Best friends Sketty and Meatball do everything together. They play together. They bark together. If Sketty sniffs a flower, Meatball sniffs a flower too. If Meatball wags his tail, Sketty’s tail is wagging too.
Young readers will be delighted by two pals called Sketty and Meatball, who happen to look quite a bit like their names.
Sketty and Meatball is a Level One I Can Read book, which means it’s perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the short sentences, familiar words, and simple concepts of Level One books support success for children eager to start reading on their own.
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A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor–winning author Christine Day (Upper Skagit), about a girl whose hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples’ Day (and plans to ask her crush to the school dance) go all wrong—until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at an intertribal powwow.
Wesley is proud of the poem she wrote for Indigenous Peoples’ Day—but the reaction from a teacher makes her wonder if expressing herself is important enough. And due to the specific tribal laws of her family’s Nation, Wesley is unable to enroll in the Upper Skagit tribe and is left feeling “not Native enough.” Through the course of the novel, with the help of her family and friends, she comes to embrace her own place within the Native community.
Christine Day's debut, I Can Make This Promise, was an American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award Honor Book, was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, School Library Journal, the Chicago Public Library, and NPR, and was also picked as a Charlotte Huck Honor Book. Her sophomore novel, The Sea in Winter, was an American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award Honor Book, as well as named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and School Library Journal.
We Still Belong is an accessible, enjoyable, and important novel from an author who always delivers.
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Powerful and compelling, this high-stakes, feminist reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood is perfect for fans of Stephanie Garber and Meagan Spooner.
For as long as sixteen-year-old Adele can remember, the village of Oakvale has been surrounded by the dark wood—a forest filled with terrible monsters. A forest that light itself cannot penetrate.
Unlike her fellow villagers, Adele cannot avoid the dark wood.
Adele is one of a long line of guardians: women who secretly take on the form of a wolf, in order to protect their village.
But when accepting her fate means giving up the boy she loves, abandoning the future she imagined for herself, and breaking her own moral code, she must decide how far she is willing to go to keep her neighbors safe.
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Bestselling author of Scythe and Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman, here with coauthors Debra Young and Michelle Knowlden, tells an intense yet tender story of two teens, trapped in impossible circumstances and unjust systems, willing to risk everything for love—no matter the consequences.
Adriana knows that if she can manage to keep her head down for the next seven months, she might be able to get through her sentence in the Compass juvenile detention center. Thankfully, she’s allowed to keep her journal, where she writes down her most private thoughts when her feelings get too big.
Until the day she opens her journal and discovers that her thoughts are no longer so private. Someone has read her writings—and has written back. A boy who lives on the other side of the gender-divided detention center. A boy who sparks a fire in her to write back.
Jon’s story is different than Adriana’s; he’s already been at Compass for years and will be in the system for years to come. Still, when he reads the words Adriana writes to him, it makes him feel like the walls that hold them in have melted away.
This fast-paced, highly compelling tour de force novel exposes what life is like in detention—and reveals the hearts of two teens who are forced to live in desperate circumstances.
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Two young artists have a chance meeting on the last night of summer arts camp in this YA novel in verse and dialogue cowritten by acclaimed authors Jeff Zentner and Brittany Cavallaro.
Jude loves photography, and he’s good at it, too. Between his parents’ divorce and his anxiety, being behind a camera is the only time his mind is quiet.
Florence is confronting the premature end of her dance career as a degenerative eye disease begins to steal her balance. She’s having a hard time letting go.
The two meet at Sunrise Night, their sleepaway art camp’s dusk-to-dawn closing celebration, and decide to take a chance on each other. Their one rule: No contact for a year after the sun has risen. Over the course of three Sunrise Nights, will Florence and Jude find a deeper connection and learn who they are—and who they could be together?
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Perfect for fans of Ben Philippe and Mary H. K. Choi, this charming, insightful YA novel follows two high school students who form a complicated, ground-shifting bond while filming a movie.
High school junior Felix Ma wants to prove to his parents that he’s not a quitter. After crashing out of piano lessons and competitive ping-pong, Felix starts a film club at his school in a last-ditch attempt to find a star extracurricular for his college applications.
Then he meets Cassie Chow, a bubbly high school senior who shares Felix’s anxieties about the future and complicated relationship with parental expectations. Felix feels drawn to Cassie for reasons he can’t quite articulate, so as an excuse to see her more, he invites Cassie to star in his short film.
