New Children's Books

Look! A Book! - Bob Staake
Easy-to-read, rhyming text invites the reader to search for items on a different theme on each page, while celebrating the wonder of a picture book.



Mother Goose Picture Puzzles - Will Hillenbrand
Nursery rhymes are presented in the form of rebuses.

New Audiobooks

Toby Alone - Timothee de Fombelle
Toby Lolness may be just one and a half millimeters tall, but he's the most wanted person in his world, the world of the great oak Tree. Toby's father has made a groundbreaking discovery: the Tree itself is alive, glowing with vital energy, and there may even be a world beyond it. Greedy developers itch to exploit this forbidden knowledge, risking permanent damage to their natural world. But Toby's father has refused to reveal his findings, causing the family to be exiled to the lower branches. Only Toby has managed to escape, but for how long? And how can he bear to leave his parents to their terrible fate?


Toby and the Secrets of the Tree - Timothee de Fombelle
Thirteen-year-old Toby's tiny world is under greater threat than ever as Leo Blue holds Elisha prisoner while hunting the Grass People and anyone who stands in the way of his devastating plans for the oak Tree in which they all live, but this time Toby is not alone.


Surprises According to Humphrey - Betty G. Birney
A classroom hamster has to be ready for anything, but suddenly there are LOTS-LOTS-LOTS of big surprises in Humphreys' world. Some are exciting, such as a new hamster ball. But some are scary, such as a run-in with a cat and a new janitor who might be form another planet. Even with all that's going on, Humphrey finds time to help his classmates with their problems. But will Mrs. Brisbane's unsqueakable surprise be too much for Humphrey to handle?


Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat - Lynne Jonell
When Emmy discovers that she and her formerly loving parents are being drugged by their evil nanny with rodent potions that can change people in frightening ways, she and some new friends must try everything possible to return things to normal.


The Six Rules of Maybe - Deb Caletti
Scarlet, an introverted high school junior surrounded by outcasts who find her a good listener, learns to break old patterns and reach for hope when her pregnant sister moves home with her new husband, with whom Scarlet feels an instant connection.

New Posters

Reading a Map
The elements of a map are defined and their uses explained. Back of chart features reproducible activities, subject information, and helpful tips. 17" x 22" classroom size.


Geography Terms
Illustrates various geographic terms and land forms. Includes reproducible activity guides.


Civil Rights Events
Contains pictures of various civil rights events in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. Includes reproducible activity guides.


Pledge of Allegiance
Contains the Pledge of Allegiance on one side and reproducible activity sheets on the other.


Presidents of the United States
Displays pictures of all United States Presidents from George Washington through Barack Obama on one side and reproducible activity sheets on the other.


United States Government
Illustrates the three branches of the United States government on one side, with reproducible activity sheets on the other.


The Continents
Illustrates the continents of the world on one side with reproducible activity sheets on the other.


Community Helpers
Illustrates various community helpers and occupations on one side witrh reproducible activity sheets on the other.


Sign Language
Illustrates the American Manual Alphabet of American Sign Language on one side, with reproducible activity sheets on the other.


Periodic Table of the Elements
Illustrates the Periodic Table of the Elements on one side, with reproducible activity sheets on the other.


Five Senses
Illustrates the five senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste) on one side, with reproducible activity sheets on the other.


Money
Illustrates United States coinage (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar, dollar) on one side, with reproducible activity sheets on the other.


MyPyramid
Illustrates the new food pyramid on one side, with reproducible activity sheets on the other.


Solar System
Illustrates the solar system (inner planets, outer planets, dwarf planets) on one side, with reproducible activity sheets on the other.


Cross Section of the Earth
Illustrates the various layers of the earth (inner core, core, mantle, crust) on one side, with reproducible activity sheets on the other.


Water Cycle
Illustrates the phases of the water cycle (precipitation, collection, evaporation, and condensation) as well as surface runoff, percolation, groundwater, fresh water, salt water, and transpiration, on one side, with reproducible activity sheets on the other.

New Mathematics Teaching Aid

Three Bear Family Counters
Contains 96 bear-shaped counters in 3 sizes, 3 weights, and 6 colors. Includes 24 Papa, 24 Mama and 48 Baby Bear counters.

New YA Books

Between Shades of Gray - Ruta Sepetys
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.


I Am J - Chris Beam
J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.


Chime - Franny Billingsley
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.


Young Fredle - Cynthia Voigt
Fredle, a young mouse cast out of his home, faces dangers and predators outside, makes some important discoveries and allies, and learns the meaning of freedom as he struggles to return home.


