#1 New York Times Bestseller | IndieNext List
Book Club Favorite | Frequent Community Reads Selection
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
Published February 2018 | 448 pp

Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.

Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
Book Club Favorite | Published February 2018 | 400 pp

After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution...

IndieNext Pick | Optioned for Film
Frequent Community Reads Selection
Published September 2011 | 368 pp

In pre-World War II Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered when they are separated by the Nazi invasion. Then, decades later, thousands of miles away in New York, an unexpected encounter leads to an inescapable glance of recognition, and the realization that providence has given Lenka and Josef one more chance...

Frequent Community Reads Selection | Book Club Favorite
Published April 2018 | 384 pp

In 1968, a disillusioned and heartbroken Lillian Carlson left Atlanta after the assassination of Martin Luther King. She found meaning in the hearts of orphaned African children and cobbled together her own small orphanage in the Rift Valley alongside the lush forests of Rwanda. Set against the backdrop of a country grieving and trying to heal after a devastating civil war, follow the intertwining stories of three women who discover something unexpected: grace when there can be no forgiveness.

International Bestseller | Bellweather Prize for Fiction
Now an Academy Award Nominated Major Motion Picture
Frequent Community Reads Selection | Book Club Favorite
Published March 2008 | 368 pp

In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land.

New York Times Bestseller | IndieNext List
Frequent School Reads Selection
Published July 2009 | 96 pp

Hector, Terrence, and Dee have always wondered about their school lunch lady. What does she do when she isn’t dishing out the daily special? Where does she live? Does she have a lot of cats at home? Little do they know, Lunch Lady doesn’t just serve sloppy joes—she serves justice! Whatever danger lies ahead, it’s no match for LUNCH LADY!

Frequent School Reads Selection | National Bestseller
Published July 2016 | 176 pp

Victor Starspeeder is psyched to be starting school at the Jedi Academy. His sister, Christina does not share an enthusiasm for Victor's newfound educational path. She's horrified that her annoying baby brother will be there to cramp her style.
While Victor means well, his excess energy leads him to spend a lot of time in detention with the little, green sage, Yoda. Yoda wants to channel Victor's talents, so he makes the young Padawan join the drama club.

Frequent School Reads Selection | National Bestseller
Published May 2013 | 240 pp

Fans of Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka, and Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s own Lunch Lady graphic novels will flip for Jarrett’s series of funny illustrated Platypus Police Squad middle grade novels!

By Bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale Series
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Kirkus and Publishers Weekly
Named a Best Book for Chicago Public Libaries
Published September 2018 | 224 pp

After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think--she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price.

2017 PEN Center Literary Award in Young Adult Lit
Asian Pacific American Library Association Award
Library Association Award for Young Adult Lit
Published May 2016 | 400 pp

In this new novel set against a unique historical backdrop, Mercy Wong, a strong-willed and spirited Chinese-American girl leads a cast of diverse characters in this extraordinary tale of survival.

Winner of the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award | Amelia Bloom Book
American Library Association Best Fiction for Young Adults
Published March 2015 | 384 pp

All Samantha wanted was to move back to New York and pursue her music, which was difficult enough being a Chinese girl in Missouri, 1849. Then her fate takes a turn for the worse after a tragic accident leaves her with nothing and she breaks the law in self-defense. With help from Annamae, a runaway slave she met at the scene of her crime, the two flee town for the unknown frontier. 

Frequent Community Reads Selection | Book Club Favorite
Published February 2017 | 320 pp

Impeccably researched and a "must-read for fans of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Paula McLain's Circling the Sun" (Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author), Stolen Beauty intertwines the tales of two remarkable women across more than a hundred years. It juxtaposes passion and discovery against hatred and despair, and shines a light on our ability to love, to destroy, and above all, to endure.

IndieNext List | Books Club Favorite
Frequent Community Reads Selection
Published May 2017 | 368 pp

Full of great big heart and unexpected humor, Ludwig's debut introduces the lovable, wholly original Ginny Moon who discovers a new meaning of family on her unconventional journey home.

Frequent Community Reads Selection | Book Club Favorite
Published December 2014, 288 pp

When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations. In 1943, the War Department and the publishing industry stepped in with an extraordinary program: 120 million small, lightweight paperbacks, for troops to carry in their pockets and their rucksacks, in every theater of war.

