Winner at the 2016 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards “Bear wants to fly!” is the amazing news that has all of the forest animals talking. Some of them think it’s impossible, but . . .why not give it a try? Bear Wants to Fly is an emotional tale about the benefits of working as a team, and the importance of fighting for your dreams, however impossible they may seem. Guided Reading Level: O, Lexile Level: 690L

In this marvelous children?s book The Little Bear Who Wanted to Fly, Cubby is a little bear with a serious problem. He is gifted with an amazing curiosity and an imagination that quite often leads him intoadventures that even he couldn?t imagine. Sitting high up on a limb in the tallest pine tree in the forest, Cubby tries tounderstand what hesees. His two loyal friends Chatter and Crunch busily study Cubby. ?Now what is he thinking about?? they ask. He is always daydreaming and using his imagination to try and solve mysteries that only he ponders. Chatter and Crunch have noticed that Cubby has been more mysterious than usual. What must he be trying to figure out? His two friends are determined to find out. Little do they know that they are going to play a huge part in Cubby?s new and most exciting adventure!The Little Bear Who Wanted to Fly challenges its readers to dream ? and dream big ? that no dream is too big or out of reach. The book inspires all children and adults alike to reach for the sky and believe in the impossible.

The heart-warming story of a very small bear with a very big dream!

Flip-Flop the penguin wants to fly so badly, he makes himself wings, but they don't help. When his pal Polar Bear pushes him down their favorite slide, Flip-Flop unexpectedly lands in the sea. Suddenly he finds he can do something thats a lot like flying. Full color.

Who says dogs can’t fly? Meet Zora: a dog with a big dream and an even bigger personality. All Zora wants to do is learn how to fly so she can catch that pesky squirrel in her yard. But try as she might to prove to her friend Tully—a skeptical cat—that dogs truly can fly, nothing seems to work. Until Zora finds the right motivation, that is. Kathy Stinson’s charming story of perseverance is beautifully brought to life by Brandon James Scott’s exuberant and wonderfully expressive illustration. Touching on themes of optimism and determination in the face of failure, The Dog Who Wanted to Fly is a book anyone—even a cat—will love.

From the author of Blind, a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story set during World War II in Shanghai, one of the only places Jews without visas could find refuge. Warsaw, Poland. The year is 1940 and Lillia is fifteen when her mother, Alenka, disappears and her father flees with Lillia and her younger sister, Naomi, to Shanghai, one of the few places that will accept Jews without visas. There they struggle to make a life; they have no money, there is little work, no decent place to live, a culture that doesn't understand them. And always the worry about Alenka. How will she find them? Is she still alive? Meanwhile Lillia is growing up, trying to care for Naomi, whose development is frighteningly slow, in part from malnourishment. Lillia finds an outlet for her artistic talent by making puppets, remembering the happy days in Warsaw when her family was circus performers. She attends school sporadically, makes friends with Wei, a Chinese boy, and finds work as a performer at a "gentlemen's club" without her father's knowledge. But meanwhile the conflict grows more intense as the Americans declare war and the Japanese force the Americans in Shanghai into camps. More bombing, more death. Can they survive, caught in the crossfire?