Orem Library

Ava's parents are on an adventure to find the mysterious ghost orchid. But Ava knows a special secret: the journey can be just as magical as the destination. Learn how to look and wonder with this young explorer.

A reverent celebration of learning to swim among a diverse cast of children and families who each experience the mysterious joys of water in nature.

All around the world, a variety of animal parents show the unique ways they love their children.

When a child in a museum asks how dinosaurs became extinct, Dad comes up with a list of silly answers.

A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion.

Two years ago Tell and Wren's mother went down the mountain and never came back; now, with their father blinded by a shard of black glass, the two children will take the same journey to try and save their father.

Everybody knows that dragons can breathe fire, but unlike her brothers and sisters, this little dragon is different. She doesn't like fire but she desperately wants to fly and make her Dad proud. In an attempt at flying, she finds herself plunging into the lake. Being underwater should be wet, cold and horrid, but it feels AMAZING. Could it be that this little dragon isn't a dragon at all?

¡¿Sopa verde?! ¡Guácala, no para mí! O podría ser... ¿deliciosa? ¡Ayudar a mami y mamá a cocinar le da a este niño la valentía de probar una nueva comida! After initially refusing a vegetable soup he helped cook, a young child tastes it and likes it.

I never got the chance to know you and play with you, but I think of you a lot. A child eagerly waits for their younger sibling to be born. They help Daddy decorate the room, pick out toys with Grandma and build a sled with Grandpa. Auntie and Uncle are excited too, and the narrator helps them to pick out an exciting book and prepare a magic trick to show the baby. When Mommy and Daddy come back from the hospital, there is no baby with them -- only...

Me Tall, You Small is a silly romp through a parent and child's daily lives, exploring the differences between being an adult and a child when doing various activities, from kicking the soccer ball around to cooking together to snuggling in bed after a long day. It's a dynamic readaloud with whimsical use of language (for instance, when playing in the mud: Me romp / You STOMP; when snuggling in bed: Me cuddle / You cuddlier). Some rhyming, some onomatopoeia,...