When a new family moves in, the whole neighborhood comes together to celebrate what makes their community diverse and special. 

After telling too many far-fetched tales, Nana Busumuru is sent to spend the summer with relatives in Ghana, where she must join forces with the trickster spider Ananse to prevent an evil corporation from stealing the magic in the village forest. 

When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sounds like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world. 

Showcases a colorful South American bus, the collective spirit of its people, and the vibrant power of community when trouble comes.

Playing different roles for his divorced parents, TV-obsessed Jake Lightman concocts a web of lies to attend Camp Gershoni with his new best friends. 

A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer’s market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce. 

In football-obsessed Rye, Virginia, six middle schoolers – all with different backgrounds and beliefs – debate whether the town’s mascot should stay or change.

A crew of resourceful neighbors comes together to prepare a meal for their community. Includes a recipe and an author’s note about the volunteering experience that inspired the book. 

It’s the summer after seventh grade, and Ruby Chu is feeling more lost than ever. Her best friends aren’t speaking to her. She ended the year in detention. Her sister’s about to leave for college. Ruby’s still grieving her grandfather Ye-Ye when it seems like no one else is. And without Ye-Ye and his annual scavenger hunts across San Francisco, their hometown doesn’t really feel like home anymore.

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, as an eBook on hoopla, and in eAudio on hoopla. 

A picture book that shows that a school is much more than just a building.

While visiting her uncle John in the city for the summer, an African American girl, L’il Sissy, her siblings, and uncle transform an empty lot into a vegetable garden.

Join Little Lobo and his friends as they attend an out-of-this-world book festival hosted by the Guadalupian Library. 

One Cherokee child celebrates the family tradition of gathering wild onions for a big community meal.