Fiction - People & Places

In this beautifully written picture book, Hana Hashimoto has signed up to play her violin at her school's talent show. The trouble is, she's only...

A 2018 Pura Belpré Author Honor BookThe First Rule of Punk is a wry and heartfelt exploration of friendship, finding your place, and learning to ...

A powerful novel in verse from Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning author Margarita Engle about the friendship between a young girl and the poet...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's LiteratureMember of the 2023 Notable Books for a Global Society (NGBS) ListFrom the bel...

Can music-obsessed Simi stand up to a gender-biased industry? Twelve-year-old Simi's life is set. First: graduate from the Bollywood Academy, scho...

An illustrated version of the classic Woody Guthrie folk song, perfect for a family singalongs! Since its debut in the 1940s, Woody Guthrie's "Th...

Have a JAM session, with this introduction to instruments-for kids 0 to 6Singing and dancing are great ways to learn about new things, and this son...

Once upon a magical time, a young rabbit named Weeskits hurried home to Kisoos--a town known as the Earth's belly button--to deliver some thrilling...

Todos los perros son especiales. Sin embargo, en el bosque cerca del Lago del Pantano Azul vive una bella, sinigual, perra mimosa que es Única-en-s...

When Louis was home in Queens, neighborhood kids would gather around as he brought them into jazz. His music still vibrantly lives around the world...

Read along as author, Katrina Hunt, tells the story of a young girl named Penelope who has some struggles embracing all of the things that make her...

A young girl and her grandfather set out one morning to find the perfect branch for Grampa to carve. Grampa says he's going to make a flute, but th...

Sofia FINALLY gets her beloved singing machine, and she can't wait to sing her heart out. However, nobody in her family wants to listen to her sing...

Katie loves music, and she'd like to make music of her own. She enjoys all of the instruments her dad and friends play, but none seem right for her...

New Voices Award Winner, Lee & Low Books Junior Library Guild Selection Best Books of the Year, Honorable Mention, The Huffington Post Choices,...

Packing themselves into an old jalopy--with Daddy, Uncle Vern, and Mama in the front seat and Cassie and her two brothers in the back--they joined ...

A young man, brave in battle and a leader in the buffalo hunt, is too shy to speak to the woman he loves. Sad and lonely, he wanders far into the w...

A young boy discovers the joys of making music in this rhythmic, irresistible picture book from Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Brian Pinkey. O...

Anjali is back for an encore in this follow-up to Always Anjali! And she isn't going to let anyone make her feel bad for being good at something, e...

7- year old Alice McLeod has a special ear, an ear for musical sounds in and around her home in Detroit. A thunderstorm keeps Alice awake one night...