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...
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,...
Here Comes the Garbage Barge Before everyone recycled…there was a town that had 3,168 tons of garbage and nowhere to put it. What did they do? Enter the Garbage...
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...
The Hidden Rainbow All the colors of the rainbow are hidden in the garden, but can the little bee find them—with help from the reader? Christie Matheson,...
Enemy Pie It was the perfect summer. That is, until Jeremy Ross moved into the house down the street and became Enemy Number One.
The Elves and the Shoemaker The story is a simple one, of a poor shoemaker and his wife who suddenly find they are getting help from a mysterious source.
The Coal Thief Brrr! Georgie wakes up to a freezing morning in 1920’s Pennsylvania and gets the bad news that there is no coal to heat the...
Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream If there was anything in the world better than playing baseball, Marcenia Lyle didn't know what it was.
The Case of the Missing Carrot Cake When crime happens, especially when food goes missing on Ed’s farm, mouse crime fighters and food detectives Wilcox and Griswold are the animals to...
Carla’s Sandwich When Carla brings weird sandwiches to school, her classmates have plenty to say about them. “That’s sick!” says Leslie. “That’s disgusting!” says Natie.
A Bad Case of Stripes Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids at her school don't like them.