Books for Kids and Tweens
July 2025

Recent Releases
Their Just Desserts
by Tracy Badua and Alechia Dow

Since they solved their first mystery (in The Cookie Crumbles), baker Laila and journalist Lucy have been too busy to spend much time together. When these middle school detectives are called on to go undercover at a kids' baking show, it tests both their skills and their friendship. (Ages 10-13.)
 
Graciela in the Abyss
by Meg Medina; illustrated by Anna and Elena Balbusso 

One hundred years after falling to her death in the ocean, Graciela awakens as a sea spirit. Meanwhile, living boy Jorge accidentally delivers a ghost-killing harpoon to a vengeful villain. The quest to set things right on land and sea brings Graciela and Jorge together in this exciting and heartfelt fantasy. Read-alike: El Niño by Pam Muñoz Ryan. (Ages 10-13.)
The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls
by Judith Rossell

When she arrives at the Midwatch Institute, headstrong Maggie Fishbone discovers that the gloomy-seeming orphanage is actually a school that trains girls to "solve mysteries and do good deeds and fight bad guys." Set in a 1920s-era world of airships and motorcars, this clever story offers plenty of intrigue and thrills. (Ages 8-12.)
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Will on the Inside
by Andrew Eliopulos

It's a big change for seventh-grader Will when he's diagnosed with Crohn's disease, forcing him to temporarily quit the soccer team he loves while he gets used to new medication. Even bigger, though, is realizing that he might be gay -- and that his church group and soccer friends might treat him differently if he tells them. (Ages 9-13.)
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