The project starts out as a lighthearted mockumentary. But at the urging of Felix’s college admissions coach, who wants to turn the film into essay material, it soon morphs into a serious drama about the emotional scars that parents leave on their kids. As Felix and Cassie uncover their most painful memories, Cassie starts to balk at opening her wounds for the camera.
With his parents and college admissions coach hot on his heels, Felix discovers painful truths about himself and his past—and must decide whether pleasing his parents is worth losing his closest friend.
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‘They should fear me, the power I possessed, and the bright, ravenous
rage that now fuelled my every breath… Even I did not know what I was
capable of.’
Lady Morgan surveys her life at Camelot: an unhappy marriage and a
vengeful husband determined to keep their son from his queen’s clutches, a
true love she can’t be with, a jealous rival in magician Merlin who has the ear
of Morgan’s half-brother King Arthur, and strange but wonderful powers of
her own she is still exploring.
As tensions rise within the castle, happiness seems an impossible dream
until Morgan dares to break the shackles of expectation those around her
insist upon.
But this path to great joy comes at a terrible cost, and before long Morgan
must understand it’s a price to be exacted in rich, red blood. Rising from the
ashes of desperation, she emerges hard, crystalline and unforgiving - now
she is Morgan Le Fay. And hate is in her heart...
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From the author of bestselling Oi Frog! comes an absurdly funny and
heartwarming lift-the-flap picture book about two giraffe friends, who are out
on a walk together.
Meet Torla, the taller-than-average giraffe, and Smorla, who’s… well, smaller than
average. Right at the very beginning of their walk, Torla’s longer-than-average neck
gets stuck in a very stubborn cloud. These loveable giraffes have to work together,
with Smorla guiding Torla past some very funny obstacles…
Featuring three lazy lions, two bingo-playing hippos, a silly sunbathing
elephant and more, this book is full of uproarious deadpan humour that will have
kids and grownups giggling as they turn the pages.
This is the first book in a new laugh-out-loud series by Kes Gray, with bright,
humorous drawings from award-winning illustrator Chris Jevons.
As well as being a very amusing read, The Lower than Average Cloud teaches children
the importance of being considerate and helpful to others, as Smorla helps her
friend Torla out of a tricky situation.
At times whimsical, at others hilarious, this series by Kes Gray follows the characters
Torla and Smorla, who enjoy a very unlikely friendship. One is a taller-than-average
giraffe, the other is a shorter-than-average giraffe! Join them on their adventures as
the love and trust they share take their companionship to new heights.
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These stickers are so cute, they’re creepy! Adorn notebooks, water bottles, and laptops with colorful creatures that are sweet AND spooky! Skulls, ghosts, vampires, and other adorable monsters are perfect for Halloween, arts and crafts, party favors, and eerie everyday fun.
THE EMOTIONAL AND LIFE-AFFIRMING NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP TRANSLATED FROM JAPANESE BY ERIC OZAWA
In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood w ith the highest number of bookstores in the w orld. It is called Jimbocho w here book lovers can brow se to their heart's delight and w here hunters of first editions or autographed copies prow l the bookcases. The Morisaki bookshop, a small family-run shop, is so packed w ith books that barely five people can fit inside. Books crow d the shelves and invade every corner of the floor; w hen a customer arrives, the ow ner, Satoru, immediately pops out from behind the counter. Recently, his w ife Momoko has joined him, and often, in her free time after w ork, their niece Takako also helps out.
For the first time, the girl does not feel lonely; she has new friends and new rituals to keep her company: the annual Jimbocho festival, the café around the corner, or an unexpected visitor. Because, as she has discovered, a bookstore is populated not by the characters contained in the books, but also by those w ho frequent it. And those stories create bonds.
As a sign of gratitude, Takako gives her aunt and uncle a trip, promising to look after the shop w hile they are aw ay. Everything seems to be going sw immingly, but then w hy is Satoru behaving so strangely? And w hat does that w oman w ith the red umbrella w ant w ho has appeared at the end of the street? How many other stories, emotions, and treasures does the Morisaki bookshop hold? Loved by thousands of readers worldwide, More Day s at the Morisaki Bookshop is a story of hope, friendship and the healing power of books. Will we see you in the bookshop this summer?
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