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August 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's
A Place for Us

By James Ransome

Forts

By Katie Vanit and Kenard Pak

I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011

By Lauren Tarshis and Scott Dawson

Bluey: Bad Mood

By Penguin Young Readers Licences

Fish Don't Go to School

By Deb Pilutti

Tiny T. Rex and the First-Day Oopsies

By Jonathan Stutzman and Jay Fleck

A Hero's Guide to Summer Vacation

By Pablo Cartaya

Encounter at Owl Rock

By Rucker Moses

The Incorruptibles

By Lauren Magaziner

The Tower at the End of Time

By Amy Sparkes

Tyger

By SF Said and Dave McKean

The Boy, the Mountain, and the Serpent Who Ate the Moon

By Caris Avendano Cruz

July 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's
I, Rock

By Katie Slivensky & Steph Stilwell

Snoop

By Grodon Korman

Another

By Paul Tremblay

Toes, Teeth, and Tentacles

By Steve Jenkins & Robin Page

The Day the Books Disappeared

By Joanna Ho, Caroline Kusin Pritchard, & Dan Santat

I Got You

By Derrick Barnes & Shamar Knight-Justice

Evelyn Witch Gets a Pet

By Beth Ferry & Charles Santoso

Ablaze

By Jessica Lawson & Sarah Gonzales

Millie Fleur Saves the Night

By Christy Mandin

Norman and the Smell of Adventure

By Ryan T. Higgins

The League of Littles

By Casey Lyall & Sara Faber

National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of African Animals

By Catherine D. Hughes

June 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's
Wish in a Tree

By Lynda Mullaly Hunt & Nancy Carpenter

Pete the Cat's Mars Mission

By James Dean & Kimberly Dean

Becoming Boba

By Joanna Ho & Amber Ren

Karen's Ghost

By DK Yingst & Ann M. Martin

Chef's Secret

By Kelly Yang

When You Go To Dragon School

By Chelsea M. Campbell & Charlene Chua

This Book Is Dangerous!

By Ben Clanton

First Day Around the World

By Ibi Zoboi & Juanita Londoño

The Day the Crayons Made Friends

By Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers

We Are American, Too

By Kristen Mei Chase & Jieting Chen

Angel Draws A Dinosaur

By Pavonis Giron

The Wild Robot on the Island

By Peter Brown

May 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's
Cranky, Crabby Crow

By Corey R. Tabor

One Crazy Summer: The Graphic Novel

By Rita Williams-Garcia and Sharee Miller

Take a Breath, Big Red Monster!

By Ed Emberley

Pokémon Life Size

By DK

National Geographic Kids Almanac 2026

By National Geographic Kids

Entirely Emmie

By Terri Libenson

Bear Feels Sad

By Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman

Everything's Wrong!

By Jory John and Erin Kraan

Cousins!: A Big Family Story

By Laura Lavoie and Luisa Leal

The Queen Bees of Tybee County

By Kyle Casey Chu

Little Bird Laila

By Kelly Yang and Xindi Yan

Return to Sender

By Vera Brosgol

April 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's
Odder

By Katherine Applegate

Band Nerd

By Sarah Clawson Willis

Warm and Fuzzy

By Scott Rothman

The Great Dinosaur Sleepover

By Linda Bailey

Don't Trust Fish

By Neil Sharpson

Ancient Egypt

By DK

Ollie in Between

By Jess Callans

The Littlest Drop

By Sascha Alper

A Day at the Beach

By Gary D. Schmidt, Ron Koertge

Karen's Prize

By Shauna J. Grant, Ann M. Martin

YAY!

By Jessica Kulekjian

The Cartoonists Club

By Raina Telgemeier

March 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's
Wind Watchers

By Micha Archer

The Strongest Heart

By Saadia Faruqi

The Gorgon's Fury

By Brandon Mull

Will the Pigeon Graduate?

By Mo Willems

Resist

By Alan Gratz

One Wrong Step

By Jennifer A. Nelson

The Baby Who Stayed Awake Forever

By Sandra Salsbury

Home

By Matt de la Pena

Big Nate: Attack of the Cheez Funk Breath

By Lincoln Peirce

Cat Nap

By Steve Antony

Bird Bath

By Steve Antony

Lawrence & Sophia: Big

By Doreen Cronin

February 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's
Operation Sisterhood: Stealing the Show!

By Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Lucy Lancaster Has a Secret

By Willow Coven

Space for Everyone

By Seina Wedlick

Greatness

By Regis Bethencourt

Sharing the Dream

By Shelia Moses

How Sweet the Sound

By Kwame Alexander

And She Was Loved

By Andrea Davis Pinkney

A Pocket Full of Rocks

By Kristin Mahoney

Cinderella and the Beast

By Kim Bussing

What Fell from the Sky

By Adrianna Cuevas

The Song of Orphan's Garden

By Nicole M. Hewitt

Chickenpox

By Remy Lai

November 2024 Book Recommendations - Children's
Tumblebaby

By Adam Rex, Audrey Helen Weber

Lost in the Empire City

By Avi

Snow Is...

By Laura Gehl

First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip

By Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris

Pete the Cat and the Wright Brothers

By James Dean

Mr. Lemoncellos Fantabulous Finale

By Chris Grabenstein

Squad (the Tryout #2)

By Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao

Inkworld

By Cornelia Funke

Anang and the Ribbon Skirt

By Cameron Mukwa

The Bad Guys in One Last Thing

By Aaron Blabey

Hat for House

By Audrey Perrott, Druscilla Santiago

Alice in a Winter Wonderland

By Jan Brett

October 2024 Book Recommendations - Children's
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess

By Rick Riordan

All the Books

By Heyley Rocco

Tales of Ancient Egypt: Myths & Adventures from the Land of the Pyramids

By Hugo Cook

How to Sing a Song

By Kwame Alexander

Onyx & Beyond

By Amber McBride

Freedom Fire: Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek

By Kwame Mbalia

Deer Run Home

By Ann Clare Lezotte

Jonty Gentoo: The Adventures of a Penguin

By Julia Donaldson

The Bakery Dragon

By Devin Elle Kurtz

An Anthology of Fungi

By Lynne Boddy

The Hill: Inside the Secret World of the U.S. Capitol

By Kate Anderson Brower

The Bletchley Riddle

By Ruta Sepetys

September 2024 Book Recommendations - Children's
How Technology Works

By DK

Stealing Little Moon : the Legacy of American Indian Residential Schools

By Dan SaSuWeh Jones

The Verts: A Story of Introverts and Extroverts

By Ann Patchett, Robin Preiss Glasser

Grumpy Monkey Play All Day

By Suzanne Lang, Max Lang

Kristy and the Walking Disaster

By Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw

Snow Thief

By Alice Hemming, Nicola Slater

Scholastic Book of World Records 2025

By Scholastic

The Gingerbread House Jack's Family Ate

By Kelly DiPucchio, Nate Wragg

The Witching Wind

By Natalie Lloyd

Spooky, Scary Skeletons

By Andrew Gold, Polona Lovsin

This Land

By Ashley Fairbanks, Bridget George

Can You See What I See?

By Walter Wick

August 2025 Circulation Display

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Your Library, Your Story: How the Library Changed My Life

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