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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...

2023 ALA Best Graphic Novels for Children

The daughter of a river god, raised by a human father and bound to a tragic destiny. An African fantasy-adventure graphic novel inspired by the mythology of the Zambezi River and the history of the Kariba Dam, one of the largest dams ever...

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
A 2024 Skipping Stones Honor Award winner
Winner of The Next Generation Indie Book Award
A Nile Book Award nominee for the White Nile Book Award

From the award-winning author of Small Mercies, named a Best Middle-Grade Book of 2020 by Kirkus...

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When a missing person’s case becomes a hunt for an active serial killer, Detective Kaitlyn Kruse must use her greatest asset: a supernatural ability to remember her past lives. But the killer may be closer to home than she’s willing to believe.

When a...

The sheer brutality of the crime scene was surprising. The features of the body resting in the road at the end of a trail of debris were erased by friction. Clothing and body parts left strewn along a gut wrenching path of blood. No skid marks. No calls to 911. No accident. This was...

Join Chip the dog and Chatti the cat on their first adventure in the countryside — which soon becomes a race against the clock to help new friends in need!

Since their family left them in this strange new home, Chip the dog and Chatti the cat have been feeling stuck. So when they meet Twinkle, a...

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Nonfiction narratives of all types

Skipping Stones Award Book 2024

Hi!! I'm Epi Dermis, but my friends just call me Skin!

Raise your hands if you sweat, tan, itch, have hair, or have freckles!

I've been feeling pretty sensitive lately because everybody has something to say about me. But people don't always tell the truth.

My...

In an irreverent but loving treatise on the creatures of South Africa and beyond, David Muirhead features eccentric animal behaviors in his native home. Mixing folklore and legend with a heavy dose of science, Muirhead leaves no wart unexamined in these tales of unrespectable animals. A book for...

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.

In this side-splitting photo book, Bait is ready to...

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