"It's the third day of summer vacation, and Lark's halmoni--that's Korean for grandmother--has promised to take Lark and her twin brother, Connor, to the library. The only trouble is, they arrive to discover that Mrs. Robinson, the town librarian, has lost her key. Can rookie detectives Lark and Connor solve the mystery of the missing key?"--Back cover.

Mama takes her two daughters to the library every summer to pick out books about Black people so they can see the struggles, strength, and hope of people who look like them.

"Always lost in the shuffle of her large family, an eleven-year-old girl decides that this summer she'll make sure she stands out, and a discovery in the library basement may help"--

All his life Benji, now ten, has been sickly and he has long been targeted by the school bully, but after a seizure Benji gets a therapy dog that is not only big enough to protect him, it can also talk.

Rejecting the idea that she is destined to become a poet, 11-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis loses an important family secret hidden in a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems and forges unexpected connections while searching through used-book stores all across town. By the award-winning author of The Year the Swallows Came Early.

"Eighteen-year-old ex-friends, Saine and Holden, are forced to work together on a documentary that threatens to reveal their true feelings." --

Colin leaves the school shouting with joy. Friday night is definitely the best day of the week, it's the beginning of the weekend. He is a red-haired, happy and very active little boy. His favorite activities are biking and swimming. For his 7th birthday, his parents gave him a skateboard, elbow pads, knee pads and even a helmet with a dragon on it. Grandma often calls her to ask her to be very careful. She thinks her daughter is being unreasonable. -...

Stella introduces her little brother Sam to the pleasures of reading.

Casey LaPlante wanted nothing to do with racecar driving. What was so impressive about making a bunch of left turns, one after another? But from what she had seen as the sister of Fliverton's newest stock-car hero, Wade "the Blade" LaPlante, her whole town was interested in little else. Next to her brother, she felt invisible. Even her parents seemed to ignore her athletic victories and academic successes. With so much of her family's income being...

After waiting for her baby brother to arrive, and then waiting for him to learn to talk, Hazel is disappointed in his first word.