![Ten Mice for Tet!](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0811834964.jpg?itok=S-WdrN5v)
This vibrant counting book introduces children to the rich traditions of the Vietnamese New Year. A playful village of mice lead young readers through the joyful celebration, as embroidered illustrations recreate ten scenes of preparation, gift giving, feasting, and firework displays.
Ten Mice for Tet!
![Sweet Dried Apples: A Vietnamese Wartime Childhood](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/039573570X.jpg?itok=yVBFekc8)
In wartime Vietnam, a young girl helps her grandfather who is an herbalist. She and her younger brother gather and dry herbs under his supervision and while he is away. One day, the elderly man returns, announcing that the war is coming to their village. Grandfather ministers to its victims and yet he dies himself. The siblings and their mother flee by boat and the girl vows to return to honor her beloved relative. [School Library Journal review]
Sweet Dried Apples: A Vietnamese Wartime Childhood
![Inside Out and Back Again](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0061962783_1.jpg?itok=p_px-UwN)
Inspired by the author’s childhood experience as a refugee — fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama — this coming-of-age novel told in verse offers a child’s-eye view of family and immigration.
Inside Out and Back Again
![Listen, Slowly](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0062229184.jpg?itok=j68uKkjp)
Twelve-year old Mai is reluctant to travel with her grandmother from California to Vietnam to learn more about her roots and to help Ba, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War. Mai struggles to understand the language and culture of her family’s heritage in this poignant, often funny novel of being part of two cultures.
Listen, Slowly
![Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0060731591.jpg?itok=yYgl6YyW)
In a gripping and powerful story-poem, the award-winning author takes readers into the heart and mind of a young soldier in an alien land who comes face-to-face with the enemy.
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
![Little Cricket](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/little-cricket.jpeg?itok=Xpdi52dP)
When North Vietnamese soldiers destroy the village of 12-year-old Kia, they almost destroy her family too, because her father disappears and the rest of them flee to a refugee camp. Eventually, Kia, her brother, and her grandfather immigrate to America, where she is overwhelmed by her new life, isolated by culture and language. [ALA Booklist review]
Little Cricket
![Vietnamese Children’s Favorite Stories](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0804844291.jpg?itok=U02Kg1N6)
These 15 stories reflect the traditions, myths, and history of Vietnam, with trees and flowers frequently serving symbolic purposes. Works such a The Story of Tam and Cam, an adaptation of Cinderella, will be familiar to readers, while a story about why the sea is salty will be new to many. [Publishers Weekly review]
Vietnamese Children’s Favorite Stories
![The Lotus Seed](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/the-lotus-seed.jpeg?itok=ldAJ3w2F)
When she is forced to leave Vietnam, a young girl brings a lotus seed with her to America in remembrance of her homeland.
The Lotus Seed
![Grandfather's Dream](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0688123392.jpg?itok=fWyA2kd7)
The Vietnam war is over, and Grandfather and young Nam dream that the new dikes will restore the wetlands, bringing home the beautiful cranes that once filled the winter sky. But other villagers think that growing rice is a more practical use for the land.
Grandfather’s Dream
![Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/141690638X.jpg?itok=4hPgbsCz)
This realistic story of America’s war in Vietnam uses the alternating viewpoints of an army dog named Cracker and her 17-year-old handler, Rick Hanski. From their training at a base in the U.S. to their stalking the enemy, the tale explores the close bond of the scout-dog team, relating how it detects booby traps and mines, finds the enemy, rescues POWs, and returns home to a heroes’ welcome. [ALA Booklist review]
Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam
![Shooting the Moon](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1416979867.jpg?itok=gVl6SsxB)
Twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter and her brother, TJ, have grown up with the Army: their dad is a colonel. TJ has enlisted and is heading off to war in Vietnam. But then TJ, a photographer, begins to send her rolls of film to develop that gradually reveal the horrors of what he’s seen. The novel invites young people to reflect on the many shades of gray that Jamie confronts. [ALA Booklist review]
Shooting the Moon
![Platypus Police Squad: Never Say Narwhal](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/006207170X.jpg?itok=HEebLS2x)
From Jarrett J. Krosoczka comes Never Say Narwhal, the final installment in the hilarious, high-action illustrated middle grade series featuring two platypus detectives, perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Big Nate, and Jarrett’s own Lunch Lady series. Frank Pandini Jr. is the mayor of Kalamazoo City, and everyone is celebrating—everyone except for Zengo, O’Malley, and Cooper, who can’t seem to close a single case. To make matters worse, a mysterious hulking shadow has appeared in waters around KC. Could this spell the end for the Platypus Police Squad?
