Books like Hazel's Amazing Mother
By Rosemary Wells
For the kid who has ever felt small next to bigger, meaner kids, this one lands a promise every parent wants to make: someone bigger is watching out for you. Tense, protective, and quietly triumphant.
A gentle pony too plain for the beautiful horses inside the walled city ends up the only one who can save its children when the bridge breaks in half.
A boy who loves the playground keeps running into Sammy, a boy who calls himself King and threatens to bury him, cage him with bears, or tie him to the slide — so his dad helps him figure out what to do.
A poodle growing up among three talented bulldog brothers isn't sure what makes her special — until Gaston's sister Ooh-La-La goes missing in the park and Antoinette feels a pull to find her.
Imprisoned with her family at a WWII incarceration camp, a young woman finds a small library and, in it, a quiet friendship with a man who checks out an armful of books every single day.
A picture-book biography traces Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s path from a childhood in the segregated South to becoming a minister and civil rights leader, told through his own powerful words.
A dressmaker's daughter sets out alone through a fierce snowstorm to deliver a duchess's ball gown, battling howling wind and deep drifts to complete her mother's errand.
A young girl is separated from her mother at the last moment and must sail to America alone, only to discover the address for her family in New York has smudged into illegible ink.
A young penguin named Pip-Pip longs to swim in the sea with his friends, but fear of the water holds him back until he finds the courage to take the plunge.
When every girl at the Paris boarding school falls sick on Christmas Eve, the smallest and bravest one stays well enough to take charge — and finds unexpected help from a magical rug-selling merchant.
A timid squirrel afraid of thunder, hawks, and dark forest paths must carry soup through Buckthorn Forest to her sick Granny Oak, facing creatures who want to help — and some who want the soup.
A boy named Dat starts school in a new country where every word sounds like gibberish, until a classmate finds another way to reach him besides talking.
A rat who can't pronounce his R's gets teased at school until a bigger, meaner, smarter capybara arrives — and his very speech impediment turns out to be exactly what saves the day.
