Juvenile & Young Adult / People & Places

Little Pineapple, the little Hawaiian truck discovers the sugar cane trains

by Karl Joseph Hill & Scott Thomas Lowe

The book is a children fictional story about discovering and preserving a segment of Hawaii's past pertaining to sugar cane trains. Telling first of the trains' abandonment, then being discovered thereby creating...

The Ugly One

by Leanne Statland Ellis

At the height of the Incan empire, a girl called the Ugly One because of a disfiguring scar on her face, seeks to have the scar removed and instead finds a life path as a shaman.

Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet

by Kashmira Sheth

Jeeta’s family is caught up in the whirlwind of arranging marriages for her two older sisters, but the drama and excitement leave Jeeta cold. Even though tradition demands the parade of suitors, the marriage...

Parched

by Melanie Crowder

A mesmerizing debut middle-grade novel about a boy, a girl, and a dog struggling to survive in a land without water.

On Little Wings

by Regina Sirois

Jennifer is an only child, and so were her parents-at least that's what she thinks, until she finds an old photo in the back of one of her mother's books. The woman in the photo looks just like Jennifer, down...

The Pool Party

by Gary Soto

Rudy Herrera is surprised and excited when he  gets an invitation to a pool party. It's from Tiffany  Perez, the richest and most popular girl in  school.

Rudy's grandmother, "El  Shorty," thinks he is...

The Year of the Baby

by Andrea Cheng & Patrice Barton

In the fully-illustrated sequel to The Year of the Book, Anna's family adopts a baby from China. When her new sister fails to thrive, Anna and her best friends Laura and Camille create a science project...

Sugar

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack...

Waiting for the Biblioburro

by Monica Brown & John Parra

Ana loves stories. She often makes them up to help her little brother fall asleep. But in her small village there are only a few books and she has read them all. One morning, Ana wakes up to the clip-clop of...

What Can You Do with a Paleta?

by Carmen Tafolla & Magaly Morales

Where the paleta wagon rings its tinkly belland carries a treasure of icy paletasin every color of the sarape . . .

As she strolls through her barrio, a young girl introduces readers to the frozen, fruit-flavored...

The Boy and the Tigers

by Helen Bannerman & Valeria Petrone

When a little boy named Rajani ventures into the jungle, he runs into several tigers who make him give them his fine new red coat, blue trousers, purple shoes with crimson linings, and even his green umbrella!...

The Milk of Birds

by Sylvia Whitman

This timely, heartrending novel tells the moving story of a friendship between two girls: one an American teen, one a victim of the crisis in Darfur.

Know that there are many words behind the few on this paper…...

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Babies, Burglars, and Other Bumps in the Night

by Lenore Look & Leuyen Pham

Readers will herald the return of their favorite phobic boy in this, the fifth book in the beloved Alvin Ho series. Alvin's mother has been getting bigger . . . and bigger. Alvin's sure it's all the mochi cakes...

The Vine Basket

by Josanne La Valley

Mehrigul, 14, is a Uyghur, a tribal group scorned by the Chinese communist regime. Against obstacles that include her embittered father and her obligations to their farm, she has three weeks to make the baskets...

Stolen

by John Wilson

Fifteen-year-old Sam solves a mystery while treasure-hunting on the Australian coast.

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

by Meg Medina

In Meg Medina's compelling new novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school - and must discover resources she never knew she had. One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that...

The Keysha Diaries, Volume One: Keysha's Drama\If I Were Your Boyfriend

by Earl Sewell

Do you know Keysha Kendall?

Enter the world of the Keysha and Friends series—for the first time, the two original stories in this compelling series are collected into one special volume.

Keysha's Drama

Sixteen-year-old...

Undertown

by Melvin Jules Bukiet

In this fast-paced adventure story, Timothy and Jessamyn are towed through the streets of Manhattan riding in Timothy’s family’s sailboat, on their way to the Long Island shore, when the boat comes unhitched...

Tags

by Walter Dean Myers

From Walter Dean Myers, the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, comes an all-new 20-page one-act play. Tags is a look at life and death in New York City, complete with a shocking end.

Four New York...

Words In The Dust

by Trent Reedy

In the tradition of SHABANU, DAUGHTER OF THE WIND and THE BREADWINNER, a beautiful debut about a daughter of Afghanistan discovering new friends and opportunities after the defeat of the Taliban. Zulaikha hopes....