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August Isle
by Ali Standish*A Junior Library Guild Selection* <P><P>From critically acclaimed author Ali Standish (The Ethan I Was Before), the story of one girl’s journey to a magical seaside town, where she uncovers her family’s long hidden secrets and ultimately finds truth and redemption. <P><P>Fans of Sharon Creech and Rebecca Stead will be captivated by this story filled with warm humor, mystery, whimsy, and characters you can’t let go. A modern classic in the making! <P><P>For years, Miranda has stared at postcards of August Isle, Florida. The town where her mother spent her summers as a girl. The town that Miranda has always ached to visit. She just never wanted it to happen this way. <P><P>When she arrives on the Isle, alone and uncertain, to stay the summer with an old friend of her mother’s, Miranda discovers a place even more perfect than she imagined. And she finds a new friend in Sammy, “Aunt” Clare’s daughter. <P><P>But there is more to August Isle than its bright streets and sandy beaches, and soon Miranda is tangled in a web of mysteries. A haunted lighthouse. An old seafarer with something to hide. A name reaching out from her mother’s shadowy past. <P><P>As she closes in on answers, Miranda must reckon with the biggest question of all: Is she brave enough to face the truth she might uncover?
August of the Zombies (Zombie Problems #3)
by K. G. CampbellIt started out as a small zombie problem. Then four more zombies tagged along. Now there are too many to count! From the acclaimed illustrator of Flora & Ulysses comes the exciting conclusion to the Zombie Problems trilogy.After facing an alligator attack and a paddle boat accident in search of the zombie stone, August comes out unscathed...but emptyhanded. At least Claudette is still by his side, along with a few more zombies. Of course, it isn't long before a few zombies becomes a horde, and August has so many questions: What is he supposed to do with all of these zombies? What is his Aunt Orchid hiding? Will his life ever be like Stella Starz (in her own life)? And most importantly, will he ever find the zombie stone and get everything back to normal?
Auma's Long Run (No Series)
by Eucabeth OdhiamboAuma loves to run. In her small Kenyan village, she's a track star with big dreams. A track scholarship could allow her to attend high school and maybe even become a doctor. But a strange new sickness called AIDS is ravaging the village, and when her father becomes ill, Auma's family needs her help at home. Soon more people are getting sick—even dying—and no one knows why. Now Auma faces a difficult choice. Should she stay to support her struggling family or leave to pursue her own future? Auma knows her family is depending on her, but leaving might be the only way to find the answers to questions about this new disease. •A BEA Editors' Buzz Pick •A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle-Grade Book of 2016 •A Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
Aunt Claire's Yellow Beehive Hair
by Deborah Blumenthal&“What a treat it is to become acquainted with her family&’s cast of characters!&” —Review of Texas Books &“Warmth, humor, and fond remembrance waft through this beautifully worded and evocatively illustrated exploration of a young girl&’s family tree.&” —justonemorebook.com One rainy day, Annie asks her grandmother about their family&’s history. Grandma Marilyn, who knows just how to tell a story, takes Annie on a genealogical adventure. When she shows Annie her old, dusty photographs, every aunt and uncle seems to come to life. Fascinated by the stories of her relatives, Annie decides to bring them all together in one album of family history. With powerfully touching prose, this delightful story takes readers on a nostalgic journey that will leave them reminiscing about their own families. Fun and quirky drawings bring past relatives out of their frames as Annie&’s imagination brings them to life. Although each family member is unique, the love she finds for her ancestors is universal. Her story will inspire children to seek out stories from their past and create a memory album for their own family.
Aunt Clara Brown: Official Pioneer
by Linda LoweryStory of Aunt Clara Brown, who hoped to find her daughter after buying her own freedom. She gains numerous wealth on her own and sets out to find her daughter, but helps freed slaves find jobs and new lives instead.
Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery (I Can Read #Level 2)
by Doug CushmanAunt Eater loves mystery stories so much that she sees mysterious adventures wherever she looks
Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)
by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard James E. RansomeWhen Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) was first published in 1991, it met with an overwhelming response from readers and reviewers alike. Here was "a wonderful family story," as The Horn Book Magazine said, "set matter-of-factly in an African-American environment." Since then, the story of Sarah and Susan's Sunday afternoon with their great-great-aunt Flossie--and her many hats and stories--has become a favorite book for sharing and for initiating conversations about family history.
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad In The Sky
by Faith RinggoldCassie, who flew above New York in Tar Beach, soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train full of people, and Be Be joins them. But the train departs before Cassie can climb aboard. With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the real Underground Railroad and is finally reunited with her brother at the story's end.<P><P> <b>Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Winner</b>
Aunt Hilda Bock and the Red Snapper Inn
by Mary Tucker Leanne FlemingThe life of young Kelly-Jane is turned upside down when her Aunt Hilda Bock comes to stay.Kelly-Jane is ten-and-a-half years old and thinks that life can?t get any worse. The kids at school don?t like her, her teacher is mad with her and even the school principal thinks she?s a loser. And then Kelly-Jane?s Aunt Hilda Bock from Humpty Doo arrives, and everything changes. She even has to share her bedroom with her crazy aunt! But when she is given a special amulet to hang around her neck, Kelly-Jane begins to wonder if Aunt Hilda Bock has special magical powers. Can she solve Kelly-Jane?s problems? And what is the secret of the Red Snapper Inn? Aunt Hilda Bock and the Red Snapper Inn is a wonderfully creative children?s tale from much-loved writer MARY TUCKER.
Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas
by Elise PrimaveraIt's getting toward Christmas at the Bing Cherry Hotel, and Auntie Claus is preparing for her annual "business trip." Just before she is ready to leave, her favorite nephew, Christopher Kringle, begins to have doubts about the family business. To settle the matter, Auntie Claus summons Chris for tea, but like any self-respecting Kringle, Chris decides to take matters into his own hands: He plans to get on the Bad-Boys-and-Girls List on purpose! Even after his older sister, Sophie, reveals that their great-aunt, Auntie Claus, is really Santa's sister, Chris needs to see for himself, in order to believe. In this companion to the much loved Auntie Claus, come along on a magical journey with Sophie Kringle's little brother, Chris, to a place you may have seen only in your dreams. And discover that anything is possible, when you have the key to Christmas!
Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings
by Francie LatourA Haitian American girl finds connection to generations of family lore in this story of identity, heart and home.Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter.The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow — the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt’s home in the mountains.The girl has always loved Auntie Luce’s paintings — the houses tucked into the hillside, colorful fishing boats by the water, heroes who fought for and won the country’s independence. Through Haiti’s colors, the girl comes to understand this place her family calls home. And when the moment finally comes to have her own portrait painted for the first time, she begins to see herself in a new way, tracing her own history and identity through her aunt’s brush.Key Text Featuresauthor’s noteglossarytranslationsCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4>Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic
by Ginnie LoBest Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education</p><p>Editor's Choice, Booklist</p><p>Charlotte Zolotow Award - Highly Commended Title, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)</p><p>Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)</p><p>Delaware Diamonds Reading List, Diamond State </p><p>Reading Association</p><p> Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators</p><p>Picture Book winner, Oregon Spirit Book Award</p><p>When Jinyi and her family discover a soybean field, they begin a tradition that becomes a staple of the Chinese American community in the Midwest.</p><p>Jinyi and her sister love visiting Auntie and Uncle Yang's home, where they enjoy dumpling-eating contests and backyard adventures with their cousins. One weekend, on a Sunday drive among the cornfields near Chicago, Auntie Yang spots something she has never before seen in Illinois. Could it be one of their favorite Chinese foods-soybeans?!</p><p>Excited by their discovery, the families have their very first soybean picnic. Every year after that, Auntie Yang invites more people to share the food and fun. Pretty soon more than two hundred friends and neighbors are gathering at the picnic to play games and eat soybeans together.</p><p>Unique illustrations painted on ceramic plates lend a quirky charm to this lighthearted intergenerational story. Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic is a delicious celebration of family traditions, culture, and community that will have readers asking for seconds, thirds, and more.</p>
Aunty Pinau's Banyan Tree
by Ramond Lanterman Helen BerkeyA familiar sight in Hawaii is the giant banyan tree, its huge mass supported by roots growing down from the branches to the ground below. This engaging story of one such banyan tree--Aunty Pinau's Banyan Tree--begins when the Little Wind soils a clothesline full of clean laundry. Aunty Pinau sets out to buy a "wind catcher" and, to her little nephew Jo-Jo's surprise, returns with a small banyan tree! Through the years, with Jo-Jo's faithful care the little tree grows and grows, putting out more and more roots until finally the tree forms a huge umbrella that provides welcome relief from the hot Hawaiian sun. The mynah birds make their homes in the tree, the women string their flower leis in its shade, and Mr. Matsumoto serves shaved ice to the school children and saimin to the fishermen under its branches.Within the pages of this entertaining children's story, we meet many people, each authentically reflecting some side of Hawaii's multi-racial background. We catch the real flavor of Hawaii's countryside and learn something of the different customs and patterns of life outside the city--things little known outside the islands.
The Aurelia Curse (Dragon Rider #3)
by Cornelia FunkeDragons, myth, and magic unite in the third installment of Cornelia Funke's bestselling Dragon Rider series. Ben and the Greenblooms must protect a mythical new creature rising from the ocean -- a creature who can bring either light or darkness to whoever it first meets.A new peril has emerged in the world of Fabulous Creatures. One that could cause the disappearance of their kind. Luckily, all of our favorite characters are back--Ben and Firedrake, his wonderful dragon friend, plucky Guinevere and the Greenbloom family, Sorrel the irrepressible brownie, the miniature man Twigleg and a host of new Fabulous Animals and sturdy helpers. But the threat is real and qucikly encroaching. A villian from the family's past is seeking revenge. And all the while, the mysterious Aurelia, the most fabulous and powerful creature of all, moves across oceans to its final destination, introducing a new underwater world to enjoy.
