A young girl is weighed down by grief as her family sets out to celebrate Día de Muertos in The Invisible Parade, by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio.
Browsing: ages 5 & up
From transformative summer vacations and creating a home to discovering artists and celebrating individuality, the following picture books are great summer reading options,
The Friendship Train: A True Story of Helping and Healing after World War II, by Debbie Levy and Boris Kulikov, celebrates the kindness of strangers.
Explore all the different kinds of In-Between Places with author Alex Killian and illustrator Grady McFerrin.
A Native American learns the importance of growing out his hair in Brave, a picture book by author-illustrator Weshoyot Alvitre.
Learn about the first woman student at MIT—a pioneering environmental chemist — in The Girl Who Tested the Waters: Ellen Swallow, Environmental Scientist, by Patricia Daniele and Junyi Wu.
Learn the about the women who blazed a path forward for everyone The ABCs of Women’s History, by Rio Cortez and Lauren Semmer.
Learn the story of the first American woman to fly to space in I am Sally Ride, the 35th hero in the Ordinary People Change the World series by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos.
Black Artists Shaping the World, by Sharna Jackson and Marilyn Esther Chi, includes 14 stories of the lives and works of Black artists.
Learn about civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. in You Are a Star, Martin Luther King, Jr., by Dean Robbins and Anastasia Magloire Williams.