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  Bird Nerd

  Jennifer Ann Richter

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  Nyla sets out to win her school's bird watching competition, while balancing old friends with new in this heartfelt debut. 
    
  Nyla Braun has always been called a nerd at her Philadelphia school. But that hasn’t stopped her from pursuing her hobbies, especially when she has best friend Tasha by her side. When a birding tournament between Nyla’s class and a class from a suburban school is announced, Nyla sees her chance to get the respect she deserves. If they win, that is. The Burb Birders will be tough competition. 
    
  With the contest underway, Nyla soon catches the attention of the most popular girl in class, who also wants to win, setting off a chain of small disasters as Nyla tries to balance old friends and new and the pressure to be cool when you really just want to be yourself. 
    
  Told with warmth and gentle humor, debut author Jennifer Ann Richter’s Bird Nerd combines a deep love of nature and birding with the story of a young girl learning to discover her own confidence and values. 
    
  “In her debut, Richter skillfully addresses mild tensions … and shows how common interests can unite people. With clear, descriptive writing, a tight storyline, and plenty of bird-related information, readers may feel inspired to explore birding, too.”—Kirkus Reviews

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  Upstaged

  Diana Harmon Asher

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  Shira Gordon is painfully shy. She rarely speaks and blushes at everything. And yet, when she’s alone in her room, she’ll sing and dance, dreaming she were different. So when her best friend forces her to audition for their school’s production of The Music Man, she’s mostly hoping the play will get canceled … but a tiny part of her hopes she’ll get in. 
   
  And she does. As a member of the barbershop quartet. Playing a dude with a mustache is not exactly her dream role, but Shira is surprised by how much she loves rehearsing with her quirky new friends. When her teacher asks her to understudy the lead role, Marian the Librarian, she reluctantly accepts. 
   
  It’s not easy to understudy Monica Manley, an eighth-grade diva who will not be upstaged. And things get even more complicated when a mysterious prankster starts playing tricks on Monica and Shira’s crush joins the cast. But something keeps Shira going, and it might just be Marian herself. Sure, Marian is a leading lady, but she’s also misunderstood, lonely … and shy. And if a star can be shy, then maybe, just maybe, a shy person can be a star.

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  A Sweet Surprise

  Brittany Smith

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  Do you like sugar as much as Sam does? How much? Follow Sam as he discovers many sweet treats and surprises throughout his day. A giraffe in purple pyjamas, chocolate crocodiles and some gummy snakes are only the start. Is there ever a thing as too much sugar? Join Sam throughout his day and see. 

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  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: Book...

  Jack Rylan

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  This audiobook is an independent and unofficial overview, created solely for educational and informational purposes. It is not associated with, authorized by, or endorsed by the original author or publisher.
  
   
  In this vibrant and rhythmic alphabet adventure, all the letters of the alphabet race one another up a coconut tree—only to come crashing down in a lively and colorful pile. With its playful rhymes, bold illustrations, and irresistible energy, this classic picture book turns learning the ABCs into a joyful, musical experience that delights readers young and old.

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  Starry Starry Heist

  Karen Briner

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  Max Rose-Rodriguez has more important things to do than finishing sixth grade—like stopping the biggest art heist the universe has ever known. 
   
  Sixth-grader Max has it rough between tormentors at school and his sick—ever-worsening—mom at home. But then DZ, a strange, tuxedoed man with one shoe, appears to Max from the future and divulges that Max’s mother’s fate is somehow entwined with that of Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night. It’s suddenly clear to Max that any problems he already had on his plate have just gotten bigger. 
   
  DZ explains to Max that someone is after The Starry Night. . . and the thief is not bound by the usual laws of time and space. 
   
  “I have questions,” Max tells DZ. But DZ can’t offer too many specifics. What he can provide Max is a cryptic to-do list: 
   
  Read The Future Time Traveler’s Guide to the Past 
  Consider the puffins 
  Beware the Wretch with obsidian eyes. 
  Befriend Vincent van Gogh 
   
  Although he’s skeptical, Max tries his very best. After all, he’ll do anything to help his mom. But he soon discovers that The Future Time Traveler’s Guide to the Past has never been published. And he’s not exactly sure where he’s going to find puffins in LA, let alone consider them. He has no idea what a Wretch is. And . . . befriend Vincent van Gogh? DZ is asking the impossible. 
   
  Then, one afternoon at the library, Max spots her: Turquoise-haired Maybe Wells, dressed in blue from head to toe, spattered in paint, carrying a skateboard, and sporting a beautiful tattoo of puffins on her right shoulder. 
   
  Max considers those puffins. 
   
  And suddenly, achieving the impossible doesn’t seem so farfetched anymore. 
   
  In this quirky, clever, and arrestingly heartfelt adventure through time, readers will find themselves cheering for the underdog at every turn—whether that underdog is Max, Maybe, a picnic hippo named Thelma, or a certain post-impressionist who, in 1889, painted his most famous work under a twinkling night sky in Arles.

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  Battle of the Artisans - Making...

  Irene Vinyard Bennett

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  BATTLE OF THE ARTISANS: MAKING THE BELLS OF MARQUIS YI tells the story of Tangtun, a conflicted, artistic twelve-year-old in 5th-century BCE China, who sets out to save his father from a killer. He crosses wits with his macho father and a vengeful king, armed thieves, and disgruntled villagers, and in the process, discovers new powers that rock his Bronze-Age world. In the end, what matters most is not Tangtun’s artistic abilities or his father’s muscles and might but that they realize the strength of acting together. 
  This novel portrays the making of the very real Bells of Marquis Yi, a 2500-year- old National Treasure of China. No one knows exactly why these bells were made, but Bennett provides a well-researched and persuasive solution to the mystery through her story of Tangtun and his village on the Yangtze River. 
  Every historical novel is an imagined introduction to a topic and a time. BATTLE OF THE ARTISANS invites readers to explore further the world and the science of the bells of Marquis Yi, to learn more about the early history of China, and to consider implications for the power of family and community. The author hopes that readers will connect with Tangtun and his world in ways that will enrich them and their own worlds.

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