If Kamala Can, SO CAN I! From the newly-announced Young People’s Poet Laureate comes a powerful and inspiring picture book that shares how each milestone and moment in Kamala Harris’s life represents something that lies within young readers’ reach, too—building community, asking for answers, learning from elders, standing up for what’s right, pride, friendship, strength, and most of all—knowing that nothing is out of the reach of their future!

Hold onto your traps! The How to Catch series, with 16.5 million copies sold, brings readers the next How to Catch graphic novel adventure starring a hilarious duo! Time to catch the Easter Bunny with Pup and Dragon! A hilarious pup and bearded dragon duo star in the next standalone graphic novel story brought to you by the creators behind the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series! In this exhilarating Easter adventure, Pup and Dragon are trying to catch the Easter Bunny! Bursting with colorful art and funny text that is sure to appeal to How to Catch lovers and new young readers alike, this action-packed new title continues the expansion of the How to Catch brand into the booming graphic novel space.

From the best-selling creators of Unicorn Day comes a dino-mite celebration as all dinosaurs, big and small, celebrate Dinosaur Day! Hooray! Hooray! It’s Dino Day! The dinosaurs are on their way! The ground starts shaking- Here they come! Thumpa-bumpa, rum-tum-tum! Dino Day is finally here, and it’s dino-mite. On Dinosaur Day, dinosaurs love to stomp and chomp. But they like silly singing, rowdy swimming, and yummy desserts too. All this fun makes the baby dinos want to join, but something unexpected pops up. Will the dinos accept this new addition to keep Dino Day going?

Katie Sandwina lifted more than carousels and cannons—she also lifted up women everywhere! Discover her story: from her career as a circus strongwoman and pioneering athlete, to her steadfast loyalty to the suffragette movement. Even from a young age, Katie Brumbach was BIG and STRONG. She could lift heavy weights, bend steel bars, and lift several men at once! She boldly named herself “Katie Sandwina” after Eugen Sandow, the world’s strongest man, and her women’s record for an overhead lift of 296 pounds remained unbroken for over 75 years. In 1912, at the height of her American fame, she publicly rallied with her fellow circus performers for women’s suffrage. Hailed as a goddess-like figure by the press and circus audiences, Katie showed the world that being big and strong was beautiful.

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series comes the first Groundhog’s Day adventure! A new holiday adventure in the NYT and USA Today bestselling How to Catch series perfect to celebrate Groundhog’s Day! The How to Catch kids are playing outside when they accidentally wake the groundhog living in the park. When the Groundhog runs away, the kids realize that tomorrow is Groundhog’s Day and that if they don’t catch him and bring him back, the town won’t know when winter ends!

The instant New York Times bestseller and #1 Kids’ Indie Next Pick is now in paperback! Three friends team up to find a hidden treasure in an abandoned 1940’s funhouse in this fast-paced middle grade adventure, perfect for fans of The Goonies and The Inheritance Games. Twelve-year-old Sarah Greene wants nothing more than to spend seventh grade beating the hardest escape rooms alongside her best friends, West and Hannah. But when a foreclosure notice shows up on Sarah’s front door, everything changes. Now, her family will have to move away until they can get back on their feet, and all her plans will be put on hold. There is one way to get the money for her family…play the Delta Game. According to local legend, three identical brothers dreamt of building the most epic funhouse in existence. They wanted the experience to be more than mirror mazes and optical illusions, so they not only created elaborate riddles and secret passages, but they also claimed to have hidden a treasure inside the building-a prize for beating their game. The three friends decide to take on the challenge, but once inside, they realize the house is unlike any escape room they’ve attempted. There are challenges, yes, but they feel personal, almost like the brothers know them. It seems impossible, but so does everything about the house. As the trio climbs through trap doors, swings from wall-to-wall on ropes, and searches for hidden keys, Sarah worries they are in way over their heads…but there’s no turning back now, even if they wanted to.

Bestselling and beloved author Jen Calonita delivers the first in a brand new series featuring a girl who will inherit a mysterious fortune if she can break a centuries-old curse! Days after her twelfth birthday, Everly “Benny” Benedict learns she’s the heir to a fortune! But to collect the inheritance, she first has to play—and win—a game. Following clues that her ancestor left, Benny must locate a small island that vanished long ago, according to legend. She has only two weeks to play the game and find the island. If she’s successful, she’ll break a two-hundred-year-old curse. If she fails, the fortune will be forfeited. And if she’s not careful, she’ll cross paths with someone else who is after the island’s secrets, and who will stop at nothing to get them. Because, as it turns out, there’s far more than a fortune at stake.

