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Cover: Operation Pangolin: Saving the World's Only Scaled Mammal
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Operation Pangolin: Saving the World's Only Scaled Mammal

Meet the pangolin—the world’s only scaled mammal. Their scales serve as armor to fend off predators. Unfortunately, these scales can do nothing to protect them from the biggest threat to… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1030
  • Dewey: 599.3/1
  • Copyright: 2023
Cover: The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology
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The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology

Born in a small village in eighteenth-century France, Jeanne Villepreux wasn’t expected to transform marine science. Curious, creative, and clever, Jeanne ventured to Paris by foot as a… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1220
  • Dewey: 578.77092 [B]
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Where We Come From
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Where We Come From

"Outstanding in all ways, this title deserves a place in most collections and adds a wonderful opportunity for upper elementary students (and higher!) to unpack our complicated… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1000
  • Dewey: 811/.6
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Yuck, You Suck!: Poems about Animals That Sip, Slurp, Suck
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Yuck, You Suck!: Poems about Animals That Sip, Slurp, Suck

Warning: this book sucks! It bites, slurps, and sticks too. Dare to open these pages and you'll find ticks, mosquitos, stingrays, elephants, jellyfish, and the particularly sucky lamprey.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 650
  • Dewey: 590
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Gold
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Gold

From the Series The Fairy-Tale Color Collection

This wordless picture book plays with our assumptions about family. What do we think we see as we turn the pages and how is the ending not at all what we expected? This fractured retelling… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Wonderful Hair: The Beauty of Annie Malone
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Wonderful Hair: The Beauty of Annie Malone

Forgotten today, Annie Turnbo Malone was an influential Black business leader in the early 20th century. She turned her personally developed hair care products into a successful industry,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 870
  • Dewey: 759.13
  • Copyright: 2022

Unretouchable

“One of the most memorable debut graphic novels in recent years.”—IGN Olive is spending the summer before art school at a coveted internship, helping one of the fashion industry's elite… Read More →

  • Lexile: 540
  • Dewey: 741.5/973
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: A River's Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn
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A River's Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn

A mighty river. A long history. For thousands of years, the Elwha River flowed north through the Pacific Northwest, sharing its gifts with the animals, plants, and people along its banks.… Read More →

  • Lexile: 950
  • Dewey: 639.909797/99
  • Copyright: 2023

Big Bear and Little Fish

Friendship comes in all sizes. Bear loves being big! At the carnival, Bear wants to win a teddy bear as big as she is. Instead, she gets a fish. A very little fish. Bear is so very big and… Read More →

  • Lexile: 480
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: El secreto del plátano (The Secret of the Plátano)
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El secreto del plátano (The Secret of the Plátano)

Under the full moon, Abuela leads an enchanted dance, bows to the sky and the night winds, and helps her curious grandson discover the rhythm of his heartbeat while listening to the great… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Funeral Girl
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Funeral Girl

Sixteen-year-old Georgia Richter feels conflicted about the funeral home her parents run—especially because she has the ability to summon ghosts. With one touch of any body that passes… Read More →

  • Lexile: 720
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

Hear Me

A year after being diagnosed with hearing loss, twelve-year-old Rayne is doing her best to live a “normal” life and act like nothing has changed. But her hearing keeps failing her. Even with Read More →

  • Lexile: 660
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: On a Gold-Blooming Day: Finding Fall Treasures
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On a Gold-Blooming Day: Finding Fall Treasures

On a gold-blooming, bee-zooming, sun-dazzling day . . . / Snakes glide. / Spiders hide. / Crickets chirp. / Butterflies slurp. From Buffy Silverman, author of On a Snow-Melting Day, comes an… Read More →

  • Lexile: 150
  • Dewey: 508.2
  • Copyright: 2023
Cover: Secrets of the Lost City: A Scientific Adventure in the Honduran Rain Forest
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Secrets of the Lost City: A Scientific Adventure in the Honduran Rain Forest

From the Series Sandra Markle's Science Discoveries

Join a real-life adventure—a scientific expedition to a remote area of the Honduran rainforest, suspected to be the ruins of the Lost City of the Monkey God. In the dense rain forest of… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1160
  • Dewey: 972.85
  • Copyright: 2023
Cover: The Prince of Steel Pier
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The Prince of Steel Pier

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award A Sydney Taylor Notable Book Tablet Magazine's Best Jewish Kids Books of the Year A young teen falls in with the mob, and learns a lesson about what… Read More →

  • Lexile: 680
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2022

A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return: Expanded Edition

This expanded edition of A Game for Swallows features a new, illustrated afterword, as Abirached reflects on the meaning of her memoir's title, the graffiti that inspired it, and the future… Read More →

  • Lexile: 610
  • Dewey: 741.5/95692
  • Copyright: 2022

Be a Bridge

In this upbeat picture book, acclaimed authors Irene Latham and Charles Waters bring key themes from their earlier collaborations (Can I Touch Your Hair? and Dictionary for a Better World) to Read More →

  • Lexile: 610
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Lionel Poops
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Lionel Poops

From the Series Lionel

A positive and practical board book that encourages potty training with humor and affirmation. Featuring a mischievous little lion called Lionel. In this pithy board book series, the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 210
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

Deb Haaland: First Native American Cabinet Secretary

From the Series Gateway Biographies

In 2021, Deb Haaland made history as the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history. As Secretary of the Interior, Haaland championed environmental protections and helped restore… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1030
  • ATOS: 6.9
  • Dewey: 328.73/092 [B]
  • Copyright: 2023

The Stars Will Be My Nightlight: A Sukkot Story

"Can we sleep in the sukkah?" the son asks his mom. She worries that it will be cold and dark, and that it might rain. “But the stars will be my nightlight,” the boy says, to which the mom smiles. Read More →

  • Lexile: 510
  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2022

Caution: Turtles and Frogs Ahead!

From the Series Wildlife Rescue

Reptiles and amphibians need special help crossing roads. This book focuses on different approaches, from tiny turtle tunnels under railroad tracks in Japan, to salamander tunnels and… Read More →

  • Lexile: 600
  • Dewey: 333.95
  • Copyright: 2023

Safe Travels for Squirrels

From the Series Wildlife Rescue

Forest villages in France, England, the U.S. and Australia feature rope bridges and buckets of acorns for squirrels. Readers will meet some of the rescuers helping these little red squirrels survive. Read More →

  • Lexile: 570
  • Dewey: 333.95
  • Copyright: 2023
Cover: Amazona
Starred Review & Award Count 1 4

Amazona

This socially conscious thriller from graphic novelist Canizales examines the injustices of his home country in a stark, distinctive style. Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has… Read More →

  • Lexile: 430
  • Dewey: 741.5/9861
  • Copyright: 2022
Cover: Attention Hijacked: Using Mindfulness to Reclaim Your Brain from Tech
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Attention Hijacked: Using Mindfulness to Reclaim Your Brain from Tech

Technology surrounds us every day: a phone alarm wakes us up, an electronic calendar tracks assignment deadlines, GPS directs us to the new dentist’s office, social media keeps us connected… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1020
  • Dewey: 153.7/33
  • Copyright: 2022