Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from a sharp-minded girl named Prudence, a charming child called the Infant Prodigy, and a filthy (yet extremely cheerful) chimney sweep. Can Solly's new friends help him to reclaim his spoon -- and his true identity?

"Change is in the air, from snow in the jungle to a trip to the concrete jungle. After a freak blizzard strikes the village, Weda is struck by the urge to return to her home in the city. There may not be wild animals in a metropolis, but the city is no less dangerous, as a trigger happy bodyguard and a couple of video game obsessed bank robbers prove. And a new environment gives Guu plenty of excuses to engage in even more maniacal mischief! -- Container....

"Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being considers aliveness through the aesthetic doings of poems and essays, through the "imagine a black world" imperative that radiates as the operating ethos of the made-text. In such imagining, the matter of black humanity does not have to be argued for; in this state of aesthetic existence, being and becoming can unfurl. One is alive, one is alive, and this aliveness alights an encounter with the unanswerable...

Bonnie Lee finds her life changing when she starts attending the arts high school and finds she has to take risks and work hard to succeed.

When Southern California high school senior Sofi Mendoza lies to her parents and crosses the border for a weekend party, she has no idea that she will get stuck in a Mexican village with family she has never met before, unable to return to the United States and the easy life she knew.

With much energy and imagination, this ode to self-esteem encourages kids to appreciate everything about themselves inside and out. Messy hair? Beaver breath? So what! Here's a little girl who knows what really matters.

The last thing Danny expects to come across during his hike in the forest is a very insecure bear! An Insecure Bear?! How is that? Everyone knows bears are big, and strong, and fearless! And yet, Compare Bear is precisely that--a scardey-bear who can't seem to see his own strength, and just doesn't know how wonderful he truly is! Compare Bear compares himself to every other animal in the forest and wants to be anything except his own true, excellent...

Back on Earth, Lailah is still caught between her alternate immortal identities, part angel descendant, and part vampire, and on the run with the rogue angel descendant Gabriel and vampire Ruadhan from both the Arch Angels and the Pureblood Vampires--but the greatest danger may lie with her mixed up emotions and her attraction to the vampire Jonah.

"While many saw a confident, six-foot-five Black man, A. D. "Lumkile" Thomason lived most of his life deeply wounded by encounters with violence, abandonment, and family tragedy. Tracing how the art of Jay-Z gave voice to his own longings and how the gospel of Jesus brought him healing, A. D.'s powerful story gives you permission to be Black, to be Christian, and to be the person God has made you to be"--