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Staff Picks - Kids & Teens April 2026 |
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Tumble by Adriana Hernández BergstromIn this book with minimal words, a tumbleweed goes on a journey through the desert. --Recommended by AR.
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The illustrations, full of emotion, movement & playfulness, add to this colorful & funny story about hats & animals. --Recommended by Sara A.
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Kidan Adane knows three things to be true: she must kill all evil, vampires are evil, and a vampire kidnapped her sister, June. Kidan will stop at nothing to find her sister, including becoming a different kind of monster. To find her sister, Kidan must infiltrate the elite Uxlay University, where students study to inherit their family fortune and select vampire companions, and as it turns out, Kidan is an heir to an ancient bloodline. But she doesn't care about any of that, she just wants June back. Lies, murder, and betrayal are the only path Kidan has ever known, and that path may be the only way she can save her sister. --Recommended by Chantalle U. |
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Ida in the Middle by Nora Lester MuradEvery time violence erupts in the Middle East, Ida knows what's coming next. Some of her classmates treat her like it's all her fault -- just for being Palestinian! In eighth grade, Ida is forced to move to a different school. But people still treat her like she'll never fit in. Ida wishes she could disappear. One day, dreading a final class project, Ida hunts for food. She discovers a jar of olives that came from a beloved aunt in her family's village near Jerusalem. Ida eats one and finds herself there -- as if her parents had never left Palestine! Things are different in this other reality -- harder in many ways, but also strangely familiar and comforting. Now she has to make some tough choices. Which Ida would she rather be? How can she find her place? Ida's dilemma becomes more frightening as the day approaches when Israeli bulldozers are coming to demolish another home in her family's village. --Recommended by koh.
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