"Ryan Hart and her family are back in another installment of stories about a Black girl finding her way and her voice as she grows through change and challenges. In this book, Ryan finds herself waiting on lots of things -- like for her new sister to be born healthy, for her new recipes to turn out right, for that summer camp trip to go better than she fears! And of course Ryan is facing these new challenges and new experiences in her classic style...

Based on a real-life event and written in verse, this novel relates the disturbing story of one girl's descent into addiction.

"Seventeen-year-old Mira Fuller-Jensen was adopted by her moms at birth. All she knows about her biological mother is that she was a high-school student from India who went back to India after giving birth. Although Mira loves her moms, she's always felt like a misfit in her mostly white community. That starts to change when Nikhil Verma transfers to her school from Mumbai. They become fast friends and he helps Mira connect to her heritage through...

"In this illustrated picture book, everybody is guessing what's in Mama Lou's belly. The bird thinks it could be a cat, the cat thinks it might be a mouse and the sister thinks it could be a doll. But only the baby knows who they truly are!"--

A young boy wonders if Mummy's growing tummy is hiding a watermelon, various animals, or maybe toys.

"Jake loses his cool when he learns he's about to become the middle child, and he's back to his fakester ways when new girl Bailey starts school and he'd do anything to impress her" --

A wordless picture book about a young boy who wonders why his mother's belly is growing larger.

With her tough facade and hard attitude, Sheree doesn't make friends easily and lives a lonely life, but when she gets pregnant and decides to keep the baby with the intention of finding unconditional love, Sheree learns important lessons about herself that change her entire outlook on life.

Bryan Park is a good guy. He's smart, driven, and has a picture-perfect future ahead of him when he graduates. That is, until Bryan's longtime friend and now-girlfriend, Alyssa, tells him she's pregnant with his child. Bryan and Alyssa have countless decisions to make that will change their lives forever. When Alyssa decides to continue the pregnancy, Bryan stays by her side. Still facing the pressures of high school, Bryan now has to think of diapers,...

Eleven-year-old Emma's life in Tokyo changes for the worse when she and her American mother, who is pregnant, must move in with her Japanese grandmother the summer before 9/11 changes the world.