For fans of The First Rule of Punk and Save Me a Seat, Barakah Beats is a sweet, powerful, and joyous celebration of novel about a muslim girl who finds her voice on her own terms...by joining her school's most popular boy band. Twelve-year-old Nimra Sharif has spent her whole life in Islamic school, but now it's time to go to "real school." Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has Jenna, her best friend who already goes to the public school,...

If Life Was Like a Song Nina Simmons' song would be 'You Can't Always Eat What You Want.' (Peanut allergies, ugh). But that's okay, because as her best friend Brianna always said, 'We're All in This Together.' Until the first day of the seventh grade, when Brianna dumps her to be BFFs with the popular new girl. Left all alone, Nina is forced to socialize with 'her own kind'--banished to the peanut-free table with the other allergy outcasts. As a joke,...

In this version of the folk song, "The Ants Go Marching," as the Petes march along the "groovy" one gathers instruments for a musical performance.

Twelve-year-old Kacey Simon's jealousy threatens her popularity when her new crush Zander's ex-girlfriend and former lead singer, Stevie, arrives in town.

"Three talented animals--a crocodile playing a snare drum, a big brown bear with a bass, and a weasel with a banjo--form a traveling band to sing and play for the other animals in the woods"--

When Lavinia the badger catches the culprit that has been raiding her vegetable garden, she agrees to let the frightened bunny go for the promise of a great reward and she is astonished by the musical magic that the coming night brings.