Their love was written in the stars, but how is Lia to move on when death trumps fate? Everything I Promised You is an emotionally raw and romantic YA novel perfect for fans of Laura Nowlin’s If He Had Been with Me. Lia and Beck. Beck and Lia. Despite army-brat life orbiting them in and out of each other’s worlds, Lia knows they are destined to be together. It’s more than their friendship and chemistry. When Lia’s mom was a teen, a fortune teller said her daughter would fall in love with her best friend’s son. Lia and Beck were always meant to be. Or so they thought. When tragedy steals Beck away, Lia is devastated. She lived her life by her mom’s old fortune. If she was fated to be with Beck and he is gone, who is she supposed to be? And is there room in her broken heart for life, let alone new love?

From Marianne Richmond, the classic children’s book author who has touched the lives of more than six million readers, comes a new book about relishing the cusp of a new beginning, when you are poised to bring all of your unique gifts to the world. Each page in this gorgeous picture book covers a different aspect of “you” that will bring a different type of gift to the world: your style to embrace, your mind to think, your hands to help, your feet to take you to new places, your voice to cast your own vote, your story, your grace, your heart, your spirit, and your love. What will you do with your spark, to make your own mark? Not only for children, this book will inspire and ignite love in every heart.

Award-winning author Todd Sturgell returns with another irreverent, hilarious, and informative picture book that explains just how dinosaurs might have ended up in space! Dinosaur fossils are found all over the earth, and now they’re found in space! When the narrator explains about the big boom that caused dinosaur extinction, Dakota the dinosaur and his ragtag group of friends don’t want to hear it! Taking over the story—much to the narrator’s dismay—these dizzy dinos share their spacetastic theories about moon-sauruses, Martian dinosaurs, and…zombie-sauruses? This silly science lesson gone wrong is an amusing lesson based on real scientific theories. If Nasa sticks to schedule the manned mission to circle the moon will be November 2024, and then we’ll really know if Dinosaurs are in Space!

The text provides an entry point for teachers to introduce children to the habits of mind and action that support healthy brain growth. Your Fantastic Elastic Brain promotes several essential messages, namely: what children do on a daily basis affects the growth of their brains; brains require exercise and struggling to develop new skills contributes to brain growth; making mistakes is a positive experience that contributes to healthy brain growth.

A Common Core State Standards–Aligned Activity Guide for Grades Kindergarten, 1, and 2 The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes introduces readers to the idea of having a growth mind-set and that taking risks and sometimes making mistakes is part of how everyone learns and grows.

At each grade level, the lessons align with the Common Core State Standards Initiative for Speaking and Listening. The text exposes children to diverse cultures and fosters attitudes of curiosity and respect. Children learn how they are similar to their peers across the world, but also learn to explore and appreciate how they differ as well. What Does It Mean To Be Global? is a perfect starting point for relevant classroom activities. Classroom activities in this instructional unit tap into children’s various perspectives including: their senses, their talents and interests, their shared languages, and their values.

Prepare to be scared silly in this creepy middle-grade novel! Twins seek medical help in a remote village after their father is in a canoeing accident…only to discover the scarecrow that stands watch in town may have a stronger hold over the residents than expected. Perfect for fans of R.L. Stine, Dan Poblocki, and Mary Downing Hahn. Twins Oliver and Trisha love going on adventures with their dad. Canoeing and camping on the Champion River will be their best trip yet! But when they capsize in rapids, their father is knocked unconscious. Alone and without cell phone reception, their only choice is to continue down river for help. Hours of paddling brings them to an old dock, and a narrow path leads them to a small village. The townspeople are kind and helpful, but strangely focused on the giant scarecrow in the village square. “He watches over us,” the twins are told in whispers. “He keeps us safe.” An old woman warns the twins not to spend the night in the village. Not if they ever want to leave. But with the sun soon to set and their father not well enough to be moved, how can they escape? More importantly, can they survive?

In this clever picture book tale about the power of representation, a red panda decides to write her own story when she realizes that none of the other panda books include pandas that look like her. When Red discovers a new book about pandas, she can’t wait to read it! Except it’s about only one kind of panda, and red pandas are completely left out. Red never gets to read stories about pandas like herself! So she decides to take matters into her own paws and write her own book. But when Red looks around, it seems like the only kind of pandas the world cares about are the black and white kind. Will anyone want to read about red pandas? It’s up to Red to finish her story and share it with the world!

