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What to Expect from This Series: Dorothea Lange’s experience with childhood • Playful, interactive elements on every page keep little hands busy illness left her sympathetic to those less • Bright and colorful artwork features an adorable cat and dog fortunate and gave her a unique perspective • Simple text and concepts are ideal for this age-group on the Great Depression and its effects on board the American people. Hired by the Farm books Security Administration as a field investigator, she set out to document displaced farmers and migrant workers in the 1930s. On the road, she would find her most famous subject and create an icon. With illustrations by Sarah Green and lyrical prose by award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford, Dorothea Lange brings the story to young readers.

What to Expect: Praise for Dorothea Lange • Spotlight on an influential American � “Weatherford never talks down to her documentary photographer and journalist audience…using figurative language and rich • Introduction to the Great Depression from vocabulary to tell her story…Green’s debut the humanizing point of view of the people as a picture-book illustrator is brilliant…A who experienced it fine introduction to an important American • Includes an author’s note with samples artist.”—Kirkus Reviews starred review of the artist’s work COVER NOT FINAL NOT COVER FINAL NOT COVER ALSO BY THE AUTHOR A Day with Pepe & Millie Play Hide-and-Seek CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD is the with Pepe & Millie author of several acclaimed poetry collections and 978-0-8075-6481-3 6.625 x 6.25, 16 pages poetic biographies, including Gordon Parks: How the $9.99 Board Book with Photographer Captured Black and White America, Ages 0–3/Infant Flaps and Sliders 978-0-8075-6482-0 6.625 x 6.25, 16 pages August 2017 Territory: World English $9.99 Board Book with Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood, and Ages 0–3/Infant Flaps and Sliders Freedom in Congo Square, winner of the 2017 August 2017 Territory: World English Spend the day with Pepe the dog and Millie the Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honors. She lives cat from sunup to sundown. They play outside, Pepe and Millie are playing hide-and-seek! in North Carolina. do chores, and make dinner. Most of all, they When their friend Emma the bird joins in the have fun together! fun, Pepe and Millie can’t find her. Where SARAH GREEN is a California born-and-based illustrator. This is her first solo picture book. She Gordon Parks Sugar Hill could she be hiding? YAYO KAWAMURA is an author-illustrator who lives studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of 978-0-8075-3017-7 978-0-8075-7650-2 in Berlin. Design and graduated in 2014. $16.99 $16.99

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MAJA KASTELIC studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Before starting Grandmama’s Pride Lucky Beans Praise for The Cow Who Climbed a Tree The Cow Who Climbed a Tree her career in illustration, she worked as a retouching 978-0-8075-3022-1 978-0-8075-4782-3 � School Library Journal starred review 978-0-8075-1298-2 artist restoring frescoes. She lives in Slovenia. $6.99 $16.99 � Booklist starred review $16.99

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Benedict was a creature of habit... Until one morning something terribly un-same happened.

Benedict, a honey-loving bear, has a pretty sweet life. Every morning his bees leave three jars of honey on his doorstep. Then, one day, the bees go on strike! What will it take for received his BFA in studio GERALD KELLEY Benedict to please the bees and get them to drawing and has worked as a graphic designer and editorial illustrator before focusing solely on make honey again? children's publishing. His work combines traditional What to Expect: and digital tools. Gerald lives in Colorado. • Celebrates the importance of cooperating with a team, understanding and appreciating others, and doing your part • Beautiful and expressive art gives this story a timeless feel • Humorous, kid-friendly take on the timely subject of labor disputes

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PAUL PAOLILLI and DAN BREWER are the uncle-nephew author team of Silver Seeds: A Book of Nature. Paul is a school psychologist and Dan is a high school English teacher. Both live in the Los Angeles area.

