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Engaging non-fiction? Cute bugs? A bit of history, too? Yes, please! Enjoy the introduction and first chapter of One Long Line, Marching Caterpillars and the Scientists Who Followed Them, by Lorre Griffin Burns.

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are famous for the murder cases they have solved-but there are many other mysteries in the pages of Hazel’s casebook, including the macabre Case of the Deepdean Vampire, the baffling Case of the Blue Violet, and even their very first case of all: the Case of Lavinia’s Missing Tie. Packed with these brilliant new mini-mysteries and peppered with Daisy and Hazel’s own d...

Find out what it was like to grow up in a small mud hut in Inner Mongolia in Born Naughty, My Childhood in China, by Jin Wang and Tony Johnston.

A California boy chronicles the long, difficult Covid-19 lockdown in verses that explore his confused emotions. On the day “that started everything” and that “was also a day that ended everything,” Archie’s life is turned upside down. School is abruptly closed, his parents must work from home, and big brother Hank is ever more difficult. Archie’s asthma puts him at risk, causing his parents to ...

A collection of 13 stories, each written by a different author, centering ordinary characters with semi-extraordinary powers. The superpower is often small and easily missed by others, but can be inconvenient to the main character. The line-up is full of notable authors, including Linda Sue Park, Brian Young, and Ibi Zoboi, and the majority of the entries are quite humorous. - School Library Jo...

Weird and wonderful, eerie and exciting, and, yes, at times laugh-out-loud hilarious, let Elf Dog and Owl Head, by M.T. Anderson, catch you in its literary claws!

After returning to summer camp, besties Maggie and Nora start to drift apart as new friends and the supernatural come between them. After last year’s vampire situation, Maggie eagerly anticipates the next twist Camp Sylvania might throw at them, but Nora doesn’t want anything to do with the paranormal. She can’t help but be jealous of Maggie’s friends from last year-and when Nora gets a cool bu...

How do you cope with the unexpected moments that change everything in your world? Until what he calls “the Mess with Mom,” sixth grader Joseph Oak and his widowed English grandmother were doing okay. Between the house Grandmum owned, the money she made cleaning houses and offices, their food stamp benefits, and Joe’s free school meals, they were getting by. But about a year ago, when Joe’s most...

Set on finding a solution, Zoe starts a podcast to bring light to the exonerees’ experiences and fundraise for their restaurant. After all, Zoe knows full well the power of using her voice. But with waning public interest in their story, will anyone still be listening? On Air With Zoe Washington by Janae Marks. Published by Katherine Tegen Books.

When eleven-year-old Hank’s mom doesn’t come home, he takes care of his toddler sister, Boo, like he always does. But it’s been a week now. They are out of food and mom has never stayed away this long… Hank knows he needs help, so he and Boo seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact. But asking for help has consequences. It means social workers, and a new school, and having to ans...

Brian knows that anxiety and depression aren’t things that are magically fixed overnight, but he still doesn’t understand why it’s all hitting him so hard right now. Sure, his dad is still in prison and middle school is still stressful, but he’s seeing a therapist, he’s got good friends, and he’s doing really well on the basketball team. He should be fine, so why does he feel too tired to get o...

Time travel meets historical fiction, meet The First State of Being, by Erin Entrada Kelly, your new favorite book! You’ll definitely want to read it more than once, which will be easy because you won’t want to put it down, and you won’t want it to end!

It’s the thirty-fourth day of sixth grade, and eleven-year-old Lou wishes she could rewind time. Lou wants to go back to the ninth day of sixth grade-the day before she fought with her best friend Francie and said the terrible, horrible things she can’t unsay. Or better yet, she would go back to fifth grade when Francie was still the Old Francie. Then the new girl, Cece Clark-Duncan, passes Lou...

It’s the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris’s mother’s chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris’s grandmother, has started seeing a ghost at the threshold of her room, which seems like...

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