Showing 201–250 of 577 titles
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The Higher Power of Lucky
Patron takes readers to the California desert community of Hard Pan (population 43), where ten-year-old Lucky Trimble eavesdrops on twelve-step program meetings from her hiding place behind Hard Pan's Found Object Wind Chime Museum & Visitor Center. Eccentric characters and quirky details spice up Lucky's life just as fresh parsley embellishes her guardian Brigitte's French cuisine.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2007 (Medal Winner)
- Middle
- ISBN: 1-4169-0194-9
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Hildilid's Night
Hildilid hates the night and the creatures of it. She does everything she can to chase the night away. Pen-and-ink drawings composed of thousands of tiny lines add a moonlit quality to the pages. Only at the end, with the approach of dawn, does yellow come into the picture.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 1972 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780582161382
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Home Base: A Mother-Daughter Story
In parallel narratives, a girl and her mother work hard to achieve success in non-traditional roles as the girl tries out for the baseball team and the mother gets to work on a construction project.
- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2021
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780823436637
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Home in the Rain
During a long drive home from Grandmother's in the rain, Francie and her mother discover profound beauty and comfort in ordinary moments.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2018
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780763692698
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Hondo & Fabian
A beach outing for the dog and a full day at home for the cat are skillfully interwoven in this quiet tale of friendship. Spare text describes the day's events while soft, glowing illustrations tell the real story of parallel activities with subtle humor. McCarty's design choices from font and page layout to size and inviting cover art show great attention to detail in this masterfully executed picture book.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 2003 (Honor Title)
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780805063523
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Hoot
Hiaasen's wildly funny satire features the new kid, Roy, joining forces with tough Beatrice and the elusive Mullet Fingers to defeat a bully, thwart an avaricious corporation, and save a colony of burrowing owls. Hiaasen's work is both a rollicking adventure and a serious examination of values that threaten our environment.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2003 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 0-375-82181-3
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Hope Was Here
Hope Was Here relates how sixteen-year-old Hope and her aunt move to a small town in Wisconsin to join the “short order dance” of life at the Welcome Stairways Diner. In the course of just a few months, Hope encounters issues as diverse as her customers: corruption in politics, a new love, serious illness, and the meaning of family.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2001 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 0-399-23142-0
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Horrible Bear!
When a kite goes astray, an accident and misunderstanding bring together two unlikely friends in a story about the power of forgiveness.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2017
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780316282833
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The House in the Night
Richly detailed black-and-white scratchboard illustrations expand this timeless bedtime verse, offering reassurance to young children that there is always light in the darkness.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 2009 (Medal Winner)
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780618862443
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Houses from the Sea
Soft watercolor washes combine with poetic text to set the tone of this quiet, informative story. Two children gather shells along the coast and talk about the various shapes of the shells. An introduction and afterword provide more scientific information.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 1960 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780684124582
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How I Learned Geography
Recounting memories of his family's flight from the Warsaw blitz and his years as a refugee during World War II, Shulevitz employs watercolor and ink to depict a boy liberated from his dreary existence through flights of fancy.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 2009 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780374334994
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How to Read a Book
Bright collage illustrations and poetic imagery depict many of the countless ways to savor a book.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2020
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780062307811
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A Hungry Lion; or, A Dwindling Assortment of Animals
Why do a little calico kitten, a brown mouse, and a floppy-eared bunny disappear? Ask the hungry lion.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2017
- Younger
- ISBN: 9781481448895
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Hurry Home, Candy
Taken from his mother before he is weaned and given to a family that only knows how to hurt and control him, Candy is lost on a family outing and becomes a stray. He longs for his own home and for people who will really love him.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1954 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780060214869
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I Am Every Good Thing
This first-person affirmation celebrates Black boys and validates their right to be proud of themselves and deserving of respect, love, and joy.
- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2021
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780525518778
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I Broke My Trunk
In this installment of Elephant and Piggie's adventures, Piggie is very concerned because his best friend, Gerald the Elephant, has broken his trunk. Gerald proceeds to tell Piggie a long, rambling story about how it happened.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Theodor Seuss Geisel Award 2012 (Honor Title)
- Younger
- ISBN: 9781423133094
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I Can Make This Promise
Twelve-year-old Edie discovers a box in her family's attic that reveals her mother's Suquamish/Duwamish heritage.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2020
- Older
- ISBN: 9780062871992
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I See a Cat
Youngest readers will find success in the story of a dog that is increasingly frustrated by the glass door that separates it from the things it sees outside.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2018, Theodor Seuss Geisel Award 2018 (Honor Title)
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780823436804
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I Spy Fly Guy!
