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Book cover for I Cannot Draw a Bicycle. A cat on a skateboard and a horse stare nervously at shapes.

This book can draw a lot of things like a wet puddle, bubble paper, a sand monster, and a giant pile of leaves. It can draw a cat on a skateboard and a horse wearing shoes, but it CANNOT draw a bicycle. This book cannot draw a bicycle because it has never seen a bicycle! However, it CAN draw shapes that can be moved around to make anything….

Book cover for The Bellwoods Game. Six sixth-graders walking in the dark surrounded by leaves.

In 1982 sixth grader Abigail Snook went into the woods of Fall Hollow and never came out. Every year since, three sixth graders are chosen to race against Abigail to ring a bell in the woods, otherwise misfortune falls upon the town for the whole year. In addition to protecting the town, whoever wins the game is granted a single wish….

Book cover for Nubby. Two hands pull a blue stuffed bunny in different directions.

Nubby

Nubby

July 6, 2023

Nubby is a stuffed rabbit who is over being dropped, dragged, torn, and used as a nose wipe, so he decides to leave his home for somewhere he is appreciated. He encounters many potential friends, including live rabbits and a magician, but he doesn’t find someone who appreciates him. Someone who holds him close and laughs and plays with him….

Book cover of Hamra & The Jungle of Memories by Hanna Alkaf

At Hamra’s house in Malaysia during the COVID-19 lockdown, the family is doing the best they can. Hamra is putting on a happy face despite her grandmother’s worsening memory lapses, her mom being stuck at the hospital where she works, and everyone forgetting Hamra’s 13th birthday. Things get even more complicated when Hamra goes into the jungle to run an errand,…

Book cover for Iceberg. The massive ship Titanic’s bow looms behind a young woman.

Iceberg

Iceberg

June 22, 2023

If you like your historical fiction with an element of mystery, Iceberg is your book.  12-year-old Hazel Rothbury is travelling on the ill-fated Titanic by herself after having stowed away, sort of accidentally. Hazel wants to be a journalist someday, and right after the Titanic sets sail, she finds more than one mystery aboard that needs to be solved—and not just regarding the safety of the great ship itself!…