Going to the library is so much fun, especially when crafts are involved! Readers will delight in this fiction title, which follows a relatable narrator and their friends and family as they visit the library. Read along as the cast of characters makes crafts at their local library and learns why it’s such a special place in their community. The accessible text and engaging illustrations are perfect for beginning readers and for reading out loud to younger children.

The library is a great place to read, relax, and learn. Library visitors don�t need to be silent, but it�s important to use good manners. This book takes young readers on a trip to the local library with relatable characters and familiar situations. Children will learn about cleaning up after themselves, covering their mouth when they cough, and holding doors open for others. Accessible text and engaging illustrations bring the story to life on each page. Readers will be excited to use their good manners on their next library trip.

Pre-K is a great place to be, as readers will learn in this delightful fiction title. Readers are invited to spend a day at school with a relatable narrator and their friends. Readers join in on the fun as the colorful cast of characters learn, read stories, and play outside. Accessible text makes this text fun to read, while colorful illustrations bring the story to life. This title is perfect for introducing young children to the exciting things Pre-K offers, and is also great for reading out loud to younger children.

A children’s museum is one of the most exciting places in a community. In this new fiction title, a colorful cast of character visits a local children’s museum. Readers join in on the fun as the narrator and their family learn about bugs, rocks, and more. Age-appropriate language and detailed illustrations bring this fun narrative to life. By the end of this book, readers will want to go to the museum in their community, too!

Everyone loves going to the zoo, especially the narrator in this new fiction title. The characters in this book spend a sunny day at the zoo, where they meet elephants, monkeys, penguins, and more! Readers will delight as the characters encounter new animals and will cheer at the exciting sea lion show. Accessible text and colorful illustrations brings this visit to the zoo to life. This text is perfect for beginning readers and for reading together with younger children.

Finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters’s Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Fiction A Long Petal of the Sea meets Cold Mountain in this “epic and exquisitely wrought” (Patricia Engel, New York Times bestselling author) saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, at first for their survival and then for their love, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War—from the author of The Distance Between Us. A forgotten war. An unforgettable romance. The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with México over the disputed Río Grande boundary. Ximena Salomé is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husband’s memory and defend her country, Ximena uses her healing skills as a nurse on the frontlines of the ravaging war. Meanwhile, John Riley, an Irish immigrant in the Yankee army desperate to help his family escape the famine devastating his homeland, is sickened by the unjust war and the unspeakable atrocities against his countrymen by nativist officers. In a bold act of defiance, he swims across the Río Grande and joins the Mexican Army—a desertion punishable by execution. He forms the St. Patrick’s Battalion, a band of Irish soldiers willing to fight to the death for México’s freedom. When Ximena and John meet, a dangerous attraction blooms between them. As the war intensifies, so does their passion. Swept up by forces with the power to change history, they fight not only for the fate of a nation but for their future together. “A grand and soulful novel by a storyteller who has hit her full stride” (Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of the Butterflies), A Ballad of Love and Glory effortlessly illuminates a largely forgotten moment in history that impacts the US–México border to this day.

Going to the library is so much fun, especially when crafts are involved! Readers will delight in this fiction title, which follows a relatable narrator and their friends and family as they visit the library. Read along as the cast of characters makes crafts at their local library and learns why it’s such a special place in their community. The accessible text and engaging illustrations are perfect for beginning readers and for reading out loud to younger children.