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by Barbara Ebel, M.D.

Fierce weather stalks Karen Puno and her dog, Putt-Putt, as they flee their home and reach the barrier island’s bridge where both their destinies change. Karen is about to give a woman named Jennifer Barns a gift that she’s been praying for … a new liver. As a cascading medical crisis begins, it interlocks the lives of Karen and Jennifer’s college-aged children, an anesthesiologist, a crafty surgeon, and a feisty pilot involved with the organ harvest procurement. Will Jennifer live through... more

Maxwell, the Raindrop Who Wouldn't Fall

by Joseph Moore

Maxwell is a raindrop. He does not want to simply fall like the other raindrops. He feels that, as a raindrop, he has little importance. He wants to be a bird, a rainbow or a flower. Throughout the story, the grandfatherly cloud tries to gently assure Maxwell that rain is a part of everything that he wants to be, so it is important for him to simply be himself. At the end of the story, all of the other raindrops have fallen and Maxwell sees a thirsty flower that was missed by the other raind... more

Duende

by Lizzie Eldridge

A Dream Away

by Frank Drury

Dobs and Nikki, reunited through Facebook after being apart for thirty years, are living happily in Laguna Beach, California with Nikki's two adopted teenage daughters, Allison and Jamie. Suddenly, fifteen year old Allison's birth mother appears at their front door and demands to have her daughter back. She had given her up for adoption fifteen years earlier. But now, ravaged with severe bipolar disorder, she wants her back at any cost. She attempts to have Nikki killed, thinking it would then b... more

10 Steps to Girlfriend Status

by Cynthia T. Toney

When Wendy questions her neighbor about one 1960s photograph, she opens the door to triple trouble—a Cajun family secret, feelings for two very different boys, and a fight to keep a grandmother’s love.

Wendy Robichaud is on schedule to have everything she wants at the start of high school: two loyal best friends, a complete and happy family, and a hunky boyfriend she’s had a crush on since eighth grade—until she and Mrs. Villaturo look at old photo albums togethe... more

8 Notes to a Nobody

by Cynthia T. Toney

Anonymous sticky-notes, a scheming bully, and a ruined summer send fourteen-year-old Wendy down a trail of secrets and self-discovery. Wendy Robichaud doesn't care one bit about being popular like good-looking classmates Tookie and the Sticks—until Brainiac bully John-Monster schemes against her, and someone leaves anonymous sticky-note messages all over school. Even the best friend she always counted on, Jennifer, is hiding something and pulling away. But the Spring Program, abandoned pupp... more

George Abides

by Hugh Johnson

"You're not a mass murderer, are you?" asks Fran, Geprge's luncheon pickup. "How many to make a mass?" asks George. Fran laughs as they enter L'Etoile Studio.

George Blair, a successful risk analyst, avidly pursues the elusive 'feminine mystique.' Viewing marriage as a risk, he nevertheless enjoys female company 'a la George.' Not a cozy story, rather his interesting ladies' encounters. With to... more

We Once Had Wings

by Jennifer Shun

Eight-year-old Joy wears her brother’s hand-me-downs and her knees skinned. She befriends the neighborhood misfit and together the two climb trees and dream about traveling to the faraway lands they see in National Geographic. Fifteen years later, the misfit returns from serving in the Second World War, and Joy falls headfirst into the repressing role of a 1950s housewife, of marriage and motherhood. When the death of her newborn son thrusts her into a deep depression, she pledges once and for a... more

Rough Water Baptism

by Albert Norton

Rough Water Baptism is about a dramatic shift in Elise Brinkley’s world. She has grown up in San Francisco, with her brilliant neuroscientist father, absorbing a worldview that insists that the material world is all there is. Her life is in some ways perfect, unperturbed by doubt, but her thinking is challenged as she experiences through her friend Joy a sense that there may be something more to this life. When she is swept up in a romance with the handsome and enigmatic Tino, she finds he is no... more

ABC: Robots of the Alphabet Planet

by Nakia Ngwala

Created from the imaginative mind of the young scholar Xander Ngwala, ABC: Robots of the Alphabet Planet teaches children ages 05 the letters of the alphabet. This book takes young readers to a place on a fantasy planet where each robot gives the name of who they are and the letter they represent. Each page of this children's book showcases colorful illustrations of a robot associated with a different letter of the alphabet from A to Z. This first ABC book teaches correct uppercase letter and lo... more

Broken Chains

by Emiliya Ahmadova

Forced to pay for the sins of her parents, Silvana abandons her Muslim faith for a chance at a new life.

She boards a plane to Kenya with the man of her dreams and never looks back. She thinks she's found her haven.

Feeling the warmth of the sun and traveling to different countries, Silvana discovers what it means to be free from stigmatization and gossips…

But when she learns his dark secrets, and sees his other side, thoughts of death born from her misery rest o... more

Can We Watch?

by S.A. Dymond

GOLD METAL WINNER at the 2017 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS in the CHILDREN--SOCIAL ISSUES category

Isabelle and Joe love to watch TV, but when the power goes out and the TV doesn't work, will they find other fun activities to do?

Vegetable Kids in the Garden

by Nancy J. Miller

Cousins Lucas and Emma love to spend time in their grandparents’ garden. One day, with the help of Grandpa and Nona (their grandmother), Lucas helps plant various vegetable seeds while learning about the uniqueness of each one. To his dismay, the plants aren’t ready by dinnertime, but he and Emma find plenty of fresh, scrumptious vegetables at the store. On another day, the two ride their bikes to Nona’s house again, but this time their friends Dylan and Zoe tag along, and the garden as a whole ... more

Elephant Wind

by Heather L. Beal

2018 Silver Medal Readers' Favorite Children's Social Issues

Mom's Choice Award

Lily and Niko Rabbit’s childcare class is at the elementary school science fair when a tornado warning happens. They learn how a tornado looks like an elephant trunk and sounds like a train. They also learn where they can go to be safe. When they find out the tornado damaged a neighbor’s house, they come together to help in their own charming wa... more

Loreless

by P J Whittlesea

Part quest, part ghost story and part contemporary fable, author P J Whittlesea combines magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery. Have you lost your lore? Billy has. He's loreless. Indigenous urbanite Billy doesn't know much about his heritage and he's quite content to let it stay that way. One late night out changes all that. When Billy finds himself marooned in Central Australia on an outback highway, with only the stars and mosquitoes for compa... more

Uncle Otto

by Winfred Cook

Uncle Otto, written in memoir style tells the story of a black family escape from rural Beaumont Arkansas, around the turn of the century. Otto, the protagonist, reaches puberty in their new home St. Louis at the beginning of probation, and is pulled into a life of vice and crime. He manages to come away from that only to be struck down by a demented lover with poison, resulting in a stroke.

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