Juvenile & Young Adult / People & Places

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...

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...

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...

Not a Chance

by Michelle Mulder

Dian is outraged when her fourteen-year-old Dominican friend announces that she is engaged to be married.

Bumduggle Davis Joins the Dots : or It's All There in Black and White

by Gail Luck

Synopsis:

This nonstop action trilogy about high school students concludes with Bumduggle Davis Joins the Dots: or It's All There in Black and White.

Bumduggle (Barry) Davis and his best mate, Truong, are...

The Great Wall of Lucy Wu

by Wendy Wan-Long Shang

A humorous and heartwarming debut about split cultural identities, and all the ways life fails to go according to plan for sixth-grader Lucy Wu. Lucy Wu, aspiring basketball star and interior designer, is on...

Warbird

by Jennifer Maruno

In 1647, ten-year-old Etienne yearns for a life of adventure. He meets an orphan destined to for Fort Sainte-Marie. Making the most impulsive decision of his life, Etienne replaces the orphan and paddles off...

Warsaw Spring

by Heather Kirk

Eva is a seventeen-year-old from Edmonton in 1979 who is experiencing a world of trouble at home. To escape the trouble, she decides to visit her family's homeland of Poland for the summer, staying with an older...

Trial By Fire

by Sheila Dalton

Raised by a white mother and never having known his native father, Nathan must cope with prejudice and stereotypes. When he meets Sally, he finds someone who believes in him. But when Sally's house torched by...

Under the Moonlit Sky

by Nav K. Gill

Its the spring of 1984 and life is getting exciting for young and beautiful Esha. However, one day changes everything, and she must fulfill her fathers last wish, taking her to a place she never dreamed of visiting:...

Broken Circle

by Christopher Dinsdale

Jesse, a twelve-year-old boy of Native American descent, grudgingly follows through with his deceased father's request that he join his uncle on a special camping trip. During their first night around the campfire,...

Trouble on the Voyage

by Bob Barton

The Henrietta Maria has been trapped in the Hudson Strait for two months finally breaking free August 6, 1631 to search for a northwest passage. The crew knows it must leave Hudson Bay by early October to avoid...

Stolen Away

by Christopher Dinsdale

Keira, kidnapped from Ireland by Vikings, is a slave living in legendary Vinland. Two native bands, the Beothuck and the Thule, are also fighting over the land, thrusting the Norsemen into war. While the Vikings...

Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum

by Robert A. Parker

Regardless of whether they’ve heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful and energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world...