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Set in Nigeria, this is a delicious tale of mischievous toddlers, juicy mangoes and cunning monkeys-- starring the letter M.

Twelve-year-old Meg is pulled into a mysterious treasure hunt at her new boarding school and must learn to work with her new classmates, who all have secrets of their own.

When his sister keeps interrupting his story with wild ideas that don't even rhyme, a big brother suddenly realizes she's actually improving his yarn-- and doing it with an impressive surprise of her own-- and decides to share the narrative.

A little girl and her grandmother spend Friday afternoon preparing for Shabbat by making challah.

It's time for bed but the little witch's room is still awake with magic, and young ones can join her in saying good night to all the frightfully fun items around her.

Fourteen acclaimed authors showcase the beautiful and diverse ways holidays are observed. From Lunar New Year to Solstice, Día de Los Muertos to Juneteenth, and all the incredible days in between, it's clear Americans don't just have one holiday.

A family gathers for their Sunday menudo tradition, and through playful mishaps and counting (in Spanish and English), they learn the value of teamwork and love.

Community members, primarily of Mexican-American descent, band together and protest the construction of a police station on designated parkland and transform it into a vibrant cultural hub.

Pablo Ortiz, an anxious sixth-grader, had no desire to be the hero called to defeat the Aztec goddess who came through a portal-- his locker!-- from the monster realm. Good thing his friends and his abuela have what he needs to succeed.

Born to be a star, Etta prepares for her big performance in the school talent show, but when she gets pre-show jitters, her loving family helps her through it so she can shine in the spotlight.

Mariam Hassan is an Iraqi American Muslim girl navigating sixth grade at a Catholic school. She faces "burden of representation" while navigating friendships, a class president race and being cast as Mary in the Nativity play, all while managing her sister's serious illness.

In a tiny Beirut apartment, Raja and his mother live side by side. Raja relishes books, order and solitude, but his octogenarian mother views his desire for privacy as a personal affront.

In this "Romeo and Juliet"-inspired retelling set during the civil rights era, a Mexican American girl is driven to join a movement for justice after her white classmate and best friend from the barrio are tragically murdered.

Two 10-year-olds must decide whether they should join forces to create an unbeatable duo that is sure to win their school's annual creative storytelling contest.

Hassan faces a hectic month of homework, soccer and gaming while fasting every day for the holy month of Ramadan, in a story about balancing family traditions and secular middle-school life.

When Hamra steals a magical fruit from a tiger hoping to cure her grandmother, she must repay her debt to the tiger by going on an extraordinary journey with him to make him human again.

This collection includes 13 scary stories with shocking twists on everyday reality, from an innocent set of dark, dusty basement stairs to a piano recital that requires unusual sacrifices.

Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of racism while discovering who they want to be.

When his older brother Seth is in a serious accident, 13-year-old Isaiah chooses to help him recover in the way only he can: by trusting in their bond and undying love.

Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.

Hollis Brown feels trapped in his struggling small town but then meets Walt, a spirit adrift for generations, who takes over Hollis' body and mind, but Walt and Hollis start to work together and an unspeakable bond grows between them.

A bird named Only likes his quiet time and alone time, but he does not want to be lonely.

An immortal, grumpy ghost hunter cursed to wander eternally outlives everyone he loves. When he takes a job as a cemetery groundskeeper to banish a vengeful spirit, he unexpectedly finds a found family and a reason to live. 

Marshall, a journalist, is sent to a small town to look into an improbable rumor that a horse has given birth to a human baby. As she investigates, she discovers evidence of a murder and becomes drawn into an even deeper and stranger mystery than she expected.

Santi is excited to spend the summer in Hillside Valley, meeting local kids, eating his Abuela's delicious food and exploring, but Santi doesn't speak Spanish and it seems everyone he meets does.

Desperate to return home while staying with her aunt, Laura finds a puppy and decides that if she can train it to become a therapy dog, she might be allowed to visit her parents-- and then maybe things will go back to the way they should be.

