The Night I Followed the Dog Have you ever wondered where dogs go at night, and what they do? Well the little boy in this story has reason to believe...
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother Tricia can't stand her rotten redheaded older brother Richie, who can do everything better than she can. So when her grandmother tells her a...
Library Lion Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a...
If I Ran for President If you ran for president, you would have to do a lot of hard work. You would study the nation’s problems, tell the American...
Hey, That’s My Monster When Ethan looks under the bed for his monster, he finds this note instead: “So long, kid. Gotta go. Someone needs me more than...
Harry the Dirty Dog Harry is a white dog with black spots who loves everything…except baths. So one day before bath time, Harry runs away.
Hanukkah in Alaska Hanukkah in Alaska is unlike anywhere else. Snow piles up over the windows. Daylight is only five hours long. And one girl finds a...
Rent Party Jazz This story is set in New Orleans in the 1930s. Sonny and his mother are scraping by to pay their rent. Mama works in...
Quackenstein Hatches a Family Crack open this tale of family and fright, as cute as it is creepy. All the animals in the zoo have friends and family...
How I Learned Geography Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce,...
Snappsy The Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) https://youtu.be/yU8OJWAZmZo Snappsy the alligator is having a normal day when a pesky narrator steps in to spice up the story. Is Snappsy reading a...
Zombies Don’t Eat Veggies! Mo Romero is a zombie who loves nothing more than growing, cooking, and eating vegetables. Tomatoes? Tantalizing. Peppers? Pure perfection! The problem? Mo’s parents...
Trombone Shorty Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews got his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as long as he...
The Hula-Hoopin’ Queen Kameeka is confident that today she will finally beat her rival, Jamara, and become the Hula-Hoopin’ Queen of 139th Street. But then Mama reminds...
Lotus & Feather A winter illness left Lotus, a little girl, without a voice and without friends. A hunter’s bullet left Feather, a crane, injured and unable...
Turkey Trouble Turkey is in trouble. Bad trouble. The kind of trouble where it’s almost Thanksgiving . . . and you’re the main course. But Turkey...