Books like What Do You Do With an Idea?
By Kobi Yamada
For the kid who blurts out big, strange, wonderful ideas and needs to hear that they're worth keeping. Quiet, thoughtful, and quietly triumphant — more a meditation than a story with twists.
An original poem celebrates girls and girlhood in all their forms, honoring how girls have shaped history while calling them to stand together and march boldly into the future.
Three young rebels find each other while playing outside, and when a local lagoon dries up and traps a bird friend, they call on their ancestors to help.
A boy whose mind bubbles nonstop with ideas and questions struggles to focus at school, until a friend helps him see that his one-of-a-kind brain is something to be proud of.
A young dreamer who learns to read from her mother's tombstone runs away with a poet at sixteen, then on a stormy night in Switzerland invents a monster story that becomes Frankenstein.
A young bat named Chiro must fly out into the world alone for the first time, on a very dark night, and learns to trust the song inside him to find his way.
A thoughtful girl whispers her wish to change the world to a paper crane each night, and slowly learns to push past feeling invisible so her light can shine.
A groundbreaking basketball player soars above the rim with a style no one had seen before, then takes a stand when hotels and restaurants refuse him for being Black.
A friendly guide to the brain shows kids how mistakes and challenges actually help their brain grow stronger, introducing real parts like neurons and the prefrontal cortex along the way.
A true story of a young woman who climbs on her motorcycle alone and rides around the entire world, hitting flat tires and falls but always learning something new and getting back up.
A secret night-time inventor builds gadgets from odds and ends, but hides them under her bed until her great-great-aunt Rose visits and helps her see her crashed flying machine as a success, not a failure.
Two sisters wake before sunrise six days a week to practice tennis, pushing through boos and taunts from a sport that didn't expect them, on their way to becoming legends.
A confident Black boy affirms everything he is — creative, funny, brave, sometimes afraid, always resilient — celebrating his own worth in a string of joyful, declarative statements.