Fly Guy and his pal Buzz are back in a fresh beginner chapter book. A disastrous ending to a game of hide and seek finds Fly Guy hauled away to the local dump in this new take on a lost pet. Arnold's watercolor and colored pencil cartoon-like illustrations are fun and fanciful.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Theodor Seuss Geisel Award 2010 (Honor Title)
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780545110280
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I Talk Like a River
A young person with a stutter feels isolated. His father helps him understand that his speech moves like the ebb and flow of the river, giving him a new understanding of his way of speaking.
- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2021
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780823445592
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I Walk with Vanessa: A Story about a Simple Act of Kindness
One girl's upstanding action inspires her schoolmates to join and support a bullied child in this wordless, important story.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2019
- Younger
- ISBN: 9781524769550
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I Want My Hat Back
After losing his hat, Bear politely and patiently questions his fellow forest dwellers as to the whereabouts of his “red pointy hat.” Although no one admits to seeing the hat, deer helps Bear realize, “I HAVE SEEN MY HAT.”- Fiction, General Fiction
- Theodor Seuss Geisel Award 2012 (Honor Title)
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780763655983
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I Yam a Donkey!
Correcting a donkey's grammar and pronunciation comically leads to one yam's demise.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2016
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780544087200
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If You Didn't Have Me
A boy relates his experiences while living on his grandmother's farm.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1988 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780689504068
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If You Plant a Seed
A rabbit and mouse wait patiently for the seeds they planted to grow into delicious vegetables. When some birds want part of the harvest, everyone learns being kind is the most fruitful way to be.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2016
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780062298898
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Imagine!
A boy's imagination comes alive during his visit to the Museum of Modern Art in this wordless tribute to the power of art.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2019
- Younger
- ISBN: 9781481462730
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Inch by Inch
An inchworm saves himself from being eaten because he is able to measure things— a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a hummingbird's body. But when asked to measure the nightingale's song, the inchworm must think fast. The bright green inchworm inches its way out of sight through a collage of grass.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 1961 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780688132835
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Interrupting Chicken
Stein's hilarious story presents Little Chicken and her long-suffering Papa, who just wants to get through a bedtime story without his daughter's metafictive disruptions. Exuberant artwork shifts media and style, taking readers into three fairy tales, culminating in Little Chicken's “Bedtime for Papa,” but truly delivering a story for all.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 2011 (Honor Title)
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780763641689
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Hugo is a young orphan secretly living in the walls of a train station where he labors to complete a mysterious invention left by his father. In a work of more than five hundred pages, the suspenseful text and wordless double-page spreads narrate the tale in turns. Black-and-white pencil illustrations evoke the flickering images of the silent films to which the book pays homage.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 2008 (Medal Winner)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780439813785
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An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio
A collection of inter-connected stories about Puerto Rican American teenagers growing up in New Jersey, who struggle daily to make choices that will give meaning to their lives.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Pura Belpré Children's Author Award 1996 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780531068977
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Islandborn
Given a school assignment to draw a picture of her homeland, Lola gathers stories of “the Island” from people in her Dominican neighborhood. -
It's Like This, Cat
When his father suggests that owning a dog might be good for him, fourteen-yearold Dave defiantly goes to Aunt Kate the Cat Woman and adopts a stray. The cat ends up leading him to new people and adventures all over Manhattan—and even to an appreciation for his parents.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1964 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780060243906
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Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
As her family deals with the devastating aftermath of a tornado, Ivy loses a sketchbook in which she has drawn pictures that reveal her secret same-sex crushes.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2019
- Older
- ISBN: 9780316515467
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Jabari Jumps
Today is the day Jabari is going to jump from the high dive and he is almost, absolutely sure he is ready.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2018
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780763678388
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Jacob Have I Loved
Although she takes pride in her twin sister's singing talent, Wheeze (Louise) is jealous of the attention Caroline gets on their Chesapeake Bay island. It is only when she leaves and starts a life as a midwife in Kentucky that Wheeze comes to understand that she has always been loved and accepted for herself.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1981 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780064403689
