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April 2025 Book Recommendations - Children's
Karen's Prize

By Shauna J. Grant, Ann M. Martin

YAY!

By Jessica Kulekjian

The Cartoonists Club

By Raina Telgemeier

A Day at the Beach

By Gary D. Schmidt, Ron Koertge

The Littlest Drop

By Sascha Alper

Ollie in Between

By Jess Callans

Ancient Egypt

By DK

Don't Trust Fish

By Neil Sharpson

The Great Dinosaur Sleepover

By Linda Bailey

Warm and Fuzzy

By Scott Rothman

Band Nerd

By Sarah Clawson Willis

Odder

By Katherine Applegate

November 2024 Book Recommendations - Children's
Alice in a Winter Wonderland

By Jan Brett

Hat for House

By Audrey Perrott, Druscilla Santiago

The Bad Guys in One Last Thing

By Aaron Blabey

Anang and the Ribbon Skirt

By Cameron Mukwa

Inkworld

By Cornelia Funke

Squad (the Tryout #2)

By Christina Soontornvat, Joanna Cacao

Mr. Lemoncellos Fantabulous Finale

By Chris Grabenstein

Pete the Cat and the Wright Brothers

By James Dean

First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip

By Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris

Snow Is...

By Laura Gehl

Lost in the Empire City

By Avi

Tumblebaby

By Adam Rex, Audrey Helen Weber

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
Can You See What I See?

By Walter Wick

This Land

By Ashley Fairbanks, Bridget George

Spooky, Scary Skeletons

By Andrew Gold, Polona Lovsin

The Witching Wind

By Natalie Lloyd

The Gingerbread House Jack's Family Ate

By Kelly DiPucchio, Nate Wragg

Scholastic Book of World Records 2025

By Scholastic

Snow Thief

By Alice Hemming, Nicola Slater

Kristy and the Walking Disaster

By Ann M. Martin, Ellen T. Crenshaw

Grumpy Monkey Play All Day

By Suzanne Lang, Max Lang

The Verts: A Story of Introverts and Extroverts

By Ann Patchett, Robin Preiss Glasser

Stealing Little Moon : the Legacy of American Indian Residential Schools

By Dan SaSuWeh Jones

How Technology Works

By DK

August 2024 Book Recommendations - Children's
We Are Definitely Human

By X. Fang

The Ofrenda That We Built

By Jolene Gutierrez

Read at Your Own Risk

By Remy Lai

Pizza for Birds

By Bob Shea

The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Nature Walk: A Search-And-Find Book

By Eric Carle

Willow the White House Cat

By Jill Biden

Cat on the Run in Cucumber Madness!

By Aaron Blabey

I Am Jesse Owens

By Brad Meltzer

A Mischief of Mice

By Christine Matheson

The Everybody Experiment

By Lisa Ramée

Not Nothing

By Gayle Forman

I'm Sorry You Got Mad

By Kyle Lukoff

July 2024 Book Recommendations - Children's
Pizza Face

By Rex Ogle Dave Valeza

Faker

By Gordon Korman

Pasta Pasta Lotsa Pasta

By Aimee Lucido Mavisu Demirag

Quacken

By Justin Colón

Just What to Do

By Kyle Lukoff

Belly Song

By Mother Moon Leah Giles

Old Willis Place Graphic Novel

By Mary Downing Hahn Meredith Laxton Scott Peterson Sienna Haralson

Wolfgang in the Meadow

By Lenny Wen

Little Ghost Makes a Friend

By Maggie Edkins Willis

Prunella

By Beth Ferry

I Got the Spooky Spirit

By Connie Schofield-Morrison Frank Morrison

Pokémon Book of Evolutions

By DK

June 2024 Book Recommendations - Children's
Cesaria Feels the Beat

By Denise Rosario Adusei Priscila Soares

Spindle of Fate

By Aimee Lim

Beach Hair

By Ashley Woodfolk Nina Mata

Are You Small?

By Mo Willems

Pete the Cat Screams for Ice Cream!

By James Dean Kimberly Dean

Roswell Johnson Saves the World!

By Chris Colfer

Legendary Mo Seto

By A. Y. Chan

Duck Duck Taco Truck

By Laura Lavoie Teresa Martinez

Bubble Gum Bison Needs a Bath

By Scott Rothman Pete Oswald

Not-A-Box City

By Antoinette Portis

Girl Who Kept the Castle

By Ryan Graudin

Tate's Wild Rescue

By Jenny Turnbull Izzy Burton

My Library, My Story.

CCJPL’s new Marketing & PR Assistant, Bec, shares her story on how she found her place among the stacks.

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Teens Can Craft, Create, & Color Our World This Summer!

Learn how Teens can participate in our Summer Reading Challenge and earn prizes!

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