LibraryAware October 2025

Recent Releases

You decide your adventure : join Bear Grylls on the ultimate expedition!
by Bear Grylls

Get ready to join outdoor adventurer Bear Grylls as you take on snowcapped mountains, craggy cliffs, exposed open grassland, dense forests, and raging water rapids. Just like on a real adventure, you'll have to think fast--the choices you make will reveal which page you need to turn to in the book, just like a pick-your-own adventure story. But remember, choose carefully! Bear will be there to help guide you and give you some handy tips and tricks, but the decisions will be yours to make. (Ages 7-10.)

Schooled
by Jamie Sumner

Eleven-year-old Lenny navigates grief while grudgingly attending an experimental middle school located on the college campus where his father teaches. (Ages 10-13.)

Hut! Hut! Hike!
by Andrew Maraniss

Neighborhood friends Jasper, Mo and Ruby learn about facing insecurities and also teamwork, competition and love for sports when they try out for an organized flag football and play their first real game. Includes, football history, player biographies and flag football rules. (Ages 6-9.)

Lu and Ren's Guide to Geozoology
by Angela Hsieh

Lu has always planned to be a traveling geozoologist like her ah-ma (grandmother), studying creatures like mossgoats, cloud jellyfish, and super-huge axolotls. So when Ah-ma's letters stop, Lu decides to search for her, with some help from her old friend Ren. Soft and dreamy artwork helps transport you to the magical setting of this sweet graphic novel adventure. For fans of: K. O'Neill's Tea Dragon Society series. (Ages 8-12.)

Where only storms grow / : A Novel About the Dust Bowl
by