In Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone, Newbery Medalist Tae Keller explores the difficult choice between doing the right thing and doing what feels good, even when it’s wrong.
With action that moves faster than a ship under full sail, The Last Mapmaker is a Thai-inspired fantasy brimming with adventure, surprises and betrayal.
Ella Durand is sure to join the likes of Percy Jackson, Morrigan Crow and Aru Shah in the middle grade fantasy hall of fame.
On the World War II homefront, Danny tries to solve his friend’s disappearance while grappling with questions of fear, courage and heroism.
A true word nerd finds a group of kindred spirits in Jennifer Ziegler’s Worser, a middle grade novel anchored by a singularly memorable protagonist.
Filled with over-the-top action and slapstick humor, Eric Gapstur’s Sort of Super is a fantastic graphic novel for younger middle grade readers.
Propelled by hilarious stream-of-consciousness narration, Justin A. Reynolds’ It’s the End of the World and I’m in My Bathing Suit offers a fun tale of friends who team up to save the world—or at least the neighborhood.
Karina Yan Glaser infuses A Duet for Home with sweetness and optimism while acknowledging the complexities of her characters’ lives.
In Golden Girl, an absorbing novel in verse anchored in authentic, emotional relationships, Aafiyah can’t stop taking things that don’t belong to her.
A quartet of sea creatures may hold the key to Sophia’s father’s disappearance in The Aquanaut, a humorous, heartwarming graphic novel.
Fantasy and graphic novel fans alike will love the gentle humor and spirit of adventure in The Legend of Brightblade, Ethan M. Aldridge’s standalone tale.
Newbery Medalist Kelly Barnhill’s warm and lovely fairy tale, The Ogress and the Orphans, is a striking allegory that pointedly holds a mirror up to societal dysfunction.
Mimi mounts a campaign against single-use plastic bags on her new island home in Florida in Elaine Dimopoulos’ Turn the Tide, a stirring novel in verse.
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