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When Max misplaces his digital watch, he replaces it with an analog watch that he does not know how to read and finds himself late for everything. Full-color illustrations.

Pablo is excited about helping his grandmother sell vegetables at the farmer's market. But no one comes to buy. Pablo's solution is clever--and delicious! Full color.

Discover Math Matters! With over 15 million books sold worldwide, this award-winning series of easy-to-read books will help young readers ages 5-8 approach math with enthusiasm. Great for fans of MathStart or Step into Reading Math.Pups love the Bark Park, the best dog park around. Only one thing would make it better for everyone—a bench! But a bench isn’t in the park budget. How can Lila and her friends raise the money? With a dog wash! They reach 25% of the goal, then 50%, until . . . a sudden shower threatens to make the dog wash a 100% washout! With engaging stories that connect math to kids’ everyday lives, each book in the Teachers’ Choice Award-winning Math Matters series focuses on a single concept and reinforces math vocabulary and skills. Bonus activities in the back of each book feature math and reading comprehension questions, and even more free activities online add to the fun! (Math topic: Percentages)

Hoping to win lunch with famous entomologist Arizona Brown, Albert looks for all twelve bugs at the insect zoo and counts down each time he finds one.

Keturah, renowned for her storytelling, follows a legendary hart deep into the forest, where she becomes hopelessly lost. Her strength diminishes until, finally, she realizes that death is near—and learns then that death is a young lord, melancholy and stern. She is able to charm Lord Death with a story and gain a reprieve, but he grants her only a day, and within that day she must find true love. A mesmerizing love story, interweaving elements of classic fantasy and high romance.

In this classic friendship story written by award-winning author Suzanne Bloom, readers will see that Zack and Ike are alike in some ways, but different in others--and that's okay! Because you don't have to be exactly alike to be friends.

In this math themed story, Albert the mouse and his friend Leo agree to split everything they get at the arcade restaurant, Melty's, equally--which works perfectly until their "prize" turns out to be seven balls.

"In this math-themed Mouse Math title, Albert is given the uniform number zero on his soccer team and is sure it is cursed when he can't score any goals"--

“A tactile approach to exploring new worlds...A nice step-up once [babies] have grasped simple concepts and animals names.” - Wall Street JournalWhen it comes to fun surprises and visual puzzles, once is never enough! You never know what you’ll find when you turn the die-cut pages for a second look at the animals in this ingenious board book.A field of flowers hides a playful lion cub, buzzy bees turn out to be chasing a curious pig, two mice sneaking some cheese must creep around a sleeping cat. And what is that mysterious creature at the end? A child in disguise! The animals in this clever board book will have children looking twice—and more!—as they turn each die-cut page to see the scene transform. Here is a great way to have fun while practicing paying attention and looking closely.

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 - BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing*Recommended by The New York Times*"An incandescent bildungsroman." -Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review"Haunting, sublime, solemn, and true." -Robert Jones Jr., author of The Prophets"[An] intense, astute meditation on race, family, class, love, and friendship." -Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church LadiesIn this contemporary debut novel-an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity -Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband's infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends.Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andrés falls into old habits with friends he thought he'd left behind. Before long, he unexpectedly becomes entangled with his first love and is forced to tend to past wounds.Captivating and poignant; a modern coming-of-age story about the essential nature of community, The Town of Babylon is a page-turning novel about young love and a close examination of our social systems and the toll they take when they fail us.

From New Yorker cover artist Bob Staake, this inspirational guide to finding your authentic self through life's challenges is a hip new take on the graduation book.Award-winning author and New Yorker cover artist Bob Staake's lyrical words and stunning illustrations will lead children and adults alike to discover the encouraging truth that our path through life is not only challenging and beautiful-it is all our own to discover and invent. With a bonus The Path poster from Bob Staake inside the jacket! "You will walk. You will walk along a well-worn path that many people have taken-and long before you." So begins this inspirational journey over gentle, grassy hills, through fields of wildflowers, over raging rivers, up steep mountains, and even through a dark, chilly cave. When it splits in two, you will have to decide what to do next-and you'll create a path that's unique to you.

Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore and beyond around a unified aesthetic that highlights the luxurious pleasures of reading. Each issue contains prose, poetry, art and comics, artfully produced on silky smooth paper with luxurious French flaps. The Ecstasy Issue contains work by Mieko Kawakami, Fernanda Melchor, Catherine Lacey, Leslie Jamison, Solmaz Sharif, Terrance Hayes, Don Mee Choi, Ada Limón, Chinelo Okparanta, Sayaka Murata, Katharina Volckmer, Kate Zambreno, and many more.

Thematically organized, Yu's essays and poems are in conversation with each other around subjects that include love, nostalgia, mortality, the natural world and writing itself.

How do you knit a pair of mittens? The first step is to get a sheep of course! A tale of patience, creativity and friendship.

A courageous girl follows her dream of learning to fly in this story inspired by human rights activist Loujain AlHathloul.