Tweet Most times we leave our homes, we encounter plants of some kind. Flowers, shrubs, and trees are present even in urban environments. But few of us think about how these plants grow and attract pollinators and reproduce in a … Continue reading
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Tweet When Makalani returns to family’s home on the island of Kaua’i for her grandmother’s birthday, little does she know that she has a mystery to solve: two of her cousins are missing and no one seems concerned except her. … Continue reading
Tweet Version 1.0.0 An unknown threat forces Gwen and her family and everyone she knows to flee. Packing bare essentials, they set out in their car, and so does everyone else from their town. When the threat catches up to … Continue reading
Tweet Ben Bellini gets the Spelling Bee bug when he becomes his school’s champ and advances to regionals. That’s where he finds out that people take the competitions seriously, and most contestants study for them. Ben’s friends don’t really get … Continue reading
Tweet Miranda, Germaine, and Sicily met as teens on the set of a popular kids show. They basked in the attention they received, though their outward success and wild times captured by paparazzi hid the challenges they went through in … Continue reading
Tweet It’s not unusual for kids (or adults) to not know what to say when they meet someone with an obvious disability. Author Katie Mazeika wants to change that with her picture book, Maybe Just Ask Me! The story follows … Continue reading
Tweet Loren, known as Lo, comes from a long line of psychic women who have visions of their soulmates before they meet. Her own mom died when she was young, and she’s never had a vision of her own until … Continue reading
Tweet As a Filipina American girl, Nina Mata did not know much about Asian American women who stood out for their actions. As an author and illustrator, she has set out to provide such a guide for her daughter and … Continue reading
