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Way Up and Over Everything

by McGill, Alice

In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.

The Retired Kid

by Agee, Jon

"It's been a wonderful eight years, but I need a break." At the Happy Sunset Retirement Community, there's Ethel, Myrtle, Harvey, and Tex. And then there's Bri...

Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln

by George, Judith W. & St George, Judith & Faulkner, Matt

Growing up poor in the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana, Abraham Lincoln lost his mother before he was ten. But Sally Johnston, who married Abe's father a yea...

Knock, Knock!

by Not Available

The knock-knock joke: a kid classic. So many funny, punny punchlines. It was just screaming for its own book. To do this classic joke justice, we decided to ga...

Soupy Saturdays with the Pain & the Great One

by Blume, Judy

Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featurin...

Merry Un-Christmas

by Reiss, Mike

Noelle celebrates the only day in Christmas City that is not Christmas by undecorating the tree, greeting the postman, and going to school.

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You

Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together

by Hoberman, Mary Ann

Classic Mother Goose rhymes in color-coded typography let young children read along with an adult.

My Best Friend

by Rodman, Mary Ann

Six-year-old Lily has a best friend all picked out for play group day, but unfortunately the differences between first-graders and second-graders are sometimes...

Brothers in Hope

The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan

by Williams, Mary L. & Christie, Gregory

Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds of miles seeking safety in Ethi...

The great cake bake

by Ketteman, Helen & Collins, Matt

When her town hosts a Fourth of July cake competition, Donna Rae tries to bake the best cake ever, but with every patriotic confection she makes, something goe...