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A lush and endearing picture book about a young child and the special days they spend with their Sinhalese grandfather, their Seeya, despite their language barrier.Time that this child spends with their Seeya is quiet. They speak different languages and don't always communicate with words. But they communicate in other ways. Together, they play dress ups, stomp in puddles, and go on adventures. They make pittu, tease each other when they're me...

Read about Sylvia Rivera, who is among the most groundbreaking, iconic Hispanic and Latinx heroes who have shaped our culture and the world in Hispanic Star: Sylvia Rivera, co-written with J. Gia Loving, from Claudia Romo Edelman's gripping Hispanic Star biography series for young readers.Meet Stonewall uprising veteran Sylvia Rivera-once just a kid from New York City. A transgender Latina, Sylvia became an influential gay liberation and trans...

Read about Sylvia Rivera, who is among the most groundbreaking, iconic Hispanic and Latinx heroes who have shaped our culture and the world in Hispanic Star: Sylvia Rivera, co-written with J. Gia Loving, from Claudia Romo Edelman's gripping Hispanic Star biography series for young readers.Meet Stonewall uprising veteran Sylvia Rivera-once just a kid from New York City. A transgender Latina, Sylvia became an influential gay liberation and trans...

For fans of Hilo and The Last Kids on Earth comes Travis Daventhorpe for the Win!, the first volume of a hilarious fantasy-scifi graphic novel series!Travis Daventhorpe may be a genius, but he's always struggled to make friends. After his attempt to befriend new kid Juniper Reyes results in an epic fail, Travis takes his sentient flying robot, Travbot, out for a ride. But when Travbot malfunctions, the two take a nosedive into the woods. There...

Steeped in Jewish folklore, The Scorpio Races meets Peaky Blinders in this dual-POV YA fantasy where the daughter of a famous horse breeder, a black-market enchanter, and an ambitious heir must work together to win a cutthroat enchanted horserace.The Rusel family is famous throughout Enderlain as breeders of enchanted horses, but their prestige is no match for their rising debts. To save her family's ranch, Mikira Rusel is left with only one o...

From award-winning, bestselling author Nina Laden comes a poetic picture book about having the courage and resilience to plant 'seeds' that will improve ourselves and our community.Sow seeds of strength, Ride out the storm. Sow seeds of compassion, Make hearts warm. After seeing an area in her local, Madagascar community devastated from drought, a young girl gets inspired. She should plant a garden-what could be more perfect? She gathers her f...

Written by Christian Trimmer and illustrated by Rachel Gyan, Wombat, the Reluctant Hero is a story of climate change, community, and heroism, inspired by the 2019 Australia wildfires. Wombat liked her things just so. Everything had its place, and nothing was out of order.She couldn't say the same about her neighbors. But that was their business, and Wombat didn't concern herself with others' business.When a very hot, dry summer causes dangerou...

Zombies! Talking turnips! Puppy! Kitty takes 'em all on, in full color! But her mettle is really tested when she encounters none other than her creator. In the latest full-color reissue of the New York Times-bestselling series, Kitty encounters what may be her most formidable foe yet: her creator! Kitty learns that feline manipulation works both ways-especially when you're at the wrong end of your author's pencil. Along the way, Nick shows kid...

From APALA Honor award-winning author Susan Tan, a middle-grade novel about a girl who must overcome her worries to find the truth behind her town's urban legend. Mo is not afraid of toast. Just to be clear. She is afraid of fires, though. Which can be caused by everyday appliances, like toasters. So toast isn't the problem, but you could say it's the start of a slippery slope. Since her family's recent move, Mo's been eating oatmeal. Moving t...

The world's favorite feisty feline goes to school . . . obedience school. And Bad Kitty faces her toughest challenge yet, in full color! In the latest full-color reissue of the New York Times-bestselling series, Kitty and Puppy are out of control! They're screaming, fighting, hissing, and drooling all over the house, and all of the commotion is upsetting Baby. Time for school-obedience school, that is. Can Kitty learn to follow the rules and m...

Real Princesses Change the World is an inspirational picture book profiling 11 contemporary real-life princesses and 3 heir apparents from all around the world.There are so many ideas of what princesses are: Princesses are sweet, beautiful, and gracious. Princesses wear poofy dresses and strut about their castle. Princesses are just missing a handsome prince. But what message does that send to the children who look up to them? This picture boo...

Co-hosts of the popular podcast Gaslit Nation outline the authoritarian's playbook, illuminating five steps every dictator needs to take to successfully amass and maintain power.Do you crave the power to shape the world in your image?Can you tell lies without blinking an eye?Do you see enemies all around you?If you answered yes to all of the above, then this is the job for you! And if becoming a dictator sounds intriguing, well, you've just st...

In this follow-up to Anzu the Great Kaiju, created by Walt Disney Studios animator Benson Shum, we follow sweet and well-intentioned Anzu as he learns a valuable lesson about patience and empathy in the face of sadness-perfect for fans of The Rabbit Listened.Anzu the kaiju loves to tend to his bonsai.Whenever he feels overwhelmed or unsettled, it helps him pause and reminds him to just . . . breathe.One day, when Anzu hears crying in the dista...

Step out of your element with Science Comics: The Periodic Table of Elements, the latest volume of First Second's nonfiction graphic novel series!A book of fun chemistry experiments has fallen into the wrong hands. Only Mel can use her knowledge of the periodic table to put an end to a maniacal madman's evil schemes.The periodic table helps us quickly understand the 118 elements, those tiny substances that make up everything in the world. By u...

A riveting graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning nonfiction book, Bomb-the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War. In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continent...

A riveting graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning nonfiction book, Bomb-the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War. In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continent...

The phenomenally successful Bad Kitty series is purr-fect for fans of Dav Pilkey's Dog Man and Ben Clanton's Narwhal and Jelly series, reluctant readers, comic book fans, and cranky cats.It's been a long time since Kitty has had a play date. So, her owners decide it's about time she interacts with some friends in Bad Kitty: Supercat, a full color chapter book in Nick Bruel's New York Times bestselling series.But the play date takes a turn when...

From the author of Nowhere Boy - called "a resistance novel for our times" by The New York Times - comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s.Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pand...

Turn back the clock with History Comics! In this volume, learn about two brave women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott!A Black woman who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus sparked a bus boycott and became part of one of the most iconic moments in American history. Yet, few know that Rosa Parks had actively worked toward social justice her whole life. And even fewer know that the seeds o...

From author Ronald Wimberly, creator of the viral comic Lighten Up, comes a soaring graphic biography that casts new light on the first African-American fighter pilot.On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow South who was determined to find a place where a Black man would be treated as a fellow human being. His search took him from rural Georgia to the streets of Paris, from the vaudeville stage to the boxing rin...