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Spring 2025

Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist

Everyone loves stories of cryptids. These mysterious creatures have been hiding—some of them for centuries—from the seeking eyes and minds of top scientists, cryptozoologists, and everyday… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1160
  • ATOS: 8.0
  • Dewey: 001.944
  • Copyright: 2006
Spring 2025

Camilla, Cartographer

From the Series Camilla the Cartographer

A 2019 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Nominee Camilla loves maps and has always wondered what it would be like to explore and discover a new path for the first time. When a snowstorm covers the… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2019
Spring 2025

GIRL: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You

Chicago Public Library's 2017 Best of the Best Books List for Teen Nonfiction! Welcoming and inclusive of all self-identified girls, GIRL: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You is an… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2017
Spring 2025

Not Every Princess

Who do you want to be: a princess? Pirate? Teacher or scientist? And where would you like to play: a castle? Pirate ship? Library or spacelab? It's your decision to make, so think away. Your Read More →

  • Copyright: 2014
Spring 2025

Papa, Daddy, and Riley

Riley is Papa's princess and Daddy's dragon. She loves her two fathers! When Riley's classmate asks her which dad is her real one, Riley is confused. She doesn't want to have to pick one or… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2020
Spring 2025

Remembering Ethan

Ethan. Ethan. Ethan. Sarah misses her adored big brother with all her heart. She wants to celebrate all the fun times she and her parents spent with him. But ever since Ethan died, Mommy and Read More →

  • Copyright: 2020
Spring 2025

They Only See the Outside

This collection of insightful and endearing poems explores what kids experience on the inside that cannot be seen from the outside. From topics that readers experience every day, like the… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2021
Spring 2025

This Day in June

This Stonewall Book Award winner is an excellent tool for teaching respect, acceptance, and understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. This day in June . . . Parade… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2014
Spring 2025

Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You

This groundbreaking, all-inclusive, uncensored, must-have guide is for teens who identify as transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, gender fluid, or are questioning their gender… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2019
Fall 2024

The Doll Test: Choosing Equality

Four dolls. Two psychologists. One landmark court case. During the first half of the twentieth century, schoolchildren in many parts of the United States were segregated—Black children and… Read More →

  • Dewey: 370.15
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

Snake and Lizard

From the Series Snake and Lizard

Snake is elegant and calm, and a little self-centered; Lizard is exuberant and irrepressible. With its wisdom, acceptance and good humor, Snake and Lizard captures the essence of friendship.… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2018
Fall 2024

A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds

"Should you encounter any of the plants in this book, do not treat them lightly. They can kill you. Or cause you unbearable agony. Or land you in jail. Consider yourself warned." Explore the… Read More →

  • Dewey: 581.6/59
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

A Lot of Silly: A Book of Rhymes and Nonsense

Joy Cowley knows what makes children laugh. In this book full of absurd poems and very short, silly stories, a man takes his tadpoles for a walk in his hat, a cat is surprised by its… Read More →

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

Giant Rays of Hope: Protecting Manta Rays to Safeguard the Sea

Off the coast of Perú, gentle giants swim beneath the waves. Thanks to the work of Kerstin Forsberg, giant manta rays have become a symbol of hope for ocean conservation in the region. Mantas Read More →

  • Dewey: 597.3/5
  • Copyright: 2025
Fall 2024

I Fuel: How Energy Powers Our Busy World

We're mighty fuel—ready to power the world! From lightbulbs and stoves to cars and planes, many things around us need fuel to work. Where does that fuel come from? Follow oil on its journey… Read More →

  • Dewey: 665.5
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

The Mistakes That Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets

Scoring a goal against your own team. Copying a classmate's schoolwork. Accepting a dare to jump down the stairs . . . and getting hurt. This engrossing poetry anthology explores making… Read More →

  • Dewey: 811/.608
  • Copyright: 2024
Fall 2024

Elki Is Not My Dog

Elki does not have a home—she is a stray dog who finds kindness in the company of a little group of children. They play together during the day, but Elki must stay alone outside every night… Read More →

  • Dewey: [E]
  • Copyright: 2024
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

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
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

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
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

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