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The Land of Secret Superpowers: Vegetables is health and lifestyle expert Devin Alexander's first publication for children. Geared towards toddlers and preschoolers, this delightfully illustrated book entices little ones to open their eyes (and their mouths) to the heroic possibilities of the delicious foods we are all meant to eat, highlighting how the vegetables are grown & featuring a cast...

More than 250 million years ago, our planet looked and felt a lot different from how it does now. The seven separate continents we have today hadn't yet taken shape. Instead, there was only one "supercontinent" called Pangaea. This was the beginning of the time of the dinosaurs. Journey from the Triassic to the Jurassic to the Cretaceous to find out how Earth slowly shifted over time, and how the...

New York Time best-selling author J.C.CERVANTES is a believer in magic and searches for it in all corners of the word. As an author of books for children and young adults she writes about a pre-teen who gets pulled into adventures with various gods and the shadow bruja Ren and her quest to prevent the nine Aztec Lords of Night from awakening in THE LORDS OF THE NIGHT. Fourteen-year-old Renata Sant...

From award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexandercomes an all-ages, family read destined to be a major saga that changes the way we think about pre-colonial Africa: THE DOOR OF NO RETURN tells the saga of an African family through the eyes of twelve-year-old Kofi and his friend Ama, as they come of age in pre-colonial Ghana and face the woes and wonders of the new worlds of...

LOVE YOUR AMAZING SELF – meditation teacher and hip-hop musician - OFOSU JONES-QUARTEY – offers a unique entry point to mindfulness and self-empowerment for kids ages 7 and up. The book is a unique collection of lyrical meditations that call out to be spoken, recited, or sung aloud. Jones-Quarterly also knows as the recording artist - BORN I – has been teaching mindfulness and meditation for more...

A heart-pounding final showdown changes the life of Cruz Coronado forever in the seventh and final book in this thrilling fact-based fiction series. The Forbidden Island is the seventh and final installment of Explorer Academy, the fact-based fiction series deemed “captivating” by the editors at Parenting.com. This story features even more thrilling adventures, complete with science, technology,...

We all know that little kids ask an awful lot of questions. “Why” can sometimes seem like the only word they know! Now here’s a chance to have some answers. If you want to rule in your knowledge about the animal kingdom and become an expert on all creatures that crawl, wriggle, run, swim, leap, and fly, this is the book for you! Roam through the savanna to discover why hyenas laugh. Slither along...

It's that time of year where we reassess how we're going to tackle the new year and setting healthy habits for our little ones is high on most parents' minds. Beloved kids franchise CoComelon is out with new research about the most important habits parents want to establish with their kids with bathtime, bedtime and eating vegetables all topping the list. Award winning TV host and personality Lill...

In the 2017 young adult novel They Both Die at the End, author Adam Silvera introduced two teenagers who experience one unforgettable day after a mysterious organization called Death-Cast informed them that today would be their last day on Earth. The book became a publishing phenomenon, hitting #1 on the New York Times best-seller list, garnering tremendous critical acclaim, and capturing the imag...

You Don’t Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine is 12-year-old Yeva Skalietska’s firsthand account of her harrowing escape from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yeva’s story begins on her twelfth birthday in Kharkiv, where she has been living with her grandmother since she was a baby. Ten days later, the only life she’d ever known was irrevocably shattered. On February 24, 2022,...

This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward Episode 544 With Author And Journalist Nora Nues MUHAMMAD NAJEM, WAR REPORTER In 2018 CNN Reporter Nora Neus stumbled across the twitter feed from Muhammad Najem, a 15-year-old Syrian using social media to tell his story in any way he could. He was only eight years old when the war in Syria began. He was thirteen w...

The creators of the Circle Round bring their beloved combination of folktales and storytelling activities to book form in the first branded Circle Round book series. Podcast host Rebecca Sheir has uncovered folktales from a broad range of traditions, all exploring timeless values, such as kindness, generosity, acceptance, and more. Specially designed to be read aloud and shared, these stories are...

