Summer is over and Dad begins his important position at an Indiana hospital. Like it or not, Bloomington is the Baxter Family’s new home. As school starts, everyone finds reasons to be excited about the move. Everyone that is except Ashley. Ashley desperately misses the home and friends she left behind. As she realizes her siblings have their struggles, too, she can’t help but wonder if unlikely friends can be the best friends of all? And could time and love from her family be enough to make a house feel like home?
2021-2022 Crown Award
Reading Level: 3.2
Published by Simon & Schuster
Copyright February 25, 2020
ISBN# 9781534412187 (HB)
Meet women who have used their God-given talents to live out their faith to the fullest. They come from a variety of backgrounds, eras, and ethnicities, but each one has answered the Lord’s call on their life in bold and innovative ways.
2021-2022 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Harvest House
Copyright January 7, 2020
ISBN# 9780736977340 (HB)
William Still’s parents escaped slavery but had to leave two of their children behind, a tragedy that haunted the family. As a young man, William went to work for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, where he raised money, planned rescues, and helped freedom seekers who had traveled north. And then one day, a strangely familiar man came into William’s office, searching for information about his long-lost family. Could it be?
2021-2022 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Peachtree
Copyright November 1, 2020
ISBN# 9781561459353 (HB)
Izzy Gizmo has been invited to Technoff Isle’s Genius Convention where the inventor of the best machine will win coveted admittance to the Genius Guild. But with fearsome foe Abi von Lavish getting the best of her at every turn, how can Izzy and Fixer come up with the winning invention?
2021-2022 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Peachtree
Copyright March 1, 2020
ISBN# 9781471145230 (HB)
Chip the potato chip is sure he has the annual Spud City Festival sack race in the bag—he’s been practicing all year. The Home Fries (local baseball team) and Sweet Potatoes (cheer squad) are all rooting for him. The French Fries even bring their tots over for an autograph. But when Curly the springy curly fry shows up, Chip knows he’s in trouble. This totally funny story is filled with clever potato puns—and subtle themes of sportsmanship and persistence. It will have kids and adults alike laughing out loud.
2021-2022 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 2.9
Published by Sleeping Bear Press
Copyright May 15, 2019
ISBN# 9781585364084 (HB)
At a time when most African Americans were still enslaved, Charles Tindley was born free. His childhood was far from easy, with backbreaking hours in the fields, and no opportunity to go to school. But the spirituals he heard as he worked made him long to know how to read the Gospel for himself. Late at night, he taught himself to read from scraps of newspapers. From those small scraps, young Charles raised himself to become a founding father of American gospel music whose hymn was the basis for the Civil Rights anthem “We Shall Overcome.”
2021-2022 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 3.7
Published by Atheneum Books
Copyright January 14, 2020
ISBN# 9781534426368 (HB)
Hard-working Jiva might not be the only one anticipating a delicious feast of peas from his garden. Every morning, Jiva works in his garden until the sun turns as red as a bride’s sari. He plants peas and beans, potatoes and tomatoes, eggplants and okra in his vegetable patch. When his friend Ruvji admires his plants Jiva sings,
Plump peas, sweet peas,
Lined- up-in-the-shell peas.
Peas to munch, peas to crunch
A feast of peas for lunch.
But each time Jiva is ready to pick the peas for his feast, they’re already gone. What has happened?
2021-2022 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Peachtree
Copyright March 1, 2020
ISBN# 9781682631355 (HB)
When I Pray for You celebrates the dreams, hopes, and longings parents pray over their children, and shares with the little ones how much care and concern a loved one feels for them.
2021-2022 Gallery Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Waterbrook
Copyright February 19, 2019
ISBN# 9780525650584 (HB)
