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Staff Picks - Kids & Teens October 2025 |
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Creepy Crayon! by Aaron Reynolds Jasper Rabbit has a problem, he is NOT doing well in school. His spelling tests? Disasters. His math quizzes? Frightening to behold. But one day, he finds a crayon lying in the gutter. Purple. Pointy. Perfect. Somehow…it looked happy to see him. And it wants to help. --Recommended by Aubrey.
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Gone Wolf by Amber McBride"In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and what is beyond her small-small room." --Recommended by AR.
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Hatchet Girls by Diana Rodriguez Wallach Lizzie Borden took an axe... She gave her mother.... you know the rhyme, right? To celebrate TeenTober, I chose Hatchet Girls by Diana Rodriguez Wallach. If you love historical events woven into a modern tale, this book is for you! The connection to the infamous Lizzie Borden murders is very interesting and adds an element of spookiness to an already thrilling and chilling YA novel. This is a "who dunnit?" mystery filled with twists and turns that will leave you guessing what will happen next. --Recommended by Jenny TJ.
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Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. --Recommended by Diana M.
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