Platypus Police Squad: Never Say Narwhal
![Peanut Butter and Jellyfish](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0375870369.jpg?itok=235KYADW)
Peanut Butter and Jellyfish are best of friends and swim up, down, around, and through their ocean home. Crabby is their neighbor. He is not their best friend. But when Crabby gets in trouble, will Peanut Butter and Jellyfish come to the rescue? You bet they will!
Peanut Butter and Jellyfish
![A Manual for Marco: Living, Learning, and Laughing With an Autistic Sibling](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1615992472.jpg?itok=yxQVSepN)
An 8-year-old girl decides to make a list of all the things she likes and dislikes about dealing with her autistic brother, and in doing so realizes that she has created A Manual for Marco.
A Manual for Marco: Living, Learning, and Laughing With an Autistic Sibling
![Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0142411507.jpg?itok=v4_DueLK)
Intellectually gifted but socially aloof from her seventh-grade peers, Emma-Jean is nonetheless happy with her life. She has positive relationships with several adults, a number of interests to pursue, and the memory of her late father to inspire her. Her life changes after a chance encounter with a classmate leads her to become a problem-solver without realizing the ripple effect that her actions will have. Readers will be intrigued by Emma-Jean’s insightful observations and her adult-level vocabulary.
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
![Remember Dippy](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1935955586.jpg?itok=BUuLDJeL)
During a summer vacation at his aunt’s house, Johnny is made responsible for taking care of his older cousin Remember, who has autism. Remember is a gawky awkward kid with some pretty strange habits, like repeating back almost everything Johnny says and spending hours glued to the weather channel. Johnny’s premonitions of disaster appear at first to come to fruition, but when the two boys save a bully from drowning, salvage the pizzeria guy’s romance, and share girl troubles, Johnny ends up having the summer of his life.
Remember Dippy
![""](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/2023-11/curious-incident.jpg?itok=g0kSCFCR)
Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, a teenager with Asperger’s, is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child’s quirks. In this story, Christopher sets out to solve the mysterious death of a neighborhood dog.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
![Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1416938958.jpg?itok=5fMEFz3F)
Ben’s decision to join the military affects his entire family members, including his brother, who has autism and who announces that he, too, wishes to enlist.
Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am
![Word Play](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1943145172.jpg?itok=sMBLWRJQ)
The teacher asks her students what a compound word is. They know that it is two little words put together to make a new word. Now their homework is to come up with more. Where the children find compound words, throughout the day and all around, is presented in cartoon art in panels to illuminate meaning.
Word Play
![This Book Will Not Be Fun](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0399550615.jpg?itok=EhO95lZF)
What’s in a book? For one bespectacled mouse, this book is dull, dull, dull. That is, until the mouse meets a “Word-Eating, Flying Whale” that brings a “Glow-in-the-Dark Kung Fu Worm” into the picture. Dry wit and outrageous scenes remind readers of the pleasure in a tall tale told (or read!).
This Book Will Not Be Fun
![Second Grade Holdout](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/0544876814.jpg?itok=SCAv09FH)
The narrator and his friend Tyler will soon start 2nd grade. Will his new teacher and the more advanced grade be as bad as the boys’ older sister warn? Happily, the younger siblings catch on to the teasing when they acknowledge that they are no longer as gullible as first graders! The funny narration is accompanied by jaunty, expressive ink and wash illustrations.
Second Grade Holdout
![A New School Year: Stories in Six Voices](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1580897304.jpg?itok=CDcMmhXN)
Six children, one in each grade from kindergarten to 5th, share their thoughts and anxieties as the new school year starts. Short, sensitive poems combine with lightly colored illustrations to introduce each individual. The voices and concerns of the children from diverse backgrounds are both relatable and plausible.
A New School Year: Stories in Six Voices
![Little Plane Learns to Write](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/1626724369.jpg?itok=ZsX78uft)
In school, Little Plane practices his writing but he finds the loopity loops really tough. He doesn’t give up though and continues to try — until at last, he completes his words! Children will see themselves in the tenacious, child-like airplane with expressive eyes. Brightly colored, digitally created illustrations add to the simple text.
Little Plane Learns to Write
![How to Get Your Teacher Ready](/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover_mobile_1x/public/book/055353825X.jpg?itok=YFpOJCuX)
Getting your teacher ready for school means starting out with a big smile, then being able to show her how to find iguana books during library time and reminding her where the bathroom is if she doesn’t know. The gentle humor in this turnaround tale is sure to remind children of typical school routines and that everyone may have worries.