Love & Gelato meets The Opposite of Always in the poignant and romantic novel, SPELLS FOR LOST THINGS by Jenna Evans Welch. In this brand-new standalone novel, two teens try to find their place in the world after being unceremoniously dragged to Salem, Massachusetts, for the summer. Willow has never felt like she belonged anywhere and is convinced that the only way to find a true home is to tr...

Bursting with fascinating, fun-tastic facts, this treasure trove of all things animals leaves no habitat unexplored or unusual animal ability unmentioned! If you have ever wondered what sound a rhino makes when it’s happy you can find the answer and 4,997 more in this captivating and colorful collection! Featuring vibrant photography and a bold, eye-catching design, this treasure trove is perfect...

National Geographic Explorers and big cat experts Steve Winter and Sharon Guynup have spent more than two decades tracking big cats in some of the world’s most remote wild places. They’re now sharing what they’ve learned about these iconic cats in a fun, fascinating photo and fact-filled book for kids, The Ultimate Book of Big Cats: Your Guide to The Secret Lives of These Fierce, Fabulous Felines....

The E.B. White Read Aloud Award winner is publishing his first interactive book called HEY, BRUCE!, adding to the fun of his best-selling the curmudgeonly Mother Bruce series of books for young readers .“One convenient thing about writing stories about a grump is that I can get away with more bad things happening to him before the audience stops laughing and starts feeling sympathy for him,” Higgi...

Darren Aronofsky and his screenwriting partner, Ari Handel, introduce their debut novel Monster Club, the first book in an action-packed, hilarious and heartfelt series about growing up, letting go, and facing down your monsters. The only thing that makes Eric “Doodles” King happy is Monster Club, the epic roleplaying game that he and his friends created. But when his friends start to think of Mon...

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged. Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story. But who? Even though his unreliable dad tells him to not get so emotional about a book (or an...

Former NBA All-Star and Miami Heat assistant coach Caron Butler and acclaimed author Justin A. Reynolds tip off the first book in a new middle grade series about a young boy trying to make his mark on an AAU basketball team coached by a former NBA star. In Shot Clock , Tony loves basketball. But the game changed recently when his best friend, Dante, a hoops phenom, was killed by a police officer....

Beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston first published the short story Magnolia Flower in 1925. A stirring folktale brimming with poetic prose, culture, and history, Magnolia Flower follows a young Afro-Indigenous girl who longs for freedom. Now, Magnolia Flower is tenderly reimagined as a children’s picture book by #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning auth...

This new addition to the wildly popular, fact packed Weird But True series is all about the coolest, strongest, and WEIRDEST birthday facts in the world. For instance, did you know that you are likely share your birthday with about 20.8 million other people around the globe? Or that the winner at the world birthday-cake-eating championship ate 14.5 pounds of cake in just under eight minutes? Unwra...

Bill Konigsberg , author of six books, the latest being Destination Unknown , a YA book from Scholastic, which Kirkus Reviews calls “Historical fiction at its finest.” In fact, the review is so great, here are some excerpts that say it better than I can: “Two drastically different gay teens meet in New York City in 1987 at the height of the AIDS pandemic…… What ensues is a tour de force : an explo...

We all know them—the sandcastle smashers, the avid piñata bashers, the kids who thrill to watching videos of wrecking balls in action and avalanches. Rather than be concerned about boys and girls who are drawn to destruction, parents, teachers, and other significant adults should encourage their fascination. Because the more curious they become, the more they’ll want to learn about how things blas...

From the troll doll bug of Suriname to the Bog Snorkeling Championships in Wales to a technicolor village in Indonesia, Weird but True! World 2023 offers an unparalleled, adventure-filled exploration of our world’s amazing uniqueness. Middle graders will discover Earth’s strangest animals, wackiest festivals, ancient wonders, intriguing news, and more in the newest addition to the wildly popular W...

We know animals can’t speak and express themselves in the same way as humans but even the smallest and quietest animals have incredible ways of communicating with each other. With wildlife veterinarian expert Dr. Gabby Wild as a guide, How to Speak Animal helps kids understand how animals communicate through sound, body language, and behavior. It’s full of expert insights and real-life stories of...