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CONTENTS
Babies and Toddlers ………………………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 3
Picture Books ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 4-5
Beginning and Early Readers ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5-7
Upper Elementary Readers .…………………………………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………. 7-9
Youth Graphic Novels …………………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 9-10
Teen Readers …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 11-13
Teen Graphic Novels ………………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 14-16
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Babies and Toddlers The Animal Pokey (2019) Author: Janice Behrens Age: 0-3 Series: Rookie Toddler Type: Board Book Description: Toddlers and parents can dance along with their favorite animals with this fun take on "The Hokey Pokey".
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (1967) Author: Bill Martin Jr. Age: 0-3 Type: Board Book Description: Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a mother looking at them.
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Ears, Eyes, Nose (2013) Author: Rebecca Bondor Age: 0-3 Series: Rookie Toddler Type: Board Book Description: Introduces different parts of the human body.
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Picture Books Barkus (2017) Author: Patricia MacLachlan Age: 3-6 Series: Barkus, 1 Type: Picture Book Description: Barkus is a large and very smart dog who comes to live with seven-year-old Nicky when Nicky's Uncle Everton goes traveling--and soon he is a family and school favorite.
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Digger, Dozer, Dumper (2013) Author: Hope Vestergaard Age: 3-6 Type: Picture Book, Poetry Description: A treasury of sixteen poems highlights the jobs and personalities of an assortment of vehicles from an ambulance to a snowplow.
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How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read? (2018) Author: Jane Yolen Age: 3-6 Series: How Do Dinosaurs… ? Type: Picture Book Description: Told in rhyming text young dinosaurs learn to read, but only after many mishaps, like chewing their books and throwing them at the cat--but eventually they learn to respect their books, and treat them properly.
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I Need a Hug (2015) Author: Aaron Blabey Age: 3-6 Type: Picture Book Description: A porcupine is having difficulty getting his friends to agree to a hug.
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Beginning and Early Readers The Bad Buys in the Baddest Day Ever (2019) Author: Aaron Blabey Age: 7-10 Series: Bad Guys, 10 Type: Early Reader Grade Level: 2-4 Description: All hail Crown Prince Marmalade! SURRENDER to his evil magnificence! KNEEL before his butt handed glory! Or… like… DONT! The BAD GUYS and even BADDER GIRLS might have been knocked down, but does that mean they will stay down? NO WAY, CHICOS! Whip out your war cry and pull on your party pants. It’s the ULTIMATE BATTLE between BAD and BAAAAAAD!
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Bo and the Dragon-Pup (2020) Author: Rebecca Elliott Age: 5-8 Series: Unicorn Diaries, 2 Type: Early Reader Grade Level: K-2 Description: Bo Tinseltail lives in Sparklegrove Forest, where lots of other magical creatures live. Bo and the other unicorns learn about dragons at school, but they have never seen them before. That is, until now! Will Bo and the other unicorns meet a scary creature there? Or will they make a brand-new friend?
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The Haunted House Next Door (2017) Author: Andres Miedoso Age: 6-10 Series: Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol, 1 Type: Early Reader Grade Level: 2-4 Description: Fearless 8-year-old Desmond Cole runs his own ghost-hunting service to investigate monsters, spirits and other otherworldly mischief makers and is assisted by his sidekick best friend, Andres, who struggles with chronic fears.
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Back to Hogwarts (with minifigure) (2019) Author: Ameet Studio Age: 6-8 Series: LEGO Harry Potter Type: Activity Book Description: This activity book is packed with comics, puzzles, mazes, games, and a whole lot more. Guide Harry Potter and Ron Weasley through the moving staircases, untangle the spells to reveal Hermione's Patronus, help Neville match pairs of plants in Herbology class, and discover more of what Hogwarts(TM) has to offer!
Not in Novelist Faster Than Lightning! (With minifigure) (2018) Author: Ameet Studio Age: 6-8 Series: LEGO DC Super Heroes Type: Activity Book Description: Join Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash and more as they take on the Joker and the rest of the LEGO DC super-villains in this activity book!
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Game Time! (With minifigure) (2020) Author: Ameet Studio Age: 6-8 Series: LEGO Ninjago Type: Activity Book Description: The ninja are facing the ultimate challenge. A villain from their past is back and more evil than ever. Do the ninja have the strength to endure?
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Upper Elementary Readers National Geographic Kids Almanac 2021 (2020) Author: National Geographic Age: 8-12 Series: National Geographic Almanacs Type: J Non-Fiction Grade Level: 3-7 Description: Kids can have fun keeping up with our rapidly changing planet with the world's best-selling almanac for kids, packed with incredible photos, tons of fun facts, crafts, activities, and fascinating features about animals, science, nature, technology, conservation, and more.
