Shadows in the Dawn: The Lemurs of Madagascar

• Genre: Nonfiction

Lasky and photographer Christopher Knight follow primatologist Alison Jolly and a group of endangered lemurs on the island of Madagascar.

Dreams in the Golden Country

• Series: The Diaries
• Genre: Fiction

Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, tells of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.

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Monarchs

• Genre: Nonfiction

A photographic depiction of one the few true migratory butterflies, which journey from the coast of Maine to the forests of El Rosario, Mexico, and Pacific Grove, California, where they gather by the millions to winter.

She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!

• Genre: Picture

Minna and Harriet, two proper Boston ladies of the 1890s, are appalled when the fashion for feathers on ladies' hats gets even more extreme, with whole birds perched on top. They soon begin a conservation movement that ultimately succeeds in passing laws protecting many birds.

The Most Beautiful Roof in the World

• Genre: Nonfiction

Lasky and photographer Chistopher Knight offer an unprecedented glimpse into the rainforest canopy as they trail scientist Meg Lowman.

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Journey to the New World

• Series: The Diaries
• Genre: Fiction

Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.

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Dark Swan

• Genre: For Grownups

A Calista Jacobs Mystery

Memoirs of a Bookbat

• Genre: Fiction

Fourteen-year-old Harper, an avid reader of fantasy who must hide her books from her fundamentalist parents, comes to realize that their public promotion of censorship threatens her freedom to make her own choices.

Days of the Dead

• Genre: Nonfiction

Lasky and photographer Christopher Knight capture the spirit of los Dias de Muertos, the Days of the Dead, Mexico's celebration that commemorates ancestors.

The Gates of the Wind

• Genre: Picture

Gamma Lee leaves her peaceful village to journey to the mountains and the place called the Gates of the Wind, where she and the wind battle each other until they learn how to live together.