by Christina Baker Kline
Follow the story of a young girl in foster care who forms an unlikely bond with a ninety-one-year old orphan-train rider.
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Orphan Train Girl: The Young Reader’s Edition
Category Archives: New Children Books
The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming
by J. Anderson Coats
High-spirited young Jane is excited to be part of Mr. Mercer’s plan to bring Civil War widows and orphans to Washington Territory–but life out west isn’t at all what she expected.
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7 Ate 9: The Untold Story
by Tara Lazar
Everyone knows that 7 is always after 6. Word on the street is that 7 ate 9. If that’s true, 6’s days are numbered.
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Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. Ever.
by Betsy Bird
An anthology of humourous short stories, personal essays, comics, poems, and more, by twenty-five of the funniest women writing for kids today.
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Mary Anning’s Curiosity
by Monica Kulling
Mary Anning, considered the world’s greatest fossilist, discovered her first big find at the age of twelve. This novel is an imaginative recreation of her childhood in early nineteenth-century Lyme Regis.
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Double or Nothing with the Two and Only Kelly Twins
by Johanna Hurwitz
What’s the same about identical twins and what’s different? Sleepovers, poetry projects, and new haircuts are in play as seven-year-old Arlene and Ilene start coming into their own.
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Princess Cora and the Crocdile
by Laura Amy Schlitz
A Newberry Medalist and a Caldecott Medalist join forces to give an overscheduled princess a day off- and a deliciously wicked crocodile a day on.
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Charlie and Mouse
by Laurel Snyder
Join Charlie and Mouse in their very first book as they talk to lumps, take the neighborhood to a party, sell some rocks, and invent the bedtime banana.
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Poor Louie
by Tony Fucile
Poor Louie! Life is perfect for this pup until Mom’s belly starts getting bigger…A funny and touching tale for big siblings.
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Frankie
by Mary Sullivan
Frankie is a shelter puppy who’s just arrived at his new home. What ensues is a laugh-out-loud war of the noses, as Frankie creatively attempts to find his place.
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