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Will's race for home : a western /

Rhodes, Jewell Parker.


School Library Journal starred, November 2024. Booklist starred, January 2025. Pub Weekly, October 2024. Kirkus Starred, December 2024. Horn Book, March 2025. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), January 2025. During the land rush of 1889, African American Will and his father journey from Texas to Oklahoma, racing thousands of others to stake their claim.
Date Published:2025

Will's race for home : a western /

Rhodes, Jewell Parker,


During the land rush of 1889, African American Will and his father journey from Texas to Oklahoma, racing thousands of others to stake their claim.
Date Published:2025

Very bad at math

Larson, Hope.


"Ages 8-12"--Dust jacket flap. School Library Journal starred, January 2025. Publishers Weekly, October 2024. Booklist, January 2025. Horn Book, March 2025. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), January 2025. Kirkus Review, November 2024. "Verity 'Very' Nelson can do it all. She's student body president, debate club whiz, and first chair clarinetist. . . You could say she's pretty much the best at everything...Well, almost everything. Everything except math. And it's not like she doesn't try. Math just doesn't make sense in her brain. But it better start soon, or else she can kiss her presidency--and her campaign promises--goodbye. Soon she finds herself enrolled in a remedial math class, where, despite her best efforts, failure persists. All seems lost until a teacher helps her discover the truth: Verity has dyscalculia, a learning disability that causes her to mix up numbers. Armed with a new perspective, can Verity pass math, keep her presidentcy, and make good on her word to the student body she loves so much? Or will her presidency--and perfect reputation--all come crashing down?"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2025

"Ages 8-12"--Dust jacket flap. School Library Journal starred, January 2025. Publishers Weekly, October 2024. Booklist, January 2025. Horn Book, March 2025. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), January 2025. Kirkus Review, November 2024. "Verity 'Very' Nelson can do it all. She's student body president, debate club whiz, and first chair clarinetist. . . You could say she's pretty much the best at everything...Well, almost everything. Everything except math. And it's not like she doesn't try. Math just doesn't make sense in her brain. But it better start soon, or else she can kiss her presidency--and her campaign promises--goodbye. Soon she finds herself enrolled in a remedial math class, where, despite her best efforts, failure persists. All seems lost until a teacher helps her discover the truth: Verity has dyscalculia, a learning disability that causes her to mix up numbers. Armed with a new perspective, can Verity pass math, keep her presidentcy, and make good on her word to the student body she loves so much? Or will her presidency--and perfect reputation--all come crashing down?"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2025

Valor wings

Subity, Sam.


Iris has raised the dragon Galahad, and now she needs him and his fellow dragons to save her brother at Dunkirk from the advancing German troops, as well as a Belgian schoolboy Max she has befriended.
Date Published:2024

The trouble with heroes

Messner, Kate,


"Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Finn is about to fail seventh grade and has never made headlines ... until now. Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, he's in big trouble for knocking down some dead old lady's headstone. Turns out that grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber, and her daughter makes Finn an unusual offer : she'll drop all the charges if he agrees to climb all forty-six A dirondack High Peaks in a single summer. And there's just one more thing -- he has to bring along the dead woman's dog. In a wild three months of misadventures, mountain mud, and unexpected mentors, Finn begins to find his way on the trails. At the top of each peak, he can see for miles and slowly begins to understand more about himself and his dad. But the mountains don't care about any of that, and as the clock ticks down to September, they have more surprises in store. Finn's final summit challenge may be more than even a hero can face"--
Date Published:2025

"Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Finn is about to fail seventh grade and has never made headlines ... until now. Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, he's in big trouble for knocking down some dead old lady's headstone. Turns out that grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber, and her daughter makes Finn an unusual offer : she'll drop all the charges if he agrees to climb all forty-six A dirondack High Peaks in a single summer. And there's just one more thing -- he has to bring along the dead woman's dog. In a wild three months of misadventures, mountain mud, and unexpected mentors, Finn begins to find his way on the trails. At the top of each peak, he can see for miles and slowly begins to understand more about himself and his dad. But the mountains don't care about any of that, and as the clock ticks down to September, they have more surprises in store. Finn's final summit challenge may be more than even a hero can face"--

Date Published:2025

The tenth mistake of Hank Hooperman

Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-


School Library Journal starred, June 2024. Booklist starred, May 2024. Kirkus Starred, May 2024. Publishers Weekly Annex, May 2024. When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.
Date Published:2024

School Library Journal starred, June 2024. Booklist starred, May 2024. Kirkus Starred, May 2024. Publishers Weekly Annex, May 2024. When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.

Date Published:2024

The tenth mistake of Hank Hooperman

Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-


"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. School Library Journal starred, June 2024. Booklist starred, May 2024. Kirkus Starred, May 2024. Publishers Weekly Annex, May 2024. When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.
Date Published:2024

"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. School Library Journal starred, June 2024. Booklist starred, May 2024. Kirkus Starred, May 2024. Publishers Weekly Annex, May 2024. When eleven-year-old Hank's mother does not come home after a week, he and his toddler sister, Boo, seek out the stranger listed as their emergency contact, even though it means social workers, a new school, and having to answer questions about his mom that he has been trying to keep secret.

Date Published:2024

Secrets of the broken house

Souders, Taryn, 1977-


"Ages 8 and up"--Jacket flap. Booklist, October 2025. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), January 2026. Kirkus Review, November 2025. "When thirteen-year-old Tucker finds Miss Geraldine dead at the bottom of her stairs, he suspects foul play and works together with his friends to solve a small town murder"--OCLC.
Date Published:2026

Secrets of the broken house

Souders, Taryn, 1977-,


ALA Booklist. Kirkus Reviews. When thirteen-year-old Tucker finds Miss Geraldine dead at the bottom of her stairs, he suspects foul play and works together with his friends to solve a small town murder.
Date Published:2026

The rise of Neptune

Reintgen, Scott.


