While looking for her beloved puppy, Poco, one winter day, young Mia discovers how beautiful the world can be, as well as a way to make her own village of Campamento San Francisco more lovely and her family's life easier.

"Do you believe in magic? Sita and her friends do! And when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventure awaits. When Westport enters the Prettiest Small Town competition, mysterious things begin to happen at night. Can the Star Friends figure out who is behind the strange events?"--Back cover

Now in paperback: the acclaimed middle-grade novel tracing four generations of an Inupiaq family in Alaska, which the Washington Post praised as "a rare and beautiful book." ALASKA, 1917 Nutaaq adores her older sister, Aaluk, and the happy world of their close-knit Inupiaq village. When Aaluk goes across the sea to marry a Siberian Inuit man, she gives Nutaaq a gift from her husband's people: two precious cobalt blue beads. Through the months that...

Ten pięknie ilustrowany zbiór wierszy stanie się z pewnością ulubioną lekturą najmłodszych czytelników.

In an isolated mountain village, nine-year-old Maria and her grandfather rescue and raise a wolf cub, Shadow, and when Shadow eventually leaves to join his own kind, a stranger's words help Maria to accept that this is for the best.

"The townsfolk are always telling Freda to be more careful. They don't trust anything unknown or unusual--it could be dangerous. But Freda loves to explore new and strange things, which is how she makes lots of wonderful discoveries. One day she discovers a small, broken beetle. Freda befriends him and calls him Ernest. Ernest is new and strange, like many of the things that Freda loves, and turns out to be another wonderful discovery. As soon as...

Brisa the Breeze Fairy has been blown off-course without her wispy wind feather. Will Raquel and Cristina be able to find the feather and bring calm to the blustery village?

A new tale about the joy of making things, the strength of community and the warm reach of generosity.

"THE LITTLE REGENT begins with a short blurb, offering context on the Yoruba tradition of regency: “Among the Yoruba tribe of West Africa, when a king dies without a son, his daughter will rule until the kingmakers choose a new king. These female rulers are called regents.” The story begins when Abioye is declared the temporary ruler of her West African village following her father the king’s death, much to the chagrin of the village chiefs....