A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young

The House That Wasn't There

Shiverton Hall

Mañanaland

The Lost Kingdom

Rules of the House

The Seventh Level

Silver on the Tree

A Newbery Honor winner collaborates with a new writer in this hip-hop-inspired historical thriller.

Pemba knows she's not crazy. But who is that looking out at her through her mirror's eye? And why does the apparition call her "friend?" Her real friends are back home in Brooklyn, not in the old colonial house in Colchester, Connecticut, where none of this would have happened if Daddy were still alive. But now all Pemba has is Mom and that strange old man, Abraham. Maybe he's the crazy one.

Thank goodness for Pemba's Playlist and the journal she keeps. There are so many answers deep inside that music. And so much is revealed in Pemba's poetry — the hops she writes and those coming through her iPod. Phyllys, an eighteenth-century slave girl, has answers, too. They billow out from her ghostly visits to Pemba, visits that transform both girls in ways neither expected.

In this supernatural tale, the voices of these two characters entwine to put a new spin on a paranormal story of friendship.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young

Pamela Espeland, Marilyn Nelson, Halfdan Rasmussen, 2011

The House That Wasn't There

Elana K. Arnold, 2021

Shiverton Hall

Emerald Fennell, 2012

Mañanaland

Pam Munoz Ryan, 2020

The Lost Kingdom

Matthew J. Kirby, 2013

Rules of the House

Mac Barnett, Matt Myers, 2016

The Seventh Level

Jody Feldman, 2009

Silver on the Tree

Susan Cooper, 1977