Leeva at Last

The Fantastic Family Whipple

The Windy Hill

The Trouble with May Amelia

A Pinch of Magic

Double Spell

Saving Lucas Biggs

Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer

To Kill a Mockingbird meets One Crazy Summer in this powerful, bittersweet debut about one girl's journey to reconnect with her mother and learn the truth about her father in the tumultuous times of the Jim Crow South.   "Timely, captivating, and lovely. So glad this book is in the world." —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming   In the small town of Alcolu, South Carolina, in 1944, 12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna. But life is not always so sunny for Ella, who gets bullied for her light skin tone and whose mother is away pursuing a jazz singer dream in Boston.

So Ella is ecstatic when her mother invites her to visit for Christmas. Little does she expect the truths she will discover about her mother, the father she never knew and her family's most unlikely history.

And after a life-changing month, she returns South and is shocked by the news that her schoolmate George has been arrested for the murder of two local white girls.

Bittersweet and eye-opening, How High the Moon is a timeless novel about a girl finding herself in a world all but determined to hold her down.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Leeva at Last

Sara Pennypacker, Matthew Cordell, 2023

The Fantastic Family Whipple

Matthew Ward, 2013

The Windy Hill

Cornelia Meigs, 1921

The Trouble with May Amelia

Jennifer L. Holm, Adam Gustavson, 2011

A Pinch of Magic

Michelle Harrison, 2019

Double Spell

Janet Lunn, 1968

Saving Lucas Biggs

Marisa De Los Santos, David Teague, 2014

Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer

Megan McDonald, Peter H. Reynolds, 2012