2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Chapter Book

Spy School

Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.

Small Spaces

When eleven-year-old Ollie finds a disheveled, weeping woman by the river threatening to throw a book into the water, she doesn't think, she just acts -- grabbing the book and bolting!  As Ollie begins to read, she finds herself entranced by the creepy tale, entitled Small Spaces.  She's still reading the next day on her school field trip to a local farm when she discovers that the mysterious woman runs the farm and that the graves of the people who she's been reading about are located there, too.  When the school bus breaks down on the return trip, the day takes a turn from strang