For any schools participating in the SCBWI Read Local Challenge, here are all the books on their list! Please let us know if we can get any of them for you. We love our local authors, illustrators, schools, and teachers, and we love it when they all come together to celebrate wonderful books and share them with kids!
In this realistic and empowering tale, Carmen learns that through community and love, she can find strength in herself and maintain her connection with her Papi, who has been detained because of his immigration status. Also available in a Spanish edition, Algo Le Pas A Mi Pap Una Historia Sobre Inmigraci n y la Separaci n Familiar ISBN 9781433839504.
(This book cannot be returned.)
"A Look Back In Time: Memoir of a Military Kid in the Fifties" is a fascinating, insightful, inspiring, and sometimes hilarious chronicle of life while growing up in a military family - Colonel Arnold R. Goodson, United States Army (Retired).
Teach kids about the power of words and the importance of kindness with this charming picture book that cleverly illustrates why we should think before we speak.
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Riley Green is certain her lie detector pen will improve her status in a school full of kids from the most powerful families of Washington, D.C. But her plan collapses when her invention idea is stolen, her favorite teacher goes missing, and mysterious threats begin to appear around capital.
A creative young boy with a passion for practicing origami finds a surprising source of encouragement on his diverse city block.
Charles Darwin, George Washington Carver, and Jane Goodall were once curious kids with pockets full of treasures!
All the colors make rhyming look so easy. But poor Orange can’t find a rhyme for itself — no matter how hard it tries.
Filled with clever rhymes and nonsense words, Orange Porange takes young readers on a rhyming adventure filled with ups, downs and a valuable lesson about embracing our uniqueness.
In this upbeat picture book, acclaimed authors Irene Latham and Charles Waters bring key themes from their earlier collaborations (Can I Touch Your Hair? and Dictionary for a Better World) to a young audience.
Discover the sights and sounds of Brazil through the eyes of a young girl and her great-grandmother as they share in the excitement of Carnaval!
BISA'S CARNAVAL is the 2022 Bronze Medal Winner of the Alma Flor Ada Best Latino Focused Children's Picture Book Award - English
It's time for Carnaval and Clara cannot wait to celebrate her favorite holiday with fa
Sometimes things are really tough. It's just too hard. You've had enough. Grumble, rumble, bump and roar, The Struggle Bus is at your door
You can cry, or you can shout, kick and scream or have a pout. Feel your feelings for a bit. Just keep moving--don't you quit
The little blue cottage waits each year for summer to arrive—and with it, the girl. Through sunny days and stormy weather, the cottage and the girl keep each other company and wile away the long days and nights together. Until one year, and then another, the cottage is left waiting and empty season after season.
From soda to water to milk and juice, this refreshing follow-up to There's No Ham in Hamburgers is full of fun facts and origin stories of some of America’s most popular drinks.
People have been inventing drinks for thousands of years.
What is light, and how does it shape our world? Acclaimed author Lola M. Schaefer and award-winning artist James Yang illuminate the essential concept of light in this playful and informative picture book. An educational and inventive picture book for readers of David Macaulay and Jason Chin, and anyone curious about how light impacts our world.
Join the Earth Patrol Written to help parents begin conversations with their children about a challenging and important topic, Something Happened to Our Planet describes the narrator's efforts to help the planet with her friends, by advocating for re-usable plates at her school.
Nature lovers and poetry fans alike will be drawn to this lyrical picture book depicting how Carolina wrens build a nest for their young.
This is the bark, snippets of twine,
spidery rootlets, and needles of pine
that shape the nest that Wren built.
A STEM-friendly tale of a girl and the doll she upgrades to be her new friend, for fans of The Most Magnificent Thing and Rosie Revere, Engineer.
When a big vocabulary leads to big confusion, Theo TheSaurus learns that there are some things you can say without any words at all! This story is Fancy Nancy for dinosaur lovers.
A fun and humorous picture book about a cow playing hide and seek, perfect for fans of Click, Clack, Moo.
Where, oh where, could Bessie be?
(This book cannot be returned.)
This big-hearted story of legacy, tradition and bravery-is an amazing way to introduce the child in your life to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Written by an HBCU graduate and educator, this story will be sure to expose children to the wonders of an HBCU through a realistic fiction experience, through the lens of the child. Aunt Tru had done it again.
