Atheneum Books For Young Readers: 719 books
Trapped
How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
The amazing story of the trapped Chilean miners and their incredible rescue that Publishers Weekly calls “a riveting, in-depth recounting of the events that held the world rapt.”
In early August 2010, the unthinkable happened when a mine collapsed in Copiano, Chile, trapping 33 miners 2,000...
The Boy on the Wooden Box
How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
“Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief,” this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler’s list, “brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live” (VOYA).
This, the only...
by Maia Wojciechowska
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Maia Wojciechowska's 1965 Newbery Medal winner about a young boy struggling with his father's legacy.
Manolo was only three when his father, the great bullfighter Juan Olivar, died. But Juan is never far from Manolo's consciousness--how could he be, with the entire town of Arcangel waiting...
Can't Scare Me!
with audio recording
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
From celebrated legend Ashley Bryan, a lavishly depicted cautionary tale of fearlessness and many-headed monsters.
There was a little boy who knew no fear...
Nope, no fear at all. Not even when his grandma warns him of the giants—the two-headed giant and his three-headed brother, that...
The Youngest Marcher
The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this moving picture book that proves you’re never too little to make a difference.
Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like anybody else.
So...
Beatrice's Goat
with audio recording
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
More than anything, Beatrice longs to be a schoolgirl. But in her small African village, only children who can afford uniforms and books can go to school. Beatrice knows that with six children to care for, her family is much too poor.
But then Beatrice receives a wonderful gift from some people...
Kaddish for Grandpa in Jesus' Name Amen
with audio recording
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"When I was new, my grandpa was very old."
When Emily was two, her grandpa sang songs to her. When she was four, he read her stories. When Emily is five, her beloved grandfather dies. Her family decides to remember him in two ways: with a Christian funeral, because Grandpa was Christian, and a Jewish...
All Night, All Day
A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Ashley Bryan says, "I have subtitled this collection A Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals. It could really be called Spirituals for the Young and ALL! And so it could be, for the songs it presents can be enjoyed by people of every age and every level of musical skill.
Mr. Bryan goes...
Albert's Ballgame
with audio recording
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
It is springtime in Pleasant Valley, home of Albert the duck, the hero of several previous books by Leslie Tryon, including Albert's Thanksgiving and Alberts Alphabet. What is the industrious Albert involved in this time?
Springtime is the opening season for America's favorite pastime. It's time to...
by Fredrick L. McKissack Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
A natural-born athlete, Jomo Rogers has talent that is easy to spot on the football field, and local reporters are taking notice. But the buzz keeps focusing on his potential, on his promise. Jomo doesn’t want to be the “next big thing.” He wants to be the real deal . . . in as little time as...
Locomotive
with audio recording
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The Caldecott Medal Winner, Sibert Honor Book, and New York Times bestseller Locomotive is a rich and detailed sensory exploration of America’s early railroads, from the creator of the “stunning” (Booklist) Moonshot.
It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling...
by Rune Michaels
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Daisy, otherwise known as Daze, keeps hearing her dead mother's voice. Sometimes it's because of her dad, who likes to watch old home movies when he can't sleep. Sometimes it's because of her brother, who was too young to remember Mom, and needs to be reminded by looking at photographs and watching...
by George Ella Lyon, Benn Lyon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Set sail into the world of boats in this buoyant companion to Trucks Roll! and Planes Fly!
Sails and engines
paddles and oars
make the trip
from shore to shore.
Boats float!
From steamships to ghostships, to the little and big in-between ships, this fun, rhyming book explores...
Our Story Begins
Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.
Everyone’s...