Kevin Henkes

Penny instantly loves the doll her grandmother sends her, but finding the perfect name for her is a challenge.

Penny comes home from school eager to share her very own song, but must wait until the time is right to teach it to her parents and the babies.

A mouse named Wemberly, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school.

A brilliant, touching coming-of-age story, and a Newbery Honor Book.

Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends, but they weren't. Weeks after a tragic accident, all that is left are eerie connections between the two girls, former classmates who both kept the same secret without knowing it.

Now, even while on vacation at the ocean, Martha can't stop thinking about Olive. Things only get more complicated

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Penny feels guilty after taking a beautiful blue marble that she sees in Mrs. Goodwin's grass, but gets a pleasant surprise when she goes to return it the next day.

When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding.

When Kitten mistakes the full moon for a bowl of milk, she ends up tired, wet, and hungry trying to reach it.

On his eighth birthday, Billy Miller wishes for something exciting to happen. None of his wishes are answered the way he expects, but he does have lots of surprises--and the final one is possibly the best one ever. Billy Miller is back! The stand-alone companion to two-time Newbery Honor author Kevin Henkes's award-winning, acclaimed, and bestselling The Year of Billy Miller, Billy Miller Makes a Wish is a laugh-out-loud funny and accessible story...

Snow falls, animals burrow, and children prepare for the wonders winter brings.

Everything is yellow, red, orange. Everything is chilly, frisky, gusty. Everything is changing, turning. It's the middle of Fall. Can you see it? Can you taste it? Can you smell it? Can you imagine it?