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From award winning children’s writer Niki Daly, author and illustrator of the Lolo early reader series 

Skipping Stones Award Book 2024

Whether it’s jumping in puddles with Tata in the rain, greeting the neighborhood cat on the quiet back streets with Gogo, or holding hands...

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
A 2024 Skipping Stones Honor Award winner
Winner of The Next Generation Indie Book Award
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From the award-winning author of Small Mercies, named a Best Middle-Grade Book of 2020 by Kirkus...

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A big-hearted coming-of-age debut about a tiger, a Russian, a model airplane, unexplainable disaster, and a bewildered twelve-year-old boy just trying to find his place in the world...

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A Booklist Starred Review

A big-hearted coming-of-age debut about a tiger, a Russian, a model airplane, unexplainable disaster, and a bewildered twelve-year-old boy just trying to find his place in the world...

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A Booklist Starred Review

A big-hearted coming-of-age debut about a tiger, a Russian, a model airplane, unexplainable disaster, and a bewildered twelve-year-old boy just trying to find his place in the world...

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Introducing Bait, the little toad with a big personality.


Bait the toad loves the camera, and the camera certainly loves him! From his river-bed roots to TikTok stardom, Bait has never found a pose he couldn’t slay, or a hat he couldn’t style.

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Introducing Bait, the little toad with a big personality.


Bait the toad loves the camera, and the camera certainly loves him! From his river-bed roots to TikTok stardom, Bait has never found a pose he couldn’t slay, or a hat he couldn’t style.

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