Sarah Templeton dreams of escaping a Tennessee town where the kids call her “slanty eyes” or ignore her because she is the only Japanese-American anyone has ever seen. She never defends herself because she cries too easily like her Japanese mother. She wishes she were more like her father whose temper she mistakes for strength. Sarah’s dad keeps secrets about his new job but Sarah hears rumors about accidents at the plant and sick employees. When a strange cloud of gas floats out of the plant and drifts toward town, everyone panics. Sarah forgets her own troubles when her mom who falls into a deep depression after the crisis is over. Sarah understand her mother’s fear of the accident at the plant when she learns about the bomb that destroyed her mother’s in home in Nagasaki. Sarah’s mom recovers enough for a visit to Sarah’s school, but the sound of the fire alarm reminds her mom of the air raid sirens she heard during the World War II. When her mother refuses to leave the school, Sarah has to find a way to wake her mother from the past. As Sarah realizes her mother’s inner strength, she begins to embrace her heritage.

From award-winning author Carole P. Roman comes a new chapter book featuring Susannah Logan, a young student having a very bad day. It all begins with homework trouble and an invitation to a sleepover that she doesn't want to go to. Would you want to go to a sleepover in a creepy house? Rather than dealing with her problems, Susannah stuffs them into her backpack. But how much can a backpack take? Will she be able to confront her worries before the backpack bursts? Or will she just continue to hide them away? Join Susannah and her friends in this story sure to charm busy young readers everywhere.

Four friends led by Spartan, made contact with a race of alien explorers, who communicate with them via an egg-shaped spaceship that is itself an organic alien being with powerful technology. In Book 1 they go to the Amazonian rainforest.

   

SAMI, the magical teddy bear comes to the aid of children who feel alone and who are facing troubling events that occur in the course of their lives. Today, SAMI intervenes in the life of Laurie facing illness and offers his support and helps her to get through these difficult times.

From award-winning author Carole P. Roman comes a new chapter book featuring Susannah Logan, a young student having a very bad day. It all begins with homework trouble and an invitation to a sleepover that she doesn't want to go to. Would you want to go to a sleepover in a creepy house? Rather than dealing with her problems, Susannah stuffs them into her backpack. But how much can a backpack take? Will she be able to confront her worries before the backpack bursts? Or will she just continue to hide them away? Join Susannah and her friends in this story sure to charm busy young readers everywhere.

The forgotten forest of Oldenglen, tucked in the foothills of southern Oregon, is forgotten no longer. A rogue wolf pack and its ruthless leader have claimed it as their territory, threatening forever the balance of life in the magical glen.

In this third book in The Oldenglen Chronicles middle-grade fantasy series, schoolboy Jax feels the lure of the pack. The wild wolf within him—born of a nip his father received as a boy, then passed through his genes to Jax—strains to run with the invaders. But loyal to the glen, he and best friend Sarah plead with the woodfolk to fight back and summon the Far Glen wolf pack—whose bloodline owes the glen a debt from long ago—to oust the raiders.

Wolf is pitted against wolf when the Far Glen pack answers the woodfolk’s plea for help. But a far deadlier peril awaits. The rogue pack’s hunting of livestock on farms around the glen has drawn the eye of state and federal wildlife agents. When they surround the glen to cull the rogue wolves, both packs are trapped within its tall stone cliffs. With the lethal cordon drawing tight, Jax and Sarah desperately maneuver to save the wolves they love and keep hidden the secrets of the glen.

Nickerbacher is a dragon and aspiring comedian who travels to La La Land to audition for The Late Knight Show. He hopes to prove to his father -- and the world -- that dragons can be funny. Nickerbacher befriends a prince and a princess who help him realize his dream while paving the way for equal rights of all citizens.