2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Kids

Unbound : a novel in verse

 

The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.

Circus Mirandus

Learning from his dying grandfather that a magical circus at the heart of his favorite bedtime stories is real, young Micah and his friend Jenny embark on a journey to claim a miracle from the circus's wondrous magician, the Lightbender.

The Frog Princess

After reluctantly kissing a frog, an awkward, fourteen-year-old princess suddenly finds herself a frog, too, and sets off with the prince to seek the means--and the self-confidence--to become human again.

Arlo Finch

A magical fantasy series for middle grade readers, the Arlo Finch books tells the story of a boy who moves with his family to Pine Mountain, Colorado. As if moving to a new town wasn't hard enough, he soon discovers ancient dark forces lurking right in his own backyard.