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Nature Attacks? (2015) Author: Lauren Tarshis Age: 7-10 Series: I Survived True Stories Type: J Non-Fiction Grade Level: 2-5 Description: From 14-year-old Joseph Dunn who was the lone survivor of the Shark Attacks of 1916, to 9-year-old Mike Kramer who, with the help of his quick-thinking parents, survived the Peshtigo fire of 1871, to the 13-year-old girl who survived a terrifying attack by a box jellyfish, this is a collection of unforgettable narrative non-fiction stories of unimaginable destruction -- and, against all odds, survival.
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Artemis Fowl (2020) Author: Eoin Colfer Age: 10-14 Series: Artemis Fowl, 1 Type: J Fiction Grade Level: 5-8 Description: When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
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Grenade (2018) Author: Alan Gratz Age: 10-15 Type: J Fiction Grade Level: 5-12 Description: On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will change his life forever.
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Resistance (2018) Author: Jennifer A. Nielsen Age: 10-15 Type: J Fiction Grade Level: 5-9 Description: After a smuggling mission to an isolated Jewish ghetto goes wrong and her colleagues are arrested, Chaya Lindner, a Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Poland, decides to go to Warsaw, where an uprising is in the works.
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The Strangers (2019) Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix Age: 8-13 Series: Greystone Secrets, 1 Type: J Fiction Grade Level: 4-8 Description: Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone, ages twelve, ten, and eight, investigate why their mother went missing and uncover their ties to an alternate world.
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The Wizards of Once (2017) Author: Cressida Cowell Age: 9-13 Series: Wizards of Once, 1 Type: J Fiction Grade Level: 4-7 Description: Young wizard prince Xar, who has no magic, and warrior princess Wish, an outcast, team up on an adventure that brings them to witches long believed to be extinct.
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Youth Graphic Novels Dog Man and Cat Kid (2017) Author: Dav Pilkey Age: 6-10 Series: Dog Man, 4 Type: J Graphic Grade Level: 2-5 Description: The heroic hound with a real nose for justice now has a furry feline sidekick, and together they have a mystery to sniff out! When a new kitty sitter arrives and a glamorous movie starlet goes missing, it's up to Dog Man and Cat Kid to save the day! Will these heroes stay hot on the trail, or will Petey, the World's Most Evil Cat, send them barking up the wrong tree?
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New Kid (2019) Author: Jerry Craft Age: 9-14 Type: J Graphic Grade Level: 4-8 Description: After his parents send him to a prestigious private school known for its academics, Jordan Banks finds himself torn between two worlds. Awards: 2020 Newbery Medal, 2020 Coretta Scott King Book Award-Author
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Phoebe and Her Unicorn (2014) Author: Dana Simpson Age: 7-12 Series: Phoebe and Her Unicorn, 1 Type: J Graphic Grade Level: 2-7 Description: When Phoebe meets a unicorn named Marigold who grants her one wish, Phoebe wishes Marigold would become her best friend, and the two set off on adventures big and small.
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W.I.T.C.H.: The Graphic Novel, Part VI. Ragorlang, Vol. 1 (2019) Author: Disney Age: 8+ Series: W.I.T.C.H Type: Graphic Novel Grade Level: 3-7 Description: Here There Be Monsters! Eric has started at a new school, but something seems off. The students are tired and listless, almost as if something is sapping their strength. Could this have anything to do with the folktale Hay Lin recently heard about, the monster that drains the energies of its victims?
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Teen Readers A Lite Too Bright (2018) Author: Samuel Miller Age: 13-17 Type: Teen Fiction Grade Level: 9-12 Description: Arthur Louis Pullman the Third is on the verge of a breakdown. He’s been stripped of his college scholarship, is losing his grip on reality, and has been sent away to live with his aunt and uncle.
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All the Bright Places (2015) Author: Jennifer Niven Age: 14-18 Type: Teen Fiction Grade Level: 9-12 Description: Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another.
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The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (2017) Author: Philip Pullman Age: 14-18 Series: Book of Dust, 1 Type: Teen Fiction Grade Level: 9-12 Description: When Malcolm finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust, he finds himself embroiled in a tale of intrigue featuring enforcement agents from the Magisterium, a woman with an evil monkey daemon, and a baby named Lyra.
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Broken Things (2018) Author: Lauren Oliver Age: 14-18 Type: Teen Fiction Grade Level: 10-12 Description: Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend after becoming obsessed and delusional over a novel, but on the anniversary of their friend's death a discovery pulls them back together to find out what actually happened that night.
