Synopsis: A little cloud becomes all sorts of things--a sheep, an airplane, trees, a hat--before joining other clouds and raining.

Synopsis: From bestselling author and illustrator Eric Carle, the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, comes another classic tale about one very quiet cricket. A perfect gift to share with the child or grandchild in your life.One day a tiny cricket is born and meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. The tiny cricket tries to respond, but there is no sound. The quiet cricket then makes his way into the world, meeting one insect after another, each…

Synopsis: #1 New York Times bestseller • National Book Award winner • A modern classic of love and survival, Sophie’s Choice follows a young writer drawn into the orbit of a Holocaust survivor and her brilliant, unstable lover in postwar Brooklyn, and into the horrors of her complicated past in Nazi-occupied Poland. Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful…

Synopsis: Depicts a variety of baby animals, many with their mothers.

Synopsis: Shadowhunters and demons square off for the final showdown in the spellbinding, seductive conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary’s own brother. Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning…

Synopsis: This delightful board book, by the author of Giraffes Can’t Dance, features a collection of rhyming poems with colorful illustrations and is a wonderful way to introduce little ones to the animals and fish who live in and around the ocean.Children will love learning about marine life with these fun and snappy poems! This adorable and educational collection includes:·       Lively, colorful illustrations on every page·       Clever rhyming verses…

Synopsis: Simple text about animals that live in the sea.

Synopsis: Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students–whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse–Gruwell was the first person to treat them with dignity, to believe in their potential and help them see it themselves. Soon, their loyalty towards…

Synopsis: Love is a mortal sin, and the secrets of the past are deadly. Plunge into the third installment in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly).To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters—never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse,…

Synopsis: A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret. First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafes; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers…

Synopsis: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of Red at the Bone tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing poems.A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK • WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING BOOK AWARD • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST MIDDLE GRADE BOOK OF THE CENTURY“Moving and resonant . . . captivating.”—The Wall Street JournalI am born in Ohio butthe stories of South Carolina already runlike riversthrough my veins.Raised in…

Synopsis: Describes the cyclical visitations of elephant seals to Ano Nuevo Island in the Pacific Ocean and relates the experiences of a male pup from birth to early adulthood.

Synopsis: For use in schools and libraries only. In this counting book, increasingly larger groups of animals try to help a duck that is stuck in the sleepy, slimy marsh.

Synopsis: On April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape-shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self-delusions of his fellow passengers. The con artist assumes numerous identities — a disabled beggar, a charity fundraiser, a successful businessman, an urbane gentleman — to win over his not-entirely-innocent dupes. The central character's shifting identities, as fluid as the river itself, reflect broader aspects of…

Synopsis: "Negi," as the author's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macun in 1961 to live in a three-bedroom tenement apartment with seven siblings, an inquisitive grandmother,…