Staff Picks

A quiet boy on the edges of his classroom becomes visible when one act of kindness changes the social map.

A newcomer from Venezuela learns that snow and friendship can open a new kind of joy.

Max sails into a wild kingdom of monsters and returns home changed, hungry, and loved.

A girl narrates the rhythms of life with her grandparents through the magical kitchen window she loves best.

A safety officer and his silent police dog become school assembly stars for very different reasons.

William Kamkwamba's childhood ingenuity turns scrap materials and observation into a windmill that helps his village.

A young immigrant girl in 1929 New York discovers a library branch that opens a wider world of language, books, and possibility.

As her great-aunt prepares to move from Miami, a girl helps carry family memory from Cuba into the next home.

A baby bird's repetitive search for his mother makes for one of the sturdiest early-childhood read-alouds around.

A fruit bat raised among birds becomes a story about difference, adaptation, and finding your own kind without losing love.