**From the TikTok sensation author of the Magnolia Parks Universe comes a reimagining of Peter Pan brimming with whimsy, magic, and romance. Daphne, descendant of Wendy Darling, navigates Neverland and her complicated relationships with Peter Pan and the son of Captain Hook. Never…is an awfully long time.** Growing up, Daphne always knew Peter Pan would come for her. The way he’d come for her mother, and her grandmother Wendy before that. The Darling girls. Their stories are all the same: the forever-young boy at their window after their thirteenth birthday, and the shimmering, magical land behind a star. When Peter doesn’t show for Daphne until she’s seventeen, inexplicably full-grown and with no excuse for his tardiness, Daphne doesn’t know what to think. Still, she has always been told that Peter Pan is her destiny. It’s beyond choice to take his hand and leap into the stars, no matter what comes next. But in Neverland, Peter’s true colors begin to show. One moment, he’s making Daphne’s heart flutter, and the next, he’s forgotten her entirely. So when Daphne stumbles into the path of Jamison Hook, the pirate son of Peter’s nemesis, she lets herself get swept up in his vulgar charm, despite the warning signs. Both boys are trouble, and both have dangerous secrets about this strange fantasy land they call home—and if she loses her heart to either one, Daphne might just lose herself, too.

In this fantasy of Jazz Age Harlem, where warring factions of oligarchs, gangsters, and vampires vie for power and control, a young vampire and the girl who once betrayed her are drawn to one another. It’s 1926 and reapers, the once-human vampires with a terrifying affliction, are on the rise in New York. But the Saint family’s thriving reaper-hunting enterprise holds reign over the city, more powerful than even the organized criminals who run the nightclubs. Eighteen year-old Elise Saint, home after five years in Paris, is the reluctant heir to the empire. Only one thing weighs heavier on Elise’s mind than her family obligations: the knowledge that the Harlem reapers want her dead. Layla Quinn is a young reaper haunted by her past. Though reapers have existed in America for three centuries, created by New World atrocities and cruel experiments, Layla became one just five years ago. The night she was turned, she lost her parents, the protection of the Saints, and her humanity, and she’ll never forget how Elise Saint betrayed her. But some reapers are inexplicably turning part human again, leaving a wake of mysterious and brutal killings. When Layla is framed for one of these attacks, the Saint patriarch offers her a deal she can’t refuse: to work with Elise to investigate how these murders might be linked to shocking rumors of a reaper cure. Once close friends, now bitter enemies, Elise and Layla explore the city’s underworld, confronting their intense feelings for one another, and uncovering the sinister truths about a growing threat to reapers and humans alike.

Based on a true story, the tale of one girl’s perilous journey to cross the U.S. border and lead her family to safety during the Mexican Revolution It is 1913, and twelve-year-old Petra Luna’s mama has died while the Revolution rages in Mexico. Before her papa is dragged away by soldiers, Petra vows to him that she will care for the family she has left—her abuelita, little sister Amelia, and baby brother Luisito—until they can be reunited. They flee north through the unforgiving desert as their town burns, searching for safe harbor in a world that offers none. Each night when Petra closes her eyes, she holds her dreams close, especially her long-held desire to learn to read. Abuelita calls these barefoot dreams: “They’re like us barefoot peasants and indios—they’re not meant to go far.” But Petra refuses to listen. Through battlefields and deserts, hunger and fear, Petra will stop at nothing to keep her family safe and lead them to a better life across the U.S. border—a life where her barefoot dreams could finally become reality.

You Are Awesome sets out to inspire and empower kids to change their mindset, find their confidence, and achieve their potential. From motivating students to try a new hobby or sport, to building confidence and resilience before the transition to middle-school, You Are Awesome provides lots of opportunities for activities and discussion.

**“This book should be required reading. Not only is this message great for kids, but it’s also a powerful reminder of how caring adults can help children feel safer.” --Loanna Davis, director of children’s programs, Futures Without Violence You have the power to protect yourself and others!** What does it mean to be safe? Does it mean beating a throw to home plate? Does it mean never taking risks? No! Being safe is about feeling secure, feeling protected and being responsive—no matter the environment or situation. You can be safe in so many simple ways. From being aware of your limits to creating healthy boundaries. By not giving in to peer pressure and by standing up to bullies. And by being safe on the Internet, or knowing the right time to get a caring adult’s help. This addition to the award-winning What Does It Mean to Be…? series is the perfect book to spark meaningful dialogue and ensure every child knows what it means to be safe.