Relaxing Reads for Stress Awareness Month

In the first volume of the popular The Land of Stories series, siblings Alex and Conner are magically transported into the world of fairy tales.

Inspired by her father's fantastical stories, Minli sets off on a journey to change her family's fortune.

In this companion novel to When Dimple Met Rishi, Ashish Patel allows his parents to set him up on a series of dates with Sweetie Nair, an athlete who wants to prove to her traditional mother that she can be happy at any size.

Hugo is an orphan living in a train station in Paris when he meets two strangers who will change his life. Learn these words from Brian Selznick's captivating mystery, told through a combination of images and words.

Arthur and Ben couldn't be more different. Arthur, a Jewish teenager from Georgia, is in New York City for a summer internship that he hopes will help him get into an Ivy League college. Ben, a native New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent, is attending summer school so that he can avoid repeating 11th grade. Find out what happens when a series of coincidences brings these two together.

In this graphic novel, neighborhood kids create imaginative costumes and personas to entertain themselves during the summer.

After learning that they are going to be evicted from their Brooklyn home, the five Vanderbeeker children come up with a scheme to convince their landlord to allow them to stay.

Author Lisa Graff cooks up a plot with magical ingredients and just the right amount of sweetness as she tells this tale of an orphan with a talent for baking and a mysterious past. Will this list of words be a piece of cake for you?

In this hilarious novel, 13-year-old Nate sneaks off to New York City to audition for a role in a Broadway play. Learn this list in which the vocabulary from the novel takes center stage. Break a leg!

In this classic novel, an orphaned girl goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Learn these words from the translation by Elisabeth P. Stork.

In this graphic novel, Astrid deals with changing friendships during a summer at roller derby camp.

Dimple Shah is thrilled to be spending her summer studying web development at Stanford University — but she doesn't know that her traditional parents are planning for her to meet (and eventually marry!) fellow student Rishi Patel.

Amina, a Pakistani-American girl, struggles to balance her commitment to her culture with her desire to fit in. When her mosque is vandalized, Amina must finally find her voice.

Aster is forbidden from learning magic because he is a boy, but when a sinister creature threatens his world, performing magic may be the only way he can save his family and friends. Learn these words from the bewitching graphic novel by Molly Knox Ostertag.

Eleven-year-old Imogene loves working with her family at the Renaissance Faire, especially now that she is finally old enough to train as a squire. At the same time, she must face an unexpectedly difficult quest: surviving middle school.

A robot named Roz attempts to make a home for herself on an island inhabited only by wild animals.

Mr. Popper, who dreams of exploring the polar regions, receives a penguin as a gift — and soon he training an entire penguin family to be part of Popper's Performing Penguins.

This classic novel tells the story of three pets who go on a quest through the wilderness to reunite with their owner.

Marly's family moves to the country to help her father, a World War II veteran, find peace and joy.

While searching for her lost dog, Snapdragon meets Jacks, an old woman who is supposedly a witch — and who has a surprising connection to Snapdragon's family.

While visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy tries to fulfill a promise to help a magical creature find his way home.

Iris is a 12-year-old girl who is deaf; when she learns about Blue 55, a whale that sings at a frequency other whales can't understand, she vows to find a way to communicate with him.

When her parents take jobs at a western theme park in Arizona, Aven gets caught up in a local mystery — and tries to adjust to a new school.

In medieval England, an unconventional teenage girl records events in her daily life, including her attempts to thwart her father's plans to marry her off.

Eleven-year-old Morrigan Crow escapes a curse by traveling to the magical city of Nevermoor, where she must compete for a place in the exclusive Wundrous Society.

In this fantasy novel, Tristran Thorn ventures into the land of Faerie to find a fallen star for his beloved.

Twelve-year-old Malú loves punk rock, but her mother and the strict principal at her new school definitely do not. With the help of her fellow "misfits," Malú fights to express who she truly is.

Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean writes letters to the boys for whom she has romantic feelings — letters she never intends to send. When someone starts secretly mailing the letters out, Lara Jean and one of the recipients, Peter, decide to team up and fake a relationship to make their current crushes jealous.

In this funny and heartwarming novel, sixteen-year-old Simon Spier finds himself in the middle of a real-life drama when a classmate threatens to expose his secrets. Learn these words from Becky Albertalli's award-winning debut.

Alice falls asleep in a meadow and wakes in a surreal world inhabited by characters such as the White Rabbit, the Red Queen, and the Cheshire Cat. Learn these words from Lewis Carroll's delightful and witty novel.

While shopping for groceries, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni finds a dog that will change her life.

For falling in love with a human princess, a mouse named Despereaux Tilling is sentenced to death in a rat-filled dungeon.

A classic of children's literature, this book tells the story of an orphan with a persistent, infectious sense of optimism. Read the full text here.

In this prequel to The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet life until a group of dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf enlist him in their quest for a dragon's treasure.

After meeting the Tucks, a family that is able to live forever after drinking from a magical spring, Winnie Foster questions whether immortality is a blessing or a curse.

While she attends college, an orphaned young woman writes letters to her mysterious benefactor.

This poetry collection celebrates the ordinary events and everyday objects that make a neighborhood special.

The title character of this novel is a china rabbit that travels through many hands. Learn the words that award-winning author Kate DiCamillo used to bring Edward Tulane to life.

In this novel filled with wordplay, the eternally bored Milo travels to the Lands Beyond and embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Learn these words from Norton Juster's beloved classic.

When Claudia Kincaid and her brother run away from home, they find themselves caught up in a mystery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Learn these words from E. L. Konigsburg's award-winning novel.

In this hilarious and heartwarming novel, small-town girl Willowdean surprises everyone—including herself—when she enters a local pageant.

In L.M. Montgomery's classic novel, imaginative and outspoken orphan Anne Shirley comes to the town of Avonlea to live with her new guardians.

In this reimagining of the Cinderella story, Ella tries to escape a curse that prevents her from disobeying orders.

The narrator of this novel is Red, an oak tree on which people hang their wishes every year. When Samar, a new girl in the neighborhood, faces bullying and intolerance, Red attempts to rally the local animals and intervene.

William Goldman's beloved fairy tale features a princess, a pirate, and a villainous prince. Do you think these words from the novel will stump you? Inconceivable!

Jaxon and his friends Vikram and Kavita are unexpectedly tasked with delivering a bag of baby dragons to a magical land.