Knock Knock the ascendant kingdoms saga

Knock Knock the ascendant kingdoms sagaWinner of a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Medal and the Boston Horn Book Award A simple, powerful book for children, about an absent father and the love he leaves behind Every morning, I play a game with my father. He goes knock knock on my door and I pretend to be asleep till he gets right next to the bed. And my papa, he tells me, "I love you." But what happens when, one day, that "knock knock" doesn't come? This powerful and inspiring book shows

and grumpy Krabbit—he'd rather not be here

What is it about a junior-high crush that can send an otherwise intelligent woman into a tailspin

" —Michael Connelly

and age-appropriate answers to kids' most common questions about sex

and her newborn baby has been kidnapped

and the mysterious death of a man living by the quarry

pilot a spacecraft

and real-life father and son Willie and Bill Geist

Abbie awakens on a yacht

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

6 Emmy nominations

is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London