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* My Daddy Is a Cowboy. By Stephanie Seales. Illus. by C. G. Esperanza. June 2024. 48p. Abrams, $18.99 (9781419760815). PreS-Gr. 2. Saddle up for the absolute joyride of this [...]

Channel your inner Mr. Lemoncello by adding an extra twist to a middle-grade mystery collection with these selections that feature puzzle components in their plots. Especially popular with advanced readers, [...]

Benji Zeb Is a Ravenous Werewolf. By Deke Moulton. July 2024. 304p. Tundra, $17.99 (9781774880524). Gr. 4-8. Benji Zeb is a ravenous werewolf, although that doesn't mean what you think. [...]

* My Antarctica: True Adventures in the Land of Mummified Seals, Space Robots, and So Much More. By G. Neri. Illus. by Corban Wilkin. Mar. 2024. 96p. Candlewick, $18.99 (9781536223323). [...]

Lion of the Sky. By Ritu Hemnani. May 2024. 416p. HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray, $19.99 (9780063284487). Gr. 4-6. On the eve of India's Independence Day, in 1947, middle child Raj longs for his [...]

A bumper crop of recent picture books about community gardens can grow your collection of green stories while nurturing a fruitful sense of shared investment across generations of readers. For [...]

The Cookie Crumbles. By Tracy Badua and Alechia Dow. June 2024. 320p. HarperCollins/Quill Tree, $18.99 (9780063254589). Gr. 3-6. Soon-to-be eighth-graders Laila and Lucy bonded over a cupcake in kindergarten and [...]

* Ursula Upside Down. By Corey R. Tabor. Illus. by the author. May 2024. 40p. HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray, $19.99 (9780063275560). PreS-Gr. 2. 'Ursula was one happy catfish, swimming through the world.' With [...]

Gut Reaction. By Kirby Larson and Quinn Wyatt. Mar. 2024. 272p. Scholastic, $18.99 (9781338893137). Gr.4-7. Tess has a knife in her gut. Not started-a-new-school-for-eighth-grade nerves or misses-her-late-dad emotions but a [...]

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers. By Emily Dickinson. Illus. by Tim Hopgood. Mar. 2024. 32p. Baker & Taylor/Paw Prints, $18.99 (9781223188164). PreS-Gr. 2.811.4. A wide-eyed child peers out her [...]

Green: The Story of Plant Life on Our Planet. By Nicola Davies. Illus. by Emily Sutton. Mar. 2024. 40p. Candlewick, $18.99 (9781536231410). K-Gr.3.581. Lush landscapes and urgent environmental insights unite [...]

The Lost Mitten. By Jannie Ho. Art by the author. Nov. 2023. 40p. Holiday, $14.99 (9780823453153). K-Gr. 2.741.5. Rabbit and Mouse find a cheery red mitten in the snow beside [...]

* To the Ice. By Thomas Tidholm. Illus. by AnnaClara Tidholm. Nov. 2023. 80p. Gecko, $18.99 (9781776575077). Gr. 1-4. Three children--brothers Jack and Max and our narrator, Ida--find themselves adrift [...]

Coyote Queen. By Jessica Vitalis. Oct. 2023. 272p. Greenwillow, $18.99 (9780063314405). Gr.4-7. Twelve-year-old Felicity Ulyssa Dahlers, 'Fud,' lives in a trailer in rural Wyoming with her mom and Larry--her mom's [...]

Look and Cook Snacks: A First Book of Recipes in Pictures. By Valorie Fisher. Illus. by the author. Oct. 2023. 56p. Astra/Astra Young Readers, $19.99 (9781662620447). PreS-Gr. 2.641.5. Budding chefs [...]

* A Little Bit Super: With Small Powers Come Big Problems. Ed. by Leah Henderson and Gary D. Schmidt. Ulus, by Jarrett J. Krosoczka. Apr. 2024. 288p. Clarion, $18.99 (9780358683421). [...]

I Lived inside a Whale. By Xin Li. Illus. by the author. Feb. 2024. 48p. Little, Brown, $18.99 (9780316492270). PreS-Gr. 1. Emma's 'world was too loud ... too busy ... [...]