Stop That Yawn (October 2018)
May I Have a Word? (May 2017)
Ida, Always (February 2016)
Stuck With The Blooz (October 2012)

Caron is the winner of the CLC Book Award, Christopher Award, Sakura Medal, Goodreads Choice Award Finalist, Cybils Award Finalist, and a Florida Reading Association Children’s Book Award Nominee.

Niblet & Ralph (June 2018)
The Not So Quiet Library (July 2016)
Wolfie the Bunny (Feb 2015)
No Fits, Nelson! (June 2013)

Zachariah is the winner of the 2011 Society of Illustrator’s Founders Award, and has been named The Huffington Post Best Children’s Book of 2013, a Kirkus Best Picture Book, The Boston Globe Best Picture Book of 2015, and won the PALA Carolyn W. Field Awards.

Stonewall Book Award Winner | YALSA Award for Excellence
Frequent Community & School Read Selection
Published October 2017 | 320 pp

If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight.

National Book Award Longlist
Published February 2018 | 272 pp

After losing her family and everything she knew in the Nazi concentration camps, Gerta is finally liberated, only to find herself completely alone. Without her papa, her music, or even her true identity, she must move past the task of surviving and on to living her life. In the displaced persons camp where she is staying, Gerta meets Lev, a fellow teen survivor who she just might be falling for, despite her feelings for someone else. With a newfound Jewish identity she never knew she had, and a return to the life of music she thought she lost forever, Gerta must choose how to build a new future.

Frequent Community Reads Selection | Book Club Favorite
Published January 2015 | 288 pp

Alice and her husband, Jake, own a barbecue restaurant in Austin, Texas. Hardworking and popular in their community, they have a loving marriage and thriving business, but Alice still feels that something is missing, lying just beyond reach.
Carla is a strong-willed young girl who's had to grow up fast, acting as caretaker to her six-year-old brother Junior. Years ago, her mother left the family behind in Honduras to make the arduous, illegal journey to Texas. But when Carla's grandmother dies and violence in the city escalates, Carla takes fate into her own hands and with Junior, she joins the thousands of children making their way across Mexico to America, facing great peril for the chance at a better life.

Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence
Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature
Frequent Community & Campus Reads Selection
Published February 2016 | 216 pp

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness.

2016 ALA Notable Children’s Book | ILA Teacher’s Choice
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year
Frequent Community & School Reads Selection
Book Club Favorite | Published Sept 2015| 288 pp

The story of how a random act of violence brings together an angry, thirteen year old boy and a reclusive “Junk Man” in his neighborhood. When the teenager is sentenced to work for the trash picker he injured, he begins to unravel the Junk Man’s surprising secrets. Readers will be uplifted by this powerful tale of friendship, loss, art, and redemption. Can art transform lives? Find out.

Latinidad Best Debut Book | International Latino Book Award Winner
Frequent Campus Reads Selection
Published April 2016 | 400 pp

From the acclaimed author of Chasing the Sun comes a new novel about immigration and the depths to which one Mexican American family will go for forgiveness and redemption.

New York Times Bestseller
Frequent Academy & Campus Reads Selection
Published October 2016 | 304 pp

Cartoonist Sarah Glidden accompanies her two friends—reporters and founders of a journalism non-profit—as they research potential stories on the effects of the Iraq War on the Middle East and, specifically, the war’s refugees. Joining the trio is a childhood friend and former Marine whose past service in Iraq adds an unexpected and sometimes unwelcome viewpoint, both to the people they come across and perhaps even themselves.

2018 National Outdoor Book Award
Frequent Campus Reads Selection | IndieNext Pick
Published June 2018 | 320 pp

Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times), "a revelation" (Pacific Standard), and "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.

Zachary's Ball, Candlewick, 2000
Oliver's Game, Candlewick, 2004
Mudball, Candlewick, 2005
Henry Aaron's Dream, Candlewick, 2010
There Goes Ted Williams, Candlewick, 2012
Becoming Babe Ruth, Candlewick, 2013
Growing Up Pedro, Candlewick, 2015
Crossing Niagara, Candlewick, 2016
Red & Lulu, Candlewick, 2017

Matt is the winner of three Parents’ Choice Gold Awards, an Orbis Pictus Honor, and two ALA Notable Books. His artwork has been exhibited at the Museum of American Illustration, the Brandywine River Museum, and the Mazza Museum of Picture Book Art.