Books and library resources to explore for creating activities and learning opportunities in an early childhood classroom.

Tiny Beautiful Things — Strayed, Cheryl, 1968- — "Tiny Beautiful Things collects the best of Dear Sugar in one volume, bringing her wisdom to many more readers. This tenth-anniversary edition features...

How to Read a Book — Wood, Monica, — "Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed. When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland-Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman-their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways. How to Read a Book is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives. With the heart, wit, grace, and depth of understanding that has characterized her work, Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the kindnesses that make life worth living"--

A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth — Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe), — "On a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpecte...

The Nightblood Prince — Chang, Molly X., — Destined to become the empress who will reunite their warring kingdoms, seventeen-year-old Fei finds herself caught between two princes as she attempts to ta...

The Book of Delights — Gay, Ross, 1974- — "In The Book of Delights, one of today's most original literary voices offers up a genre-defying volume of lyric essays written over one tumultuous year. The ...

And Now She's Gone — Hall, Rachel Howzell, — "Isabel Lincoln is gone. But is she missing? It's up to Grayson Sykes to find her. Although she is reluctant to track down a woman who may not want to be f...

A Discovery of Witches — Harkness, Deborah, 1965- — Deep in the heart of Oxford's Bodleian Library, scholar Diana Bishop requests a manuscript called Ashmole 782 in the course of her research. Coming ...

Saltcrop — Kitasei, Yume, — "From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister - and Earth's environmental sa...

Kaikeyi — Patel, Vaishnavi, — ""I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions-much good it did me." So begins Kaikeyi's tale. The only daughter of the kingdom...

Brave the Wild River — Sevigny, Melissa L., 1986- — The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon.

Pineapple Street — Jackson, Jenny (Editor), — "Darley, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family, has never worried about money. The product of generational wealth and capitalist success, Darley reno...

The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac — Shields, Sharma — "A dark, fantastical, multi-generational tale about a family whose patriarch is consumed by the hunt for the mythical, elusive sasquatch he encounter...

The Mimicking of Known Successes — Older, Malka, 1977- — "'Every once in a while, a book comes along that is both a comfort read and a rousing, fist-pumping adventure, and The Mimicking of Known Succe...

Lady's Knight — Kaufman, Amie, — "Gwen is sick of hiding--hiding the fact that she's taken over her father's blacksmithing duties, hiding her attraction to girls, hiding her yearning for glory as a kn...

I Have Some Questions for You — Makkai, Rebecca, — "In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her p...

The Impossible Thing — Bauer, Belinda, 1962- — "From the exceptionally original mind of Booker Prize-longlisted author Belinda Bauer, a sweeping tale of obsession, greed, ambition, and a crime that ha...

Never Whistle at Night — "A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the q...