Beletrie Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Scott O'Dell

Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also…

Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin

Kai-Fu Lee

Lisa Feldman Barrett

From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Ursula K. Le Guin

An exciting re-launch of the classic Earthsea Cycle, by fantasy literature legend Le Guin, winner of a Newbery Honor, the National Book Award, Pushcart Prize, and six Nebula Awards. Reissue.

Alison Bechdel

From the bestselling author of "Fun Home," "Time" magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Bechdel becoming the artist her gifted mother always wanted to be.

David Wiesner

A nearly wordless book, which unfolds the events of one Tuesday night with the clarity of a silent movie. It won the 1992 Caldecott Medal and was named as an ALA Notable Children's Book. Ages: 4+.

Andrew Rea