ALICE BRERETON attended the Academy of Art Goodnight Bob I Will Fight University. This is her first picture book. 978-0-8075-3003-0 Monsters for You $16.99 978-0-8075-9056-0 Common Core themes available on our website $16.99

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978-0-8075-1212-8 8 x 8, 32 pages $12.99 Full-Color Jacketed Ages 4–8/Grades PreK–3 Hardcover with Spot UV written and illustrated by JANE SMITH August 2017 Territory: World She’s a sweet young elephant who loves celebrating the holidays and trying Every Thanksgiving Grammy Ella makes a new things! Along with her friends Mary Margaret the crocodile and George delicious pumpkin pie, and this year Chloe Zoe gets to help! When Chloe Zoe has a the giraffe, Chloe Zoe learns important lessons about getting along with friends, mix-up with the spices, the pie turns out enjoying new experiences, and most of all, having fun! to be a disaster. Will Chloe Zoe learn that Thanksgiving is about more than just the food? What to Expect from This Series: • Chloe Zoe and her friends take on all the major holidays and “firsts” • A lovable group of animal friends helps young kids understand the world around them • A perfect picture book series for holiday displays and promotional tables picture book It’s Halloween, Chloe Zoe!

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Six months ago, tech giant Aether Elena Martinez has less than Corporation sent Elena Martinez and a group of skilled teens thirty years into the future twenty-four hours to figure out on a secret mission. Now the surviving time how to change her destiny… travelers—including Elena and her boyfriend, Adam—are trying to get on with their lives Elena Martinez has hidden her eidetic memory back in the present. all her life—or so she thinks. When powerful But Aether Corporation isn’t done with Elena tech giant Aether Corporation selects her for or her friends, and they’ve been drafted into a top-secret project, she can’t say no. All she PRAISE FOR THE SERIES another trip thirty years ahead to find other has to do is participate in a trip to the future to “An entertaining science fiction mystery that time travelers who have gone missing. They bring back data, and she’ll be set for life. should appeal to James Patterson fans along discover a future that’s far more advanced with readers of Michael Grant’s Gone series.” than the one they visited six months ago, Joined by a team of four other teens with —School Library Journal on Future Shock special skills, including Adam, a science since the technology that Aether retrieved prodigy, Elena travels thirty years into the “A fast-paced read with shocking, sit- and reverse-engineered has resulted in great future. But when something goes wrong, they straight-up-in-your-chair moments…Future leaps forward in invention. The new mission break the only rule they were given: do not Shock is suspenseful, engaging, and highly has deadly consequences, though, and Elena look into their own fates. recommended.”—USA Today on Future Shock must return to the future to try to alter the course of events. But the future is different ELIZABETH BRIGGS graduated from UCLA with With only twenty-four hours to get back to the “Contemporary readers will be teleported yet again. Now every trip through time a degree in sociology. She mentors teens in writing present and find a way to stop the inevitable with delight into this Back to the Future– reveals new complications and more lives and is the author of the new adult series Chasing the future, Elena must use her eidetic memory, esque spy thriller. Move this one to the lost—or never born. Elena and Adam will risk Dream. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband street smarts, and a growing trust in Adam to ‘buy’ pile.”—School Library Journal on everything—including their relationship—to and a pack of fluffy dogs. save her new friends and herself. Future Threat save their friends.

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It takes a very strange prom night (with the family hearse instead of a limo) for Gabe to truly fall for Hartman. But when she leaves the after-prom party with him, she’s not there for Bree—or for the deadly accident that happens that night. Bree survives, but will she and Gabe ever be able to rebuild their friendship? Joy Nielsons: Sensitive, brave, strong What to Expect: “Perry’s descriptions of Joy’s intense turmoil are vivid… • Explores issues of growing up and a moving survival story.”—Booklist maintaining friendships • Funeral home setting makes for a quirky Stronger Than You Know backdrop and a unique look at death HC 978-0-8075-3155-6 • $16.99 • A realistic and emotional portrayal of PB 978-0-8075-3158-7 • $9.99 ALL THE FOREVER THINGS relationships, grief, and love by JOLENE PERRY

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