Pura Belpré Award winnerBoston Globe-Horn Book HonorBooklist Editors' ChoiceNYPL 100 Best Children's BookALA Notable Children's BookIRA Notable Children's Books for a Global SocietyKirkus Best Children's BookPen Center USA Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult LiteratureWinner of the 2011 Pure Belpre Award for fiction now in an elegant paperback edition!From the time he is a young boy, Neftali hears the call of a mysterious voice. He knows he must follow it--even when the neighborhood children taunt him, and when his harsh, authoritarian father ridicules him, and when he doubts himself. It leads him under the canopy of the lush rain forest, into the fearsome sea, and through the persistent Chilean rain, until finally, he discovers its source.Combining elements of magical realism with biography, poetry, literary fiction, and sensorial, transporting illustrations, Pam Munoz Ryan and Peter Sis take readers on a rare journey of the heart and imagination.
A little girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all
The Curious George Discovers series is all about discovery, adventure, and having fun with learning! Come along as Curious George learns all about recycling and keeping our planet clean.
George’s friend Chef Pisghetti makes the most delicious vegetable soup! When the chef is running low on fresh vegetables, George wants to lend a hand in the rooftop garden—but he has a lot to learn ab
Winter is closing in and George is miserable. How is he going to survive without all the fun summertime activities he loves? When he decides to ignore the weather and play with his wading pool and bub
George loves summer nights in the country—that's where he does his best stargazing. When his friend Bill says that nobody knows how many stars there are, George is determined to count! But how w
The Rainbow Fish series has sold millions of copies world wide, and here he returns. When Rainbow Fish loses his last sparkling silver scale into the ocean's depths, he swims down to retrieve it, desp
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In this sequel to The Novice, Fletcher is put on trial by the Inquisition and discovers his tragic origins. Soon after, a competitive challenge is given by the King and his council to the graduating s
They say they always know you're up to something when the house goes quiet... Exploring his mother's dressing table, a little boy discovers THE LIPSTICK. It begins on his lips, where it looks very goo
He can summon demons. But can he win a war? Fletcher is working as a blacksmith's apprentice when he discovers he has the rare ability to summon demons from another world. Chased from his village for