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Dry (2018) Author: Neal Shusterman Age: 12-17 Type: Teen Fiction Grade Level: 7-12 Description: The drought has been going on for a while now. Everyone's lives have become an endless list of don'ts: don't water the lawn, don't fill up your pool, don't take long showers. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. When her parents don't return and her life-and the life of her brother-is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she's going to survive.
Click here for additional information and book reviews. Frogkisser! (2017) Author: Garth Nix Age: 12-15 Type: Teen Fiction Grade Level: 6-10 Description: Princess Anya has a big problem: Duke Rikard, her step-stepfather is an evil wizard who wants to rule the kingdom and has a habit of changing people into frogs, and her older sister Morven, the heir, is a wimp--so with the help of the librarian Gotfried (who turns into an owl when he is upset), and the Royal Dogs, she must find a way to defeat Rikard, save her sister, and maybe even turn Prince Denholm back into a human being.
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Geekerella: A Fangirl Fairytale (2017) Author: Ashley Poston Age: 14-18 Series: Once Upon a Con, 1 Type: Teen Fiction Grade Level: 8-12 Description: A devoted fan of a classic sci-fi television series risks the ire of her evil stepsisters by entering a contest to win an invitation to a ball where she would meet her favorite actor, a teen star who would prove he is more than just a dumb heartthrob.
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The Hate U Give (2017) Author: Angie Thomas Age: 14-18 Type: Teen Fiction Grade Level: 9-12 Description: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died. Awards: 2018 Coretta Scott King Book Award-Author, 2018 Michael L. Printz Honor Award
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Shadow of the Fox (2018) Author: Julie Kagawa Age: 13-18 Type: Teen Fiction Grade Level: 8-12 Description: A debut entry in a lush fantasy series inspired by Japanese mythology follows the adventures of a secret shapeshifter who escapes an attack on her temple with a piece of an ancient scroll before meeting a samurai who would kill her for it.
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Teen Graphic Novels Banned Book Club (2020) Author: Kim Hyun Sook Age: 14-18 Type: Teen Graphic Grade Level: 9-12 Description: The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship.
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Batman: Nightwalker (2019) Author: Marie Lu Age: 13-17 Type: Teen Graphic Grade Level: 9-12 Description: A ruthless new gang of criminals known only as Nightwalkers is terrorizing Gotham, and the city's elite are being taken out one by one. On the way home from his 18th birthday party, newly minted billionaire Bruce Wayne makes an impulsive choice that puts him in their crosshairs and lands him in Arkham Asylym, the once-infamous mental hospital. There, he meets Madeleine Wallace, a brilliant killer...and Bruce's only hope. Madeleine is the mystery Bruce must unravel, but is he convincing her to divulge her secrets, or is he
feeding her the information she needs to bring Gotham City to its knees? Click here for additional information and book reviews.
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Beastars Volume 1 (2019) Author: Paru Itagaki Age: 16+ Series: Beastars, 1 Type: Teen Graphic Grade Level: 10-12 Description: At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, it’s personal relationships that maintain the fragile peace. Who among them is a Beastar an academic and social role model destined to become a leader in a society naturally rife with mistrust?
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Goldie Vance Volume 1 (2016) Author: Hope Larson Age: 13-17 Series: Goldie Vance, 1 Type: Teen Graphic Grade Level: 7-11 Description: When in-house detective Charlie comes up against a case he can't crack, he calls upon sixteen-year-old Goldie, who uses her skills, smarts, and connections to solve the case.
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Komi Can’t Communicate Volume 1 (2019) Author: Tomohito Oda Age: 13-17 Series: Komi Can’t Communicate, 1 Type: Teen Graphic Grade Level: 9-10 Description: The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation. Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi’s greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve! With the whole student body keeping their distance and Komi unable to utter a single word, friendship might be forever beyond her reach. Not in Novelist
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The Oracle Code (2020) Author: Marieke Nijkamp Age: 12-17 Type: Teen Graphic Grade Level: 7-11 Description: After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed, Barbara Gordon enters the Arkham Center for Independence, where Gotham's teens undergo physical and mental rehabilitation. Now using a wheelchair, Barbara must adapt to a new normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is dangerously amiss.
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Stranger Things: Zombie Boys (2020) Author: Greg Pak Age: 13-18 Series: Stranger Things Type: Teen Graphic Description: School is back in session in the normally quiet town of Hawkins, Indiana. Mike, Lucas, Dustin, and Will are still grappling with the traumatic encounters with the Demogorgon and the Upside Down in season one of the hit Netflix series. As tensions rise and fractures begin to form in the group, a new kid shows up to AV club with a Betamax Camcorder and an idea. The new Spielberg-wannabe friend, Joey Kim, wants to make a horror movie about a local legend, but when he sees Will's drawings, he discovers that his new friends are local legends.
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