Boss Baby

By: Marla Frazee
Households are changed when a new baby arrives — especially when the addition assumes the position of boss! Readers will recognize the humor in the exaggerated role of one family's latest addition revealed in understated language and comic illustrations.

Martha Doesn't Share

By: Samantha Berger
Illustrated by:
Bruce Whatley
Since Martha's favorite word is "mine," sharing with her baby brother seems to be out of the question. That is, until Edwin and her parents help her see that together is sometimes better.

Peter's Chair

By: Ezra Jack Keats

Peter did not want to give up his things from babyhood, especially his old blue chair. When he recognizes that he has outgrown his once favorite chair, he helps his father paint it for his new sister.

Built to Last

By: David Macaulay
Three books, each a sophisticated examination at how structures were built — a cathedral, castle, and mosque — have been revised, refreshed with current information, and put in one volume.

How a Seed Grows

By: Helene Jordan
Illustrated by:
Loretta Krupinski

How a tiny seed can grow into an enormous plant (think acorn) is introduced through crisp text and effective illustrations. Suggested activities are easily doable (though adult help is required) and support concepts introduced.

Imaginative Inventions

By: Charise Mericle Harper
A lively, brief, rhyming look at various inventions and the people who created them weaves together with the author's speculation about what might have been behind the brainchild. Fact and fancy combine to motivate a new generation of inventors!

Al Capone Does My Shirts

By: Gennifer Choldenko
When Moose's family moves to Alcatraz so his father can work as a guard and his sister can attend a special school in San Francisco, Moose has to leave his friends and his winning baseball team behind.

Al Capone Shines My Shoes

By: Gennifer Choldenko
Nothing is the way it's supposed to be when you live on an island with a billion birds, a ton of bird crap, a few dozen rifles, machine guns and automatics and 278 of America's worst criminals. And then there's Moose Flanagan.

No Passengers Beyond This Point

By: Gennifer Choldenko
Three siblings — India, Finn, and Mouse — have less than 48 hours to pack up all their belongings and fly, without Mom, to their uncle Red's in Colorado, after they lose their house to foreclosure.

If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period

By: Gennifer Choldenko
Kirsten's parents are fighting and her best friend has suddenly joined the popular crowd. Walker is the only black student at his new private school and his single mom watches over him like a hawk. What happens when Kirsten's and Walker's worlds collide?

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