Children, Middle Grade & Kids

This heart-warming and heartfelt debut picture book from multi-award-winning author Patrice Lawrence introduces the struggles and achievements of a generation of African Caribbeans who traveled across the Atlantic to call a new country home.Ava is asked...

(Available after 3-20 days) "An uplifting middle-grade story that meets sadness head-on and cuddles up to what's important in life." -Kirkus Reviews Twelve-year-old Georgia believes her toothless rescue dog is psychic. With a spin of a Magic 8 Ball,...

Action and mystery abound on the movie set in the fourth Dog Man book from worldwide bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey.   Hot diggity dog! Dog Man is back -- and this time he's not alone. The heroic hound with a real nose for justice now has a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, illustrated book for middle school readers that looks at the early history of humankind.  A New York...

PreSchool-Grade 2-The star of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Hyperion, 2003) returns in another irresistible tale. Hurrying away to brush his teeth, the pajama-clad bus driver implores readers not to let his feathered friend stay up late...

When Pigeon finds a delicious hot dog, he can hardly wait to shove the entire thing in his beak. But . . . then a very sly and hungry duckling enters the scene and wants a bite. Who will be the more clever bird? In this hilarious follow-up to the...

The pigeon is BACK! And he STINKS! No, really, he actually smells very bad...Smell? What smell? I don't smell. YOU smell. In this hilarious, interactive read in Mo Willems' award-winning Pigeon series, the Pigeon needs a bath! Except, well, the Pigeon's...

More hilarious antics from Mo Willems' single-minded pigeon!Would YOU let the Pigeon have a puppy? He's wanted one for ever (at least since last Tuesday). But the Pigeon is in for a shock - having his very own puppy is not quite as wonderful as he...

Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children's novel... In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES   Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In the first two books alone, the three...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES   Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun—as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES   Like bad smells, uninvited weekend guests or very old eggs, there are some things that ought to be avoided. Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent, and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to alarm its...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES   Warning: Your day will become very dark—and possibly damp—if you read this book. Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate...

Pickpocket Gabriel finds himself training at a mysterious institution for altruistic crooks in Arcanjo's rollicking mix of high adventure and school story. 'So this is really a school for criminals.' It was meant as a question, though it came out...

An indispensable guide to welcoming children—from babies to teens—to a lifelong love of reading, written by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo, editors of The New York Times Book Review. Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about...

Internationally bestselling superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the launch of an inventive, hilarious, and suspenseful new contemporary fantasy trilogy inspired by African American history and folklore.It’s not easy being a...

Read the book behind Lena Dunham’s acclaimed new movie! This historical fiction classic, told in the form of a diary, has drawn in generations of readers and is a Newbery Honor Book.   Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to...

Skandar and his friends are back for their second year of unicorn rider training at the Eyrie! But of course, even more danger is afoot in a world where bloodthirsty unicorns roam. Rick Riordan fans won’t want to miss this epic fantasy series. The...

A companion to the Newbery Medal-winning middle grade novel The Crossover, the basis of the show streaming on Disney+!   What can we imagine for our lives? What if we were the star players, moving and grooving through the game of life? What if we had our...

From debut author Van Hoang comes Girl Giant and the Monkey King, a tale packed with magic, adventure, and middle-school woes—perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Roshani Chokshi.Eleven-year-old Thom Ngho is keeping a secret: she’s strong. Like suuuuper...