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Books for Kids

Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!

Claudette Colvin & Phillip M. Hoose

Dazzling Zelda: The Story of Fashion Designer Zelda Wynn Valdes

Aura Lewis & Farai Simoyi

The Leadership Journey: How Four Kids Became President

Doris Kearns Goodwin & Ruby Shamir

Star Sailor: My Life as a NASA Astronaut

Charles F. Bolden Jr. & Tonya Bolden

Swinging Into History: Toni Stone, Big-league Baseball's First Woman Player

Karen L. Swanson & Laura Freeman

Yasmeen Lari, Green Architect: The True Story of Pakistan's First Woman Architect

Marzieh Abbas & Hoda Haddadi

Books for Teens

Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known

George M. Johnson

Ida, in Love and in Trouble

Veronica Chambers

Killer House Party

Lily Anderson

The Magic You Make

Jason June

Tangleroot

Kalela Williams

Twenty-Four Seconds From Now...A Love Story

Jason Reynolds

Staff Picks

Mary O. , East Liberty

Did You Know? Nonfiction for Kids

Did you know that when Aldophe Sax first presented his saxophone at the Belgian National Exhibition, one of the other competitors kicked it across the floor?  Did you know that…

Mary O. , East Liberty

Onomatopoeiamania

Zap! Squeak! Vroom! Words that name the sound they make, or onomatopoeia, are great for building phonological awareness. Phonological awareness is being able to hear the smaller sounds that make…

Mary O. , East Liberty

Books for Budding Scientists

Like good scientists, kids LOVE to ask “why?”.  They love to ask questions, make observations, and draw conclusions about the world around them.  These books reinforce and encourage children’s natural…