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Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book
Letters of the alphabet are represented by words of the Swahili language. A brief explanation of the word includes cultural information of East African countries. Beautiful full-page illustrations further depict the cultures.- Fiction, General Fiction, Alphabet Books
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 1975 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780803743502
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Jazz Baby
Bebop rhyme and repeated stanzas are just the right rhythm for young readers in “Jazz Baby,” a nostalgic celebration of dancing, singing and playing music. New words are effortlessly repeated as they bounce into the text and become part of the joyful gouache paintings that swing high and low with the movement of one lucky baby at the center of this loving family.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Theodor Seuss Geisel Award 2008 (Honor Title)
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780152025229
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The Jazz Man
Night after night Zeke and his mother and father listen to the jazz man play his piano. Then his mother tires of his father not working, and she leaves them. Soon his father goes as well, and Zeke is alone. As the gloomy days and nights pass, Zeke dreams of the jazz man and of better, happier times.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1967 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780689717673
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Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
Elizabeth is lonely at her new school until she meets Jennifer, a girl her age who claims to be a real witch. In awe of Jennifer, Elizabeth agrees to become her apprentice and initially finds her boring life full of adventure. But Jennifer is very demanding, and even superficially docile Elizabeth can only be pushed so far.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1968 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780689702969
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Jerome By Heart
Raphael loves Jerome and, in spite of the response from his parents, he is not afraid to say that he knows his best friend by heart.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2019 (Honor Title), Notable Children's Books 2019
- Younger
- ISBN: 9781592702503
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Joey Pigza Loses Control
Spending the summer with his estranged father, Joey longs for the two of them to be winners together, but their lives gradually spiral out of control. As the old “wired” Joey returns, readers will long to see him regain his balance in an out-of-kilter world. Like many family stories, this is a tale whose pain is generously laced with humor.- Fiction, General Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2001 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: 0-374-39989-1
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Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
A resourceful and resilient tailor transforms his worn-out overcoat into smaller and smaller garments. The patchwork layout of the pages, the two-dimensional paint ings, and the exaggerated perspectives, reminiscent of the folk art tradition, are the very fabric that turn this overcoat into a story.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 2000 (Medal Winner)
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780670878550
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The Journey
In the face of war and the loss of her husband, a mother and her children leave everything behind to make a dangerous journey to find safety in a new land.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2017
- All Ages
- ISBN: 9781909263994
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Journey
Finding a magical red crayon, a bored and lonely girl draws a new door on her bedroom wall that leads her to a wondrous but perilous new world. Her drab, sepia-toned, humdrum reality gives way to sumptuous, lushly-hued watercolor and pen and ink landscapes.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 2014 (Honor Title)
- All Ages
- ISBN: 9780763660536
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Juan Bobo Goes to Work: A Puerto Rican Folktale
"Juan Bobo Goes to Work" carries on Pura Belpré's tradition of retelling traditional Puerto Rican folktales. Cepeda humorously depicts Juan Bobo's determined but disastrous antics through bold brush strokes, expert use of varied perspectives, and vibrant Caribbean colors.
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Juana & Lucas
Juana, a spirited young girl in Bogotá, Colombia, shares her frustrations and successes in learning English. -
Julián at the Wedding
Julian's artistic flare for fashion and innovation save the day at a wedding when his friend, Marisol ruins her dress. This celebration of individuality and love welcomes all.
- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2021
- Younger
- ISBN: 9781536212389
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Julián Is a Mermaid
Julián's chance encounter with three mermaids on a subway inspires him to create his own mermaid costume and reveal his inner self to his understanding abuela.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2019
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780763690458
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Just in Case
In “Just in Case,” Morales' vibrant, shimmering jewel-tone colors masterfully capture the exuberant and playful story of Señor Calavera's quest to find the perfect birthday gift for Grandma Beetle. Part ghost story, part trickster tale, the book features motifs from Mexican culture that represent each letter of the Spanish alphabet. -
Just Me
The little boy tries to imitate the hops, walks, and wiggles of the animals on his farm. But when he sees his father, he runs to him as only he can run. Black-and-white drawings have a charming rhythmic expression.- Fiction, General Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 1966 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780606021456