There are some brilliantbooks for 8- and 9-year-oldsaround but it can be hard to find them among all the not-so-great books out there. On this page you'll find the tried-and-true books that are pretty much guaranteed to appeal to the eight- or nine-year-old boy or girl in your...
A New Year’s Reunion, text by YU Liqiong (Candlewick Press, 2011) ISBN 978-0763658816 // 团圆 The 2025 nominations from Taiwan: Chang Yeou-Yu (author), Chen Chih-Yuan (illustrator) and Hsu-kung Liu (illustrator). A few titles in English are presented for each nominee. CHANG Yeou-Yu...
Why We Like It:It delivers science-based answers to kids’ typical questions about sex in a straightforward, fearless style. But Take Note:Use your judgment on age appropriateness for your individual child, as some have found the concepts too advanced for their 7- or 8-year-old kids. ...
The story begins with 25 year old Sarah, who is a single mother of twins, whose life has been a constant struggle with loneliness and insecurity, primarily due to her emotionally distant adoptive parents, finds herself running into her estranged husband Rafael at a party. Thus, a man whose ...
The book talks about a teenage girl, Maria, who is ready to risk everything to save her brother, who has been missing. The book is set in Poland, and the year is 1944 when Maria is trying to get home. She is done with her years of doing forced labor in Nazi Germany. Once she ...
A New Year’s Reunion, text by YU Liqiong (Candlewick Press, 2011) ISBN 978-0763658816 // 团圆 The 2025 nominations from Taiwan: Chang Yeou-Yu (author), Chen Chih-Yuan (illustrator) and Hsu-kung Liu (illustrator). A few titles in English are presented for each nominee. ...
shallow sex knowledge to their children, teaching them not to let strangers touch them and not to accept things from strangers, but these tips are far from enough.Zhang Xin, a mother of a 4-year-old girl, who bought Learning to Love Yourself upon its release, said she felt delighted ...
This 11-year-old girl is collecting 1,000 books with black female leadsAlana Yzola
When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world ...
It is narrated by Maya, a confident and reasonable ten-year-old girl who likes summer, watermelons, and W.I.T.C.H. dolls, all appearing in the first doublespread. Maya is not a passive narrator; she is inquisitive, and asks readers numerous questions, such as “what do you like?”,...