Little Audrey

Author	Beth Ann Fennelly
ISBN	0393356485

The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these...

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	0553212281

Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William...

Author	Patricia MacLachlan
ISBN	0618062416

This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.

Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes...

Author	Langston Hughes
ISBN	1416935401

Langston Hughes' powerful and simple poem is brilliantly accompanied by Charles R. Smith's transcendent photographs. Each photograph illustrates the beauty, depth and soul of being an African-American today. From close ups of lined hands to the joy of a baby's giggle, the photographs span ages....

Author	Edward Gorey
ISBN	0151011079

This latest collection displays in glorious abundance the offbeat characters and droll humor of Edward Gorey. Figbash is acrobatic, topiaries are tragic, hippopotami are admonitory, and galoshes are remorseful in this celebra- tion of a unique talent that never fails to delight, amuse, and confound....

Author	Josephine Poole
ISBN	0375832424

The life of Anne Frank, from birth until being taken from the hidden attic by the Nazis, is presented in this haunting, meticulously researched picture book. It is a compelling yet easy-to-understand "first" introduction to the Holocaust as witnessed by Anne and her family. The stunningly evocative...

Author	Rick Geary
ISBN	1681120526

Winner:
2017 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens, Non-fiction

Nominee:
71st Annual NCS Reuben Awards, Graphic Novels

On January 15, 1947, a woman was walking with her daughter in a Los Angeles neighborhood. She passed what looked to be a discarded manikin. It turned out...

Author

Susan Middleton Elya

Little Roja Riding Hood written by Susan Elya and illustrated by Susan Guevara won the Pura Belpe Award in 2015. I located this text at my local library among the fairy tale section.

This version of little red riding hood has a modern added twist on the classic fairy tale. This rhythmic text is...