The Romeo and Juliet Code - Phoebe Stone
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.


Virals - Kathy Reichs
Tory Brennan is the leader of a band of teenage 'sci-philes' who live on an island off the coast of South Carolina and when the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.


Blink & Caution - Tim Wynne-Jones
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.


Tall Story - Candy Gourlay
Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and suffers from a condition called Gigantism, leaves the Philipines to live with his mother's family in London, much to the delight of his thirteen-year-old half sister Andi, a passionate basketball player.


Pegasus - Robin McKinley
Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylvi is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday, but the closeness of their bond becomes a threat to the status quo and possibly to the safety of their two nations.


Freedom Stone - Jeffrey Kluger
With the help of a magical stone from Africa, a thirteen-year-old slave travels to the battle of Vicksburg to clear her father's name and free her family from bondage.


Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court - Marc Aronson
A series of short stories by such authors as Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Joseph Bruchac, interspersed with poems and photographs, provides different perspectives on a game of streetball played one steamy July day at the West 4th Street court in New York City known as The Cage.


Angry Young Man - Chris Lynch
Eighteen-year-old Robert tries to help his half-brother Xan, a seventeen-year-old misfit, to make better choices as he becomes increasingly attracted to a variety of protesters, anarchists, and the like.


Strings Attached - Judy Blundell
When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.

New Children's Books

What's for Dinner?: Quirky, Squirmy Poems from the Animal World - Katherine B. Hauth
Describes in poetic verse the predatory habits of a variety of animals and the foods that they eat.


All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel - Dan Yaccarino
Dan Yaccarino tells the story of his family's experiences in the United States since his great-grandfather came to America from Italy through Ellis Island.


Where's Walrus? - Stephen Savage
In this wordless picture book, follow Walrus on a happy-go-lucky spree through the big city, as he tries on different hats to disguise himself from the chasing zookeeper.


Miss Lina's Ballerinas - Grace Maccarone
Ballet instructor Miss Lina has a solution when her eight students, who always dance in pairs, are distraught when a ninth girl joins the class.


One Fine Trade - Bobbi Miller
Georgy Piney Woods, the best peddler who ever lived, makes several trades so his daughter can buy a wedding dress.


Spring Is Here - Will Hillenbrand
Excited that spring has finally arrived, Mole tries--unsuccessfully--to wake up Bear, but then he comes up with the perfect plan.


The Secret Box - Barbara Lehman
A young schoolboy from the early twentieth century hides a candy box with secret instructions in the floorboards of his boarding school for future generations of schoolchildren to find and follow to a mysterious hidden place. Story without words.


Can We Save the Tiger? - Martin Jenkins
The tiger is just one of thousands of animals -- including the ground iguana, the white-rumped vulture, and the partula snail -- currently in danger of becoming extinct, joining the dodo, the marsupial wolf, the great auk, and countless others we will never see again.


For the Love of Music: The Remarkable Story of Maria Anna Mozart - Elizabeth Rusch
Maria Mozart, like her famous brother Wolfgang, was a musical prodigy. The talented siblings toured Europe, playing before kings and empresses, were showered with gifts and favors, and lived in a whirlwind life of music and travel. As they grew older, Wolfgang was encouraged to pursue his musical ambitions, while Maria was told she must stop performing and, ultimately, marry. But she was determined to continue playing the piano every day, for the love of music.


The Great Migration: Journey to the North - Eloise Greenfield
Describes the period of the 20th century when many African Americans left the South to make better lives for themselves in the nothern states.


Hip-Pocket Papa - Sandra Markle
When the eggs of the hip-pocket frog hatch, the father sits "while the tadpoles wiggle up his hind legs and into the hidden pockets on his hips." But that is only the beginning of a fascinating adventure--the father must evade predators while searching for the perfect place for his froglets to emerge.  Charlotte Zolotow Honor


Soccer Hour - Carol Nevius
Pictures and rhyming text describe the drills and scrimmages of a team at soccer practice.


The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred - Samantha R. Vamos
A cumulative tale of a farm maiden who, aided by a group of animals, prepares "Arroz con Leche," or rice pudding. Includes recipe and glossary of the Spanish words that are woven throughout the text.


The Queen of France - Tim Wadham
Rose wakes up one morning feeling royal and, donning jewels and a crown, she seeks her parents who behave as her royal subjects, causing Rose to wonder what they would think if the queen traded places with their daughter.