Darcy, a 32-year-old librarian, returns to work after a mental breakdown triggered by the death of her ex-boyfriend. Returning to work she faces local book bans, protests and more.

As Margit sets out to understand Sigrid and the secrets she has hidden, both sisters, in their own time and way, discover that reigniting their shared childhood imagination is the only way forward. Content warning for suicidality.

Dark secrets and unnatural magic abound when a 12-year-old girl ventures into a bog full of monsters to break a mysterious curse.

After their billionaire father is murdered at his annual Prodigy Ball, his five brutally trained adopted children are trapped in their mansion as suspects, forced to confront one another's secrets, traumas and betrayals.

Henry, a first grader on the autism spectrum, attempts to navigate friendships and sudden changes in classroom routines-- like a parade on Friday instead of share time.

Henry, a young boy with autism, learns to manage his school garden with his best friend Katie-- but Henry's world feels turned upside down when Katie brings along a new friend named Ivy.

While attending a new school that'll help him control his powers, Bobby Beacon finds his temper landing him in hot water until an understanding teacher gives him ways to calm himself and shows him that caring for others is its own kind of superpower.

A patient father offers fantastical, creative responses to a wakeful child’s nighttime questions, including why the ocean is blue, what the rain is and what happened to the dinosaurs.

In a mysterious convent, a lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened. When a stranger passes the convent walls, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future and her present life.

When loud-voiced Penelope becomes student-librarian, she is determined to prove she is perfect for the job while staying true to herself.

This wordless picture book presents a time-lapse reimagining of human civilization as a mighty tree bears silent witness to the flow of time and change, a meditation on the relationship between nature and humankind.

Two little mineral piles, Stalactite and Stalagmite, foster a friendship over millions of years as they grow closer together, figuratively and literally.

Tess Bright just scored her dream role starring in an adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, but one very tall, annoyingly handsome person-- Hugh Balfour-- is standing in her way.

Feeling incomplete as an adopted child after placing her own baby up for adoption, teen Grace tracks down her biological siblings and finds herself struggling with the dynamics of being a middle child between an embittered older brother and an outspoken younger sister.

When Beth March is found dead in the woods on New Year's Day, her sisters vow to find her murderer. Told through multiple perspectives, Beth's story unfolds through flashbacks next to Meg, Jo and Amy's increasingly fraught investigation as the tragedy threatens to rip the Marches apart.

In the final days of Pompeii, two boys-- Felix and Loren-- must grapple with closely-guarded secrets and untangle myth, magic and memory to escape the burning city alive.

Grieving the loss of her husband to Alzheimer's, Maggie embarks on a dangerous quest to uncover the truth behind his illness, leading her on a mind-bending adventure through time and memory to save him and change the course of history.

When she's accused of a crime she didn't commit, going from meme megastar to public enemy, Princess Beautiful, the most famous feline on the planet, shows everyone what she's made of as she fights to clear her name.

After her best friend is cast out of their insular Orthodox Jewish community for a seemingly innocent transgression, Yoyo Gold's eyes are opened to the truth of her neighbors’ hypocrisies for the first time. And what she sees leaves her shocked and unmoored.

Tessa loves how her grandmother always smells of campfire stories. Mom says it's because Kohkom spends her days sewing beautiful beads onto smoked hides. Inspired, Tessa asks Kohkom to teach her beading, but first she must listen and learn about the many stories a bead holds.

Lucy Smith, a foster teen on the run, is drawn into a complex mystery involving her stolen Ojibwe heritage. Lucy must uncover the truth about her past, while also trying to clear her name and protect her loved ones.

Two years after surviving a school shooting, 12-year-old Simon moves to the only place in America where the internet is banned, finally getting a chance to spin his own story with the help of a new friend.

Feeling out of place at home with her mom and stepfather and at her Jewish day school, Mia makes a secret plan to use her bat mitzvah gifts to take a bus to Oklahoma to visit her dad and find the connection to her Muscogee side she knows is just as important as her Jewish side.

Eniiyi must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin, Monife, fated to follow in her footsteps in all ways, including Monife's tragic end.