by Betsey | Jul 7, 2021 | Bookmarks, elementary, middle grades
Purchase Becoming Vanessa, written and illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, at Bookmarks. This story will help kids just starting school transform from timid caterpillars into beautiful butterflies so they can love who they are. On Vanessa’s first day of...
by Betsey | Jun 10, 2021 | Bookmarks, elementary, middle grades
Purchase Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds at Bookmarks. From National Book Award finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions kids’ walks home can take. This story was going to...
by Betsey | Jan 24, 2021 | middle grades
Purchase Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly at Bookmarks. In the spirit of modern-day classics like Fish in a Tree and Counting by 7s comes the Schneider Family Book Award-winning story of a deaf girl’s connection to a whale whose song can’t be heard by his...
by Betsey | Dec 16, 2020 | Bookmarks, elementary, middle grades
Purchase The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser at Bookmarks. The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It’s practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to...
by Betsey | Sep 20, 2020 | Bookmarks, middle grades, teen
Purchase Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky at Bookmarks // By Kwame Mbalia. Winner of a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia’s epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world...
by Betsey | Aug 16, 2020 | middle grades, teen
Purchase Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation at Bookmarks // By Anne Frank (text by), David Polonsky (illustrator), Ari Fulman (adapted by) A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young...
