite of some bad luck and hard times, she tries to persevere in pursuing her dreams.

New Back-to-School Books

A Pirate's Guide to First Grade - James Preller
A young pirate and his crew embark on a grand adventure when they board the bus for the first day of first grade.

Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten? - Audrey Vernick
Although kindergarten provides unique challenges for a young buffalo, one who follows the rules and tries his best will get along fine.

Kindergarten Cat - J. Patrick Lewis
A stray cat finds a happy home in a kindergarten classroom.

New Children's Books

Bones - Steve Jenkins
A guide to human and animal skeletons provides informative comparisons while sharing such facts as the number of bones in the human body and the ways that skeletal structures work.

Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! - Grace Lin
Ling and Ting are identical twins that people think are exactly the same, but time and again they prove to be different.

The Nativity: from the Gosepls of Matthew and Luke - Ruth Sanderson
Selections from the gospels of Matthew and Luke that tell of the birth of Christ.

Sleepy, Oh So Sleepy - Denise Fleming
Depicts a number of animal babies sleeping as a mother puts her own baby to bed.

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring - Jan Greenberg
Tells the story behind the creation of "Appalachian Spring," describing Aaron Copland's composition, Martha Graham's intense choreography and Isamu Noguchi's set design.


Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot - Sy Montgomery
On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last 91 kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the millions before humans brought predators to the islands. Now on the isolated island refuge, a team of scientists is trying to restore the kakapo population.

New YA Books

Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol - Jim Krieg

Countdown - Deborah Wiles

Purple Heart - Patricia McCormick

Illyria - Elizabeth Hand

Another Faust - Daniel and Dina Nayeri

The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye - Nancy Springer

For the Win - Cory Doctorow

The Total Tragdey of a Girl Named Hamlet - Erin Dionne

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour - Morgan Matson

Sorta Like a Rock Star - Matthew Quick

Take Me with You - Carolyn Marsden

Home of the Brave - Loren Long

Max Cassidy: Escape from Shadow Island - Paul Adam

House of Dolls - Francesca Lia Block

The Shadows - Jacqueline West

New Children's Books

Gumption! - Elise Broach

The Tallest of Smalls - Max Lucado

City Dog, Country Frog - Mo Willems

Kindergarten Diary - Antoinette Portis


Oh No! (or How My Science Project Destroyed the World) - Mac Barnett

What the Ladybug Heard - Julia Donaldson

The Ugly Duckling - Sebastien Braun

Sleepover at Gramma's House - Barbara Joosse

All Star!  Honus Wagner and the Most Famous Baseball Card Ever - Jane Yolen

Moon Bear - Brenda Z. Guiberson

Firehouse! - Mark Teague

I Can Be Anything! - Jerry Spinelli

Baby Shower - Jane Breskin Zalben

Child of the Civil Rights Movement - Paula Young Shelton

The Village Garage - G. Brian Karas

Star Wars - Rufus Butler Seder

Hattie the Bad - Jane Devlin

Farm - Elisha Cooper

Bear in the Air - Susan Meyers

Oh, Daddy! - Bob Shea

Pigs Make Me Sneeze! - Mo Willems

Little Oink - Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Sivu's Six Wishes - Jude Daly

Palazzo Inverso - D.B. Johnson

Miss Brooks Loves Books (and I Don't) - Barbara Bottner

Paris in the Spring with Picasso - Joan Yolleck

Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Ford - Don Mitchell

New Children's Books

Oh, the Places You'll Go Pop-Up! - Dr. Seuss

Can You See What I See?: Treasure Ship - Walter Wick

The Discovery of America (graphic format) - Geronimo Stilton

Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson - Charles R. Smith, Jr.

Do You Have a Cat? - Eileen Spinelli

Born Yesterday: Diary of a Young Journalist - James Solheim

Todd's TV - James Proimos

Hot Rod Hamster - Cynthia Lord

Little Pink Pup - Johanna Kerby

Dogs - Emily Gravett

Giant Pop-Out Ocean

New Nonfiction Books

The War to End All Wars: World War I - Russell Freedman
A narrative history of World War I for young readers that features archival photographs, and describes how advanced military weaponry impacted the course of the war.

Erased by a Tornado - Jessica Rudolph
Survivors of tornadoes share stories of the catastrophic danger they faced. Also discover what causes these natural disasters, where they occur, and how to stay safe if one is heading your way.

New Christian Children's Books

Animals of the Bible - Marie-Helene Delval
Colorful illustrations and easy-to-follow text introduce early readers to the different types of animals found in the Bible, describing how they learned about God's wisdom and love.

The Bible for Young Children - Marie-Helene Delval
An illustrated collection of stories from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, retold in simple language. Includes scripture references.

New Children's Books

Goodnight Moon ABC - Margaret Wise Brown
This comforting alphabet book links words and phrases with familiar images from everyone's favorite bedtime book, Goodnight Moon. From kittens to stars to yarn, there are so many things that can be found in the great green room. Search for them all as you learn your ABCs.

Wonder Horse: The True Story of the World's Smartest Horse - Emily Arnold McCully
A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.

Stand Straight, Ella Kate: The True Story of a Real Giant - Kate Klise
A fictionalized biography of Ella Kate Ewing, born in 1872, who was eight feet tall by the age of seventeen and who became financially independent by traveling the country for nearly twenty years appearing at museums, exhibitions, and in circus shows.

Mimi's Dada Catifesto - Shelley Jackson
In Zurich, Switzerland, an artistic cat finds the perfect owner in fellow Dadaist, Mr. Dada. Author's note provides background on the Dadaist art movement.


Seasons - Blexbolex
Explores, through brief text and illustrations, various aspects of each season of the year.


I'm the Best - Lucy Cousins

When Dog's constant boasting makes his friends sad, they find a way to teach him what it means to be a good friend.


Bridget's Beret - Tom Lichtenfeld
When Bridget loses the beret that provides her with artistic inspiration like other great artists, she thinks she will never be able to draw again.

The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe - Loree Griifin Burns
Bees don't just produce honey. Your food supply depends on them. Apiarist Dave Hackenberg's bees have a busy travel schedule, pollinating around the United States from February to July. So when Dave inspected four hundred of his hives and found that the bees had simply vanished, a dream team of bee scientists got to work.

The Clock without a Face - Scott Teplin
The call comes in from the shadowy Ternky Tower: 13 robberies, one on each floor, all the way up to the penthouse, where obnoxious importer Bevel Ternky has been relieved of the numbers garlanding the legendary Emerald Khroniker, his priceless, ancient clock. Readers must conduct their own investigations, scouring detailed illustrations for hidden clues and knotty puzzles.