"Down the hill I run, rain-booted and sweater-free. And all around me, swallows swirl." One child's year is punctuated by the life cycle of the swallows roosting in the eaves of the shed. She More →

2020 EUREKA Excellence in Nonfiction Awards - Honoree Did you know that more than six million pets arrive annually at community animal shelters in the United States? Of that number over… More →

Help Tallulah the mermaid protect the Great Lakes--and learn how you can become an honorary mermaid too! Tallulah is ready to start her work as the Great Lakes' first official mermaid! After… More →

Life in 1880 Tenmile, Colorado, isn't easy. But it's all that 12-year-old Sissy Carlson knows. She's lived here her whole life, watching her father, the local doctor, tend to the town's… More →

At the most charming bakery, the pastry chefs of The Baker's Dozen learn to embrace change--and encounter the delights of the doughnut! The work at The Bakers Dozen bakery goes like… More →

The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival takes place on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, ushering in the start of summer. On the night before the Dragon Boat Festival, a young… More →

In Book 3 of this engaging beginning reader series from acclaimed children's writer Eve Bunting, Frog and his friend Little Brown Bat enjoy all the things that make them different from each… More →

Jordie is awed by asteroids, perplexed by planets, and mesmerized by moons. She can't believe her luck when she finds a black hole taking up residence in her desk at school. Of course she's… More →