School Library Journal, October 2025. Booklist, October 2025. Horn Book, November 2025. Kirkus Review, September 2025. As Neptune's ships launch a surprise attack on Mars, Lunar and his Dread Knights must uncover the mysterious truths behind their divided enemy before those secrets lead to Mars' destruction.
Date Published:2025

Plain Jane and the Mermaid

Brosgol, Vera,


Publisher Annotation: Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so: her parents, the villagers, and her horrible cousin who kicks her out of her own house. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to the princely Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father. It's a good plan! Or it would've been, if he wasn't kidnapped by a mermaid.
Date Published:2024

On thin ice

Kim, Jessica, 1980-


"Ages 10 up"--Back cover. School Library Journal, January 2025. Publishers Weekly, November 2024. Booklist, January 2025. Kirkus Review, December 2024. Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old fraternal twins Phoebe and Dexter reluctantly partner up for Phoebe's figure skating competition when Dexter is cut from the hockey team.
Date Published:2025

The no-brainer's guide to decomposition

Cuevas, Adrianna.


"Ages 8-12"--Dust jacket. Booklist, September 2024. Horn Book, December 2024. Kirkus Review, August 2024. "Frani must fight to stop the undead from rising in her father's body-farm laboratory--that is, if she can embrace the true nature of her brain and its ADHD"--OCLC.
Date Published:2024

Medusa

Marsh, Katherine,


Publishers Weekly. School Library Journal. "A descendant of Medusa, Ava is sent to the Accademia del Forte in Venice after an altercation with a classmate, where she must learn to control her emotions, especially when she unearths a terrible secret that could change the world forever"--
Date Published:2025

The legend of the last library

Cole, Frank, 1977-


Kirkus Review, July 2024. "Juni Knox undertakes a dangerous quest to find a legendary lost treasure--the last library on the planet"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2024

The last dragon on Mars

Reintgen, Scott,


"Special first edition"--Dust jacket. Thirteen-year-old Lunar Jones was born on Mars, with every day a struggle, until he stumbles into a restricted military zone where he learns dragons are real and a new dragon has chosen him as a rider--a role he needs to embrace quickly because this dragon could save the Martian colony.
Date Published:2024

I.R.L

Goebel, Jenny,


"Not every kid would be thrilled to move to rural Alaska, but sixth grader Lucy is eager to leave her bullies behind and start over. However, it turns out that Lucy's new school does remote learning from October to April, when the roads become too icy to navigate safely. Being the new kid is hard enough--how is she going to make friends when she can't meet anyone in person? Luckily, the sixth grade class at White Pine Secondary School is tiny (just thirteen students) and they're all super nice and really welcoming. ... As the ice starts to thaw, Lucy grows increasingly excited about meeting her new friends in person. But when she enters the school's address on her phone's GPS, it leads her to a crumbling, clearly abandoned building with a rotted wood sign in front --a sign that reads White Pine Secondary School"--
Date Published:2025

"Not every kid would be thrilled to move to rural Alaska, but sixth grader Lucy is eager to leave her bullies behind and start over. However, it turns out that Lucy's new school does remote learning from October to April, when the roads become too icy to navigate safely. Being the new kid is hard enough--how is she going to make friends when she can't meet anyone in person? Luckily, the sixth grade class at White Pine Secondary School is tiny (just thirteen students) and they're all super nice and really welcoming. ... As the ice starts to thaw, Lucy grows increasingly excited about meeting her new friends in person. But when she enters the school's address on her phone's GPS, it leads her to a crumbling, clearly abandoned building with a rotted wood sign in front --a sign that reads White Pine Secondary School"--

Date Published:2025

The gods' revenge

Marsh, Katherine,


Kirkus Reviews. School Library Journal. After Layla is banished from school for asserting her beliefs, Ava and her friends travel to the underworld to rescue Layla and uncover the truth about their fiendish ancestors.
Date Published:2025

Dog trouble

Varner, Kristin.


School Library Journal, November 2024. Horn Book, January 2025. "Ash is a good kid at heart. But his grades are slipping, and when he gets caught vandalizing an old building, it's the last straw. It's decided: Ash will spend some time away from the city, at his dad's place on Ferncliff Island. It's bad enough that Ash has no friends on the island (just an annoying little stepsister), but his parents are also making him do community service! He volunteers at the local animal shelter, even though he's not really a dog person. . . . But as Ash bonds with the dogs--especially Cooper, a clever, fun-loving pointer that gives sloppy kisses--he starts to see that maybe his time on Ferncliff Island isn't a total loss"--Publisher.
Date Published:2024

School Library Journal, November 2024. Horn Book, January 2025. "Ash is a good kid at heart. But his grades are slipping, and when he gets caught vandalizing an old building, it's the last straw. It's decided: Ash will spend some time away from the city, at his dad's place on Ferncliff Island. It's bad enough that Ash has no friends on the island (just an annoying little stepsister), but his parents are also making him do community service! He volunteers at the local animal shelter, even though he's not really a dog person. . . . But as Ash bonds with the dogs--especially Cooper, a clever, fun-loving pointer that gives sloppy kisses--he starts to see that maybe his time on Ferncliff Island isn't a total loss"--Publisher.

Date Published:2024

Bye forever, I guess

Meadows, Jodi.


Eighth-grader Ingrid runs a popular blog anonymously and has online personal more popular than she is, but when a wrong-number text message offers her a chance at connection, Ingrid opens herself to the opportunity to make a real live friend.
Date Published:2024