National Network for Equitable Library Service

It's the turn of the century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement abounds for five young sisters-Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie.

The Association of Small Bombs is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in empathy, dazzling in acuity, and ambitious in scope.When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana,

Meet the Wu family—father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao.

National Book Award-winner Ha Jin brings us a collection of stories that delve into the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America.

Princess Anidori-Kiladra of Kildenree was born with a word on her tongue and a secret magic.

Clare's grown very fond of Alfred Glockner, the part-time comic and genuinely jolly charity Santa who's been using her coffeehouse as a place to warm his mittens.

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice.

Rescued from an animal shelter on the first night of Hanukkah, Latke has trouble learning the house rules. Despite a series of mishaps, he is one Lucky Dog!

Lilly loves school, and she especially loves her teacher, Mr. Slinger. When Lilly gets a purple plastic purse and brings it to school, she wants to show it to everyone. Mr.

Mia is not sure what to think when her Abuela comes to live with her family in the city.

In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people . . . people like the boy, Salva Dut . . . caught in the middle.

A little mouse thinks her name is absolutely perfect until she starts school and all the kids make fun of her.

Tess knows that the only thing that can fix the listless vines, the crackling dry path, the broiling alleyway and her sagging mama, is a good, soaking rainstorm.

Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R.

GIRLS OF RIYADH was released in Lebanon in Arabic in 2005. The novel, about women from Saudi Arabia’s upper classes, immediately became a sensation all over the Arab world.