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Fall 2024

Searching for Lucky #3002: A Ben and Blue Mystery

From the Series Ben and Blue

Ben was never supposed to find out about his father's mysterious past, but when a school project forces him to confront his mother, she can no longer ignore the secrets she's kept all these… Read More →

  • Lexile: 360
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2025
Fall 2024

Bear's Big Idea

Every day that Bear and Fish spend together is a good day. Fish always has the perfect idea for what to do! One day, it's Bear's turn to make a plan. She promises Fish something BIG! But when Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: Defending Nature: How the US Military Protects Threatened and Endangered Species
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Fall 2024

Defending Nature: How the US Military Protects Threatened and Endangered Species

The United States Department of Defense has more than four hundred military bases across the country. They are used to house and train personnel, keep watch of enemies, support allies, and .… Read More →

  • Dewey: 591.6809759/99
  • Copyright: 2025
Cover: Good Night, Belly Button
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Fall 2024

Good Night, Belly Button

Baby is ready to sleep, so it's time to say good night—all the way from toes to nose! With each new blanket-page longer than the previous one, the cozy check blanket gradually tucks the baby… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

Perfect Match: The Story of Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton

When Althea Gibson first dreamed of joining the big American tennis leagues, she was denied because she was Black. Angela Buxton dreamed of joining the best tennis clubs in Britain, but she… Read More →

  • Dewey: 796.342092/52
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

Rats to the Rescue: The Unlikely Heroes Making Cambodia Safe

Heroes come in all shapes, sizes, and species! Growing up in Cambodia, Malen knew that dangers from a long-ago war lay hidden underground. Buried explosives forced her and many others to… Read More →

  • Dewey: 636.935088
  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: Starlight Symphony
Starred Review & Award Count 2
Fall 2024

Starlight Symphony

Eee-oh-lay! Chirp-a-chirp! Rat-a-tat! Nature is full of music. Listen in as a wood thrush, a cricket, a woodpecker, and many other animals perform a symphony under the stars. Rhyming verse… Read More →

  • Dewey: 591.59/4
  • Copyright: 2025
Cover: The Remarkables: The Most Incredible Children I've Met — So Far!
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Fall 2024

The Remarkables: The Most Incredible Children I've Met — So Far!

Meet 38 extraordinary children: an electric child, a flying child, elastic, invisible, miniature, a child made of cake. The Remarkables is a big book of fantasy and humor that entertains and Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

They Thought They Buried Us

Horror fan and aspiring film director Yuiza gets a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. As one of the few students of color at Our Lady of… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: We Shall Not Be Denied: A Timeline of Voting Rights and Suppression in America
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Fall 2024

We Shall Not Be Denied: A Timeline of Voting Rights and Suppression in America

If you're under 18, you might be thinking, "Why do voting rights matter to me? I'm too young to vote." Voting is how our country chooses government leaders to make important decisions that… Read More →

  • ATOS: 5.7
  • Dewey: 324.6/20973
  • Copyright: 2025
Fall 2024

Freedom Braids

Gather the midnight strands, tend the roots that gave you life, weave hopes into pathways— paths that lead you home. Day after day, Nemy sows seeds, pulls weeds, and strips leaves in the… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: Inkflower
Starred Review & Award Count 1 1
Fall 2024

Inkflower

Inspired by a true story . . . Lisa's father has six months to live and a story to tell about a boy sent to Auschwitz—a boy who lost everything and started again. It's a story he has kept… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

A Rainy Dragon Day

What's more perfect than a day on the sofa while the rain patters on the windows? I'm just settling down with books, cocoa, and my long-haired dachshund, when the doorbell rings. It's Fred… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: An Etrog from Across the Sea
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Fall 2024

An Etrog from Across the Sea

Praise for An Etrog from Across the Sea by Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky, illustrated by Stacey Dressen McQueen: Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner Papa has promised to bring home a… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities around the World
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Fall 2024

The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities around the World

From the Series Queer History Project

What if you discovered that the whole concept of a gender binary is an illusion? While many people identify as men or women, that is not all there is. The idea that all humans fall into one… Read More →

  • Dewey: 305.3
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

Jelly-Boy

What happens when a jellyfish falls in love with a plastic bag she mistakes for a jelly-boy? Jelly-Boy is different. He is big and strong. And not as wobbly as the other Jelly-Boys. By the… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: The Mailbox Tree
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Fall 2024

The Mailbox Tree

With sea-levels rising, and the land deforested, over-mined, and affected by bushfires and drought—Tasmania is increasingly marooned, its people abandoned. Nyx's father wants them to leave… Read More →

  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

Bear's Lost Glasses

Bear can't find his glasses. He must have left them at Giraffe's house. On the way over, Bear sees all kinds of animals he didn't notice last time: an elephant, a crocodile, a flamingo, a… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

Congressman John Lewis: A Man on a Mission to Seek Justice for All

From the Series Beginner Biography (LOOK! Books ™)

John Lewis was a Black American civil rights activist and one of the original Big Six leaders of the nonviolent movement along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He said his hero was Rosa… Read More →

  • Lexile: 890
  • ATOS: 5.0
  • Dewey: 328.73092
  • Copyright: 2025
Fall 2024

Ellen Ochoa: Breaking Barriers in Space

From the Series Beginner Biography (LOOK! Books ™)

Ellen Ochoa was selected by NASA in 1990 to join its astronaut program, and she became the first Hispanic female astronaut when she completed her training in 1991. Two years later, she flew… Read More →

  • Lexile: 760
  • ATOS: 4.2
  • Dewey: 629.450092
  • Copyright: 2025
Fall 2024

Helen Keller: Inspiring Opportunity for All

From the Series Beginner Biography (LOOK! Books ™)

Helen Keller was an American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Even though she could not see or hear like most people, she finished college and became a powerful writer and speaker Read More →

  • Lexile: 790
  • ATOS: 4.3
  • Dewey: 362.4/1092
  • Copyright: 2025
Fall 2024

Jackie Robinson: Baseball's Second Base Hero

From the Series Beginner Biography (LOOK! Books ™)

Jackie Robinson broke barriers as the first African American to play baseball in the modern major leagues. Today there are many great Black players in the MLB, but this pioneering moment in… Read More →

  • Lexile: 830
  • ATOS: 4.5
  • Dewey: 796.357092
  • Copyright: 2025
Fall 2024

Jim Thorpe: World's Greatest Athlete

From the Series Beginner Biography (LOOK! Books ™)

Jim Thorpe, an Oklahoma-born Native American, played pro baseball in New York, Cincinnati, and Boston, but he was an even better football player. In the 1912 Olympic Games, he won gold medals Read More →

  • Lexile: 970
  • ATOS: 5.2
  • Dewey: 796/.092
  • Copyright: 2025
Fall 2024

Ketanji Brown Jackson: From "Most Likely to Succeed" to the Supreme Court

From the Series Beginner Biography (LOOK! Books ™)

Born in Washington, DC, in 1970, and raised in Miami, Florida, Ketanji Brown Jackson developed an interest in law at an early age. While in grade school, she sat with her father and watched… Read More →

  • Lexile: 840
  • ATOS: 4.9
  • Dewey: 347.732634
  • Copyright: 2025