* Olivetti. By Allie Millington. Mar. 2024. 256p. illus. Feiwel and Friends, $17.99 (9781250326935). Gr.4-6. An introverted boy and his missing mother's cherished typewriter plumb forgotten family stories while journeying [...]

The Reckoning. By Wade Hudson. Jan. 2024. 256p. Crown, $18.99 (9780593647776). Gr. 4-6. Gramps helped aspiring filmmaker Lamar buy a camcorder, and now the 12-year-old is determined to find 'something [...]

Just Shy of Ordinary. By A. J. Sass. Jan. 2024. 368p. Little, Brown, $16.99 (9780316506175). Gr.4-7. Hoping to disrupt their secretly mounting anxiety, 13-year-old Shai creates a 'new normal' that [...]

* Max in the House of Spies. By Adam Gidwitz. Feb. 2024. 320p. Dutton, $18.99 (9780593112083). Gr. 3-6. What if the Holocaust hadn't happened? What if someone had stopped it [...]

Your Lonely Nights Are Over. By Adam Sass. Sept. 2023.416p. Viking, $19.99 (9780593526583). Gr. 9-12. Enmeshed and amorous besties Cole Cardoso and Frankie Dearie are ready to leave behind the [...]

My Day with Dad. By Rae Crawford. Illus. by the author. May 2023.32p. Holiday, $15.99 (9780823452637). PreS-Gr. 1. A gap-toothed child spends a fun-filled day with their father and pup [...]

Code Red. By Joy McCullough. June 2023.240p. Atheneum, $17.99 (9781534496262). Gr. 4-7. Sometimes you don't get it until you get it. Thirteen-year-old Eden left gymnastics after an injury, and her [...]

I Am a Dinosaur. By Jarod Rosello. Art by the author. 2023. 112p. Random/RH Graphic, $10.99 (9780593427781). K-Gr. 3.741.5. A little bedlam brings a lot of giggles in a zany [...]

Snow Day. By Dawn Quigley. Illus. by Tara Audibert. 2023. 96p. HarperCollins/Heartdrum, $17.99 (9780063015432); paper, $6.99 (9780063015449). Gr. 1-3. Spunky seven-year-old Josephine 'Jo Jo' Makoons Azure, a first-grader living and [...]

Final Word. By Janet Sumner Johnson. Oct 2023. 384p. Pixel+lnk, $18.99 (9781645951964); e-book, $10.99 (9781645951988). Gr. 4-7. Facing eviction from their motel, 13-yearold Gordon convinces his genius twin, Hope, that [...]

* Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality. By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. Illus. by Alex Bostic. Nov. 2023. 40p. Carolrhoda, $19.99 (9781728419237). Gr. 3-5.379.2. [...]

* The Only Way to Make Bread. By Cristina Quintero. Illus. by Sarah Gonzales. Oct. 2023. 40p. Tundra, $18.99 (9780735271760). PreS-Gr. 2. You'll want to make bread after reading this [...]

Forsooth. By Jimmy Matejek-Morris. Nov. 2023.360p. Carolrhoda, $19.99 (9781728457598). Gr.5-8. Calvin Conroy's performance in Cinderella was the talk of the seventh grade, but not for the reasons he'd hoped. When [...]

Eight Dates and Nights. By Betsy Aldredge. Oct. 2023.240P. Delacorte/Underlined, paper, $10.99 (9780593710333). Gr. 8-11. Hardened 17-year-old New Yorker Hannah Levin isn't thrilled to be spending the start of Hanukkah [...]

Kayla and Kugel's Silly Sukkot. By Ann D. Koffsky. Illus. by the author. Sept. 2023.24p. Behrman/Apples & Honey, $18.95 (9781681156262). PreS-K. A cheery child, Kayla, and her exuberant dog, Kugel, [...]

Our Wish for You: A Story about Open Adoption. By Dano Moreno. Illus. by Ryan O'Rourke. Sept 2023. 32p. Charlesbridge, $17.99 (9781623543556). PreS-K. Adoptive parents reflect on the hopes and [...]

Melvina Whitmoore (More or Less a Horror Story). By Faith Capalia. Illus. by the author. Sept. 2023. 40p. Harper, $18.99 (9780063247826). PreS-Gr. 2. 'Melvina Whitmoore was afraid of everything. This [...]

The Girl from Earth's End. By Tara Dairman. Mar. 2023. 384P. Candlewick, $18.99 (9781536224801). Gr. 3-6. Isolated Earth's End, with its crumbling monastery walls and carefully tended garden, is the [...]

Cake vs. Pie. By Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen. Illus. by Stephani Stilwell. June 2023.32p. Clarion, $19.99 (9780358555605). PreS-Gr. 1. Things get heated when 'warm and open' newcomer Pie steals the spotlight from [...]

I Have Seven Dogs. By Molly Horan. Illus. by Dana Wulfekotte. June 2023.32p. Penguin/Nancy Paulsen, $18.99 (9780593324356). PreS-Gr. 1. Zoe would love to have a pet dog, but her family's [...]

Yukie's Island: My Family's World War II Story. By Yukie Kimura and others. Illus. by Kodo Kimura. July 2023.48p. Roaring Brook, $19.99 (9781250206503). PreS-Gr. 2.952, A Japanese survivor of WWII's [...]

The Prisoner and the Writer. By Heather Camlot. Illus. by Sophie Casson. Oct. 2022.64p. Groundwood, $14.99 (9781773066325). Gr. 4-7 Readers will see echoes of current events in this scandalous story [...]

Life throws curveballs to even our youngest readers, and it's important that kids with adverse childhood experiences still see themselves in stories. Think of this as your 'In Case of [...]

Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold. By Jessica Outram. May 2023. 190p. illus. Second Story, paper, $12.95 (9781772603187). Gr. 3-6. A treasure map sparks a coastal Canadian Metis eight-year-old's search [...]

Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success. By Jessica Parra. May 2023.320p. St. Martin's/Wednesday, $20 (9781250862525); e-book, $10.99 (9781250862532). Gr. 9-12. Banned from baking outside of the shops her Cuban immigrant parents [...]

The Witch of Woodland. By Laurel Snyder. May 2023.304p. HarperCollins/Walden Pond, $19.99 (9780062836656). Gr. 4-7. Zipporah Chava McConnell--aka Zippy--is going to tell you the story of what happened during the [...]

College applications: the stuff of stress and heartache, and an annual rite of passage for millions of teens. Outplacement isn't a cookie-cutter experience, and YA literature doesn't shy away from [...]

The Jake Show. By Joshua S. Levy. May 2023. 240p. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen, $18.99 (9780063248199). Gr. 4-7. Torn between polarized parents after a messy divorce, 12-year-old, TV-loving Jake Lightman pleases everyone [...]

* My Indigo World: A True Story of the Color Blue. By Rosa Chang. illus. by the author. May 2023. 40p. Astra/Minedition, $17.99 (9781662650659). K-Gr. 3. 667. Other hues will [...]

* If You Want to Ride a Horse. By Amy Novesky. Illus. by Gael Abary. Mar. 2024. 40p. Holiday/Neal Porter, $18.99 (9780823456956); e-book, $11.99 (9780823457564). PreS-Gr. 2. You know those [...]

On All Other Nights: A Passover Celebration in 14 Stories. Ed. by Chris Baron and others. Illus. by Shannon Hochman. Mar. 2024. 256p. Abrams/Amulet, $18.99 (9781419767296). Gr. 3-6. Few Jewish [...]

Iceberg. By Jennifer A. Nielsen. Mar. 2023.352p. illus. Scholastic, $17.99 (9781338795028). Gr. 4-7. Hazel Rothbury stows aboard the Titanic and finds friendships in unexpected quarters before tragedy strikes in Nielsen's [...]

Watch Me Bloom: A Bouquet of Haiku Poems for Budding Naturalists. By Krina Patel-Sage. Illus. by the author. Mar. 2023.32p. Lantana, $18.99 (9781913747992). PreS-Gr. 2. A book of haiku / [...]