One Word from Sophia

One Word from SophiaSophia tries varied techniques to get the giraffe she wants more than anything in this playfully illustrated story about the nuances of negotiation. Sophia has one true desire for her birthday. But she has Four Big Problems in the way: Mom, Dad, Uncle Conrad and Grand mama. Will her presentations, proposals, and pie charts convince them otherwise? Turns out, all it takes is one word.

Her brother

New York Times best-seller Karina Yan Glaser brings everyone’s favorite Harlem family back in this poignant fourth novel in the “delightful and heartwarming” (New York Times Book Review) Vanderbeekers series

including Kwame Alexander

but they’re still brothers

But while Augustus and his family were free

And why are bugs so important to our world

These nonfiction books skillfully guide middle schoolers through those tricky years between elementary and high school with a supporting voice of a trusted big sister or a favorite aunt

embrace their unique selves

Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s in the police report

But when they hear a classmate in trouble in the woods

and the whisper of cold wind on budding lilac bushes

pitting them against influential and powerful alchemists—Ash’s estranged father included