Abrams Books For Young Readers imprint: 229 books
Ada's Ideas
The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet, and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young, and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron’s “mad” love of poetry. But Ada remained fascinated with her father...
Barbed Wire Baseball
How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A true story set in a Japanese-American internment camp in World War II. As a young boy, Kenichi Zenimura (Zeni) wanted to be a baseball player, even though everyone told him he was too small. He grew up to become a successful athlete, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. But when the Japanese attacked...
Milestones of Flight
From Hot-Air Balloons to SpaceShipOne
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Milestones of Flight takes readers soaring through the high points of American aviation: from the Wright brothers and their competitors to the military pilots who first circumnavigated the globe, from the initial space rocket to the moon walk, from the earliest manmade satellite to today’s spy drones....
Black Elk's Vision
A Lakota Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Told from the Native American point of view, Black Elk’s Vision provides a unique perspective on American history.
From recounting the visions Black Elk had as a young boy, to his involvement in the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee, as well as his journeys to New York...
Coco Chanel
Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco’s development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent...
by Erica S. Perl
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
It’s Ida’s first day of school. She carries her new lunch box and a long, blue string with her special friend Dotty attached to it. A big, colorfully spotted pal with horns, Dotty just happens to be invisible. On that first day of school, Ida and Dotty find out there are plenty of other imaginary...
Library on Wheels
Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
If you can’t bring the man to the books, bring the books to the man.
Mary Lemist Titcomb (1852–1932) was always looking for ways to improve her library. As librarian at the Washington County Free Library in Maryland, Titcomb was concerned that the library was not reaching all the people it...
Buffalo Bird Girl
A Hidatsa Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This fascinating picture book biography tells the childhood story of Buffalo Bird Woman—a Hidatsa Indian born around 1839. Through her true story, readers learn what it was like to be part of this Native American community, which lived along the Missouri River in the Dakotas, a society that depended...
The Eye That Never Sleeps
How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
From award-winning author Marissa Moss comes the first children’s book about Allan Pinkerton, one of America’s greatest detectives. Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln, but few know anything about the spy who saved him! Allan Pinkerton’s life changed when he helped the Chicago Police...
A Mango in the Hand
A Story Told Through Proverbs
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Francisco is finally old enough to journey to the mango grove all by himself to gather the mangoes for a special dinner. But bees swarm the fruit, and Francisco has trouble picking them from the tree. He returns to his father several times, and each time his father shares a different proverb to inspire...
by Nikki McClure
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
**Waiting for High Tide has earned two STARRED reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus! **
For one young boy, it’s a perfect summer day to spend at the beach with his family. He scours the high tide line for treasures, listens to the swizzling sound of barnacles, and practices walking...
by Troy Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
In this companion to the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award–winning Trombone Shorty, join a scrappy young musician named Shorty on a tour of his beloved New Orleans. After letting his band down by missing rehearsal, Shorty has some serious questions about what it means to be a leader....
by Robbie Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation.
Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen...
Beautiful Moon
A Child's Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A young boy wakes. He has forgotten to say his prayers. Outside his window, a beautiful harvest moon illuminates the city around him and its many inhabitants. As the moon slowly makes its way across the heavens, the boy offers a simple prayer for the homeless, the hungry, and others.
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