Esme's Birthday Conga Line

Esme's Birthday Conga LineBy: Lourdes Heuer Illustrator: Marissa Valdez Series: Esme! Esme always has a plan. A funny and sweet early illustrated chapter book about a problem solving girl who has to manage her own birthday bash. For fans of Dory Fantasmagory. Esme lives with her grandparents on the uppermost floor of the topmost best building. It's her birthday. Mimi and Pipo gave her a beautiful guitar. But they didn't plan a birthday party. Esme thinks this is the way with

underground culture

By: Peter Turner   | Series: National Geographic Traveler Travel to New Zealand to taste the islands' unique cuisine

and remained a practiced vamp well into her crowded later years

By: Louis Sachar | Illustrator:  Amy Wummer | Series: Marvin Redpost This chapter book in Newbery Honor–winning and bestselling author Louis Sachar’s Marvin Redpost series is getting magical…or is it

By: Henry Grabar     Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize

bestselling Women of the Otherworld series

While other books in the series play famous pieces of classical music

and setting boundaries for healthy relationships

and never letting go of one’s dreams

Rebecca West

after inadvertently breaking her sister’s debutante spell—an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic—Anna finds herself exiled to her family’s once powerful but now crumbling native Hungary

Llewellyn soon discovers that life is more colorful when he sets his emotions free