Washoe County Library System

When the coronavirus hits Hong Kong, ten-year-old Knox Wei-Evans’s mom makes the last-minute decision to move him and his siblings back to California, where they think they will be safe. Suddenly, Knox has two days to prepare for an international move—and for leaving his dad, who has to stay for work. At his new school in California, Knox struggles with being the new kid. His classmates think that because he’s from Asia, he must have brought...

Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.

When a child discovers a penny lying on the ground and decides to wish upon it, her imagination soars and leads her through a magical journey made up of beautiful mermaids, unicorns, dancing slippers and more.

A wordless picture book in which a girl sees a bicycle she wants to buy, works hard for a kindly neighbor to earn the money for it, then gets a pleasant surprise.

Ruben feels like he is the only kid without a bike. His friend Sergio reminds him that his birthday is coming, but Ruben knows that the kinds of birthday gifts he and Sergio receive are not the same. After all, when Ruben's mom sends him to Sonny's corner store for groceries, sometimes she doesn't have enough money for everything on the list. So when Ruben sees a dollar bill fall out of someone's purse, he picks it up and puts it in his pocket. But...

"Babymouse discovers that babysitting is not as easy as it sounds"--

When his parents pressure him to get a job, Gerald decides to start selling potions, and dreams of becoming rich from the profit.