An egg rolls down the hill and into a duck’s nest, and, when that egg hatches, out comes Guji-Guji, distinctly unducklike in appearance, with his scaly blue-grey skin, his four legs that end in long claws, and his sharp teeth. But Guji-Guji learns to swim and walk, along with his duckling siblings, Crayon, Zebra and [...]
In the spring of 1939, a nine-year old girl named Liesel Meminger comes to live with Rosa and Hans Hubermann in their tiny house in Himmel Street, in Molching, a small town near Munich. Having recently survived the death of her younger brother, and separation from her sickly mother, Liesel is angry, defensive, and driven [...]
Twelve-year old Percy Jackson seems to be plagued by bad luck. Constantly in trouble at his upper New York state boarding school, hounded by a nasty classmate named Nancy Bobofit, and struggling with both dyslexia and ADHD, it’s like he’s an accident waiting for a place to happen. And it happens inside one of the [...]
In Hands, author and illustrator Lois Ehlert tells the story of growing up to be an artist. In simple words and richly evocative images that capture the experiences through a young child’s eyes, Ehlert documents the work her father and mother did with their hands, her father’s woodworking, her mother’s sewing, and their gardening. She [...]
Fifteen-year old Ned Marriner wanders the deserted chapels and aisles of the ancient cathedral at Aix-en-Provence, passing the time while his famous photographer father sets up his photo shoot outside. Though he is glad to be out of school two months early, and enjoys watching his father and his team of assistants plan the pictures [...]
Sapphire and her older brother, Conor, live with their parents in a small cottage at the edge of the sea. Together, Sapph and Conor spend their summers climbing down the cliffs to the small sandy cove near their home, where they explore the narrow caves, study the tidal pools, swim in the ocean, and eat [...]