The Aurora County All-Stars
by Deborah WilesTwelve-year-old House Jackson--star pitcher and team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars--has been sidelined for a whole sorry year with a broken elbow. He's finally ready to play, but wouldn't you know that the team's only game of the year has been scheduled for the exact same time as the town's 200th-anniversary pageant. Now House must face the pageant's director, full-of-herself Frances Shotz (his nemesis and perpetrator of the elbow break), and get his team out of this mess. There's also the matter of a mysterious old recluse who has died and left House a wheezy old dog named Eudora Welty--and a puzzling book of poetry by someone named Walt Whitman. Through the long, hot month of June, House makes surprising and valuable discoveries about family, friendship, poetry . . . and baseball.
Aussie Angels 1: Okay Koala
by Margaret ClarkThere's trouble in school when the Angels get a new principal and a new teacher. And it seems that suddenly Greash and Foxie are the teacher's pets. Pests, more like it. Sneaky deeds with Feral the ferret get the twins busted, but wombats are involved in the situation too, and Mike and Meg need to find out how. Whatever the answer, you can bet Greash and Foxie are up to no good. OKAY KOALA is the first book in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 10: Dollar for a Dolphin
by Margaret ClarkThere's a pod of dolphins in the bay and Meg and Mike's teacher Ms Lee gets the kids involved in the "Adopt-a-Dolphin" scheme. Everyone brings a dollar so they can support the dolphins and go on a dolphin-watching trip. And nothing can spoil the most perfect day out, not even when the money disappears, and Greash and Foxie are the prime suspects, as usual. DOLLAR FOR DOLPHIN is the tenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 11: Dog on the Job
by Margaret ClarkAnimal Haven is a temporary home for all sorts of Australian wildlife, although there are a few permanent residents as well, like Oscar the owl, Fur Bag the possum, Cinnamon the koala and Alice the labrador. Meg and Mike live there, too, and they work so hard to help their parents rescue and look after the animals that the locals at Jeff's Creek have nicknamed them the Aussie Angels. Trying to get some attention from the Aussie Angels, Mike and Meg, can be a tough job, even when you're the top dog at Animal Haven. Alice the labrador is surrounded by orphaned wallabies and possums, and then there's that camel and emu and there are all the other residents and visitors! But Alice is determined to carve out her own career. She can smell trouble in the air, and her motto is always "Have nose, will travel". But Alice's travels lead her into some frightening adventures. DOG ON THE JOB is the eleventh instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 12: Mouse Pad
by Margaret ClarkThe Aussie Angels are back and their mission is clear: return an endangered dunnart to its colony and natural habitat. But when the Angels set out to return the critter, everything turns to disaster ? mysterious bike tracks lead to an old hut and old enemies have their way. With no dial tone on the mobile, and Carol the Camel in strife, how will the Mike and Meg ever get themselves out of danger? MOUSE PAD is the twelfth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 13: Camel Breath
by Margaret ClarkCarol the camel is tired of the animals and humans at Animal Haven teasing her about her yellow teeth and bad breath. So when she finds out that the dental caravan is visiting the local school, she takes off on a safari in search of clean teeth. But on the way she discovers a rare native orchid. CAMEL BREATH is the thirteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 14: Duck for Luck
by Margaret ClarkWhen a flock of wild ducks move into the swampy area near Animal Haven, everyone is excited. But among them is one pure white duck. The mysterious white duck seems quite out of place amongst the wild flock and Eddy the cheeky, sulphur-crested cockatoo decides that the Green family should adopt it. But Elsie the emu is feeling quite miffed and has other ideas! DUCK FOR LUCK is the fourteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 15: Owl Express
by Margaret ClarkOscar the owl feels left out because when all the action's on, he's fast asleep. He plans to stay awake all day and only sleep at night, but it'll never work. So someone has to make him feel important, fast! OWL EXPRESS is the fifteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 16: Pups 4 Sale
by Margaret ClarkEveryone at Animal Haven is stunned when Alice has eight pups: four golden and four black labradors! Clearly, the father is Lex, the pedigree black lab from down the road. But before long the pups get out of control and need training - and good homes. Meg and Mike find trouble at puppy school, however, and when they try to organise homes for the pups, the Angels discover that some families and their motives are not very honest. PUPS 4 SALE is the sixteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 17: Kidding Around
by Margaret ClarkWhen that little Aussie devil Mark goes to a birthday party at a nearby farm, he is delighted to find that the family has a herd of goats. He falls in love with two energetic kids and names one Butter (because he has tiny bumps on his head where the horns are growing) and the other one Cup (because she has a cup-shaped patch on her back). With Alice's help, he smuggles his new friends into Animal Haven, much to the disgust of Carol the camel. But how is he ever going to keep their presence a secret? KIDDING AROUND is the seventeenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.
Aussie Angels 18: Shark in the Dark
by Margaret ClarkMum is out on the surfboard and narrowly misses being attacked by a shark - or maybe it was just a false alarm. When Alice the labrador falls off the rocks and nearly becomes shark bait though, Meg and Mike, the Aussie Angels, aren't so sure! Meg is terrified, but some visiting scientists give her the chance to face her fears. SHARK IN THE DARK is the eighteenth instalment in a series loved by children all over Australia.