Akron Public Library

"Beep! Beep! Beep! Meet Blue. A muddy country road is no match for this little pickup--that is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route. And they're willing to whatever it takes to get their pal back on the road. Filled with truck sounds and animals noises, here is a rollicking homage to the power of friendship and the rewards of helping others. This bestselling...

Rat brothers Louie and Ralphie Ratso try to prove they can be as rough and tough as their father in the Big City, but every time they try to show how tough they are, they end up accidentally doing good deeds instead.

"Every night when Sonia goes to bed, Mami asks her the same question: How did you help today? And since Sonia wants to help her community, just like her Mami does, she always makes sure she has a good answer to Mami’s question. In a story inspired by her own family’s desire to help others, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes young readers on a journey through a neighborhood where kids and adults, activists and bus drivers, friends and...

Geappolis is hidden under a blanket of snow until a red crawler tractor saves the day.

When Captain Squint and his band of pirates are sentenced to do a good deed, they have problems figuring out just what that means.

Biscuit the puppy finds his own way to help feed the pets at Mr. Gray's Pet Shop.

When the neighborhood kids don't have a place to play ball, Mighty Mike decides it's time to build a ball field.

Waylon gives up a chance to meet a famous astrophysicist to help his sister, his father, and a friend when they need him most, but gains a much greater reward.

When Jack's efforts to find a use for the moose he has brought home ends in disaster, Jack's mother says the moose has to go--until she realizes that being loved is the best use of all.

The last thing Mighty Mike wants to do on a muddy, rainy day is go back out in a storm, but he always answers calls for help.