Your PJ Our Way Books for February 2026
PJ Our Way is proud to offer four fantastic books this month! Your reader can go on a perilous fantasy journey with Grisha the dragon, follow their own path in World War II-era London, help JB and Sidney take care of the environment, or take a Passover time-travel trip!
Be sure to have your PJ Our Way subscriber choose their book by February 10th!
The Language of Spells
By: Garret Weyr
Ages 10+
256 pages
11-year-old Maggie lives in a hotel with her poet father. Grisha is a dragon who is released from a spell, only to find that all the other dragons have disappeared. Grisha and Maggie each become the other’s first true friend, as well as inseparable companions. When they learn that a large group of dragons is trapped under a spell that has made them sleep for many years, Maggie and Grisha embark on a dangerous mission to free the prisoners. But freeing the dragons comes at an enormous cost to the two friends. This is a beautiful, charming, and poignant book, full of Jewish values and implicit Jewish content.
The British Escape
By: Leah Sokol
Ages 9+
156 pages
This choose-your-own-adventure story set in England during World War II is full of action, tension, and suspense. The reader assumes the role of a 10-year-old Jewish refugee who has been sent from Austria to London on the Kindertransport. “You” and your 5-year-old sister Ruthie are living in Rabbi Schonfeld’s house in London but are soon sent to homes in the British countryside to avoid the bombings in London. The reader is offered a series of options for responding to various events, resulting in a variety of outcomes. An afterword separates fact from fiction in the story and provides additional historical background.
Consider the Octopus
By: Nora Raleigh Baskin and Gae Polisner
Ages 10+
272 pages
In alternating voices, 12-year-olds Jeremy “JB” Barnes and Sidney Miller narrate their adventures (and misadventures) on board a scientific research ship headed toward the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. His mom may be the chief scientist on the Oceania II, but JB isn’t into science at all and wishes he were anywhere else. Science geek Sidney, however, is thrilled that an error has resulted in an invitation to take part in the ship’s symposium. Aided and abetted by her hippie grandmother, Sidney gets herself on board, where she and JB become unlikely allies, convinced they’re somehow meant to do something really important. But what can two kids do to help solve the crisis of a floating garbage island twice the size of Texas? The book takes a hard look at the desperate situation our oceans are in but leaves readers with a sense of optimism for the future. Additional Jewish content was specially created for this unique PJ Our Way edition of the novel.
One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe
By: Dara Horn
Ages 10+
152 pages
Accompanied by a wise (and wisecracking) goat, a boy travels back in time 3,000 years, stopping at various Passover seders in order to find his family’s missing afikomen and finally end their seder. (You can’t finish the seder without the afikomen… and his long-suffering family has been at the table for a whopping six months!) By the end, the boy has gained a deeper appreciation of his own family and the enduring traditions of Passover. This wacky and entertaining graphic novel is ultimately a moving story about the strength and resilience of the Jewish people. The layered, squiggly lines of the black-and-white illustrations suit the madcap and memorable time-travel tale.
Note: Quantities of each title are limited! If you see another book offered for selection this month, head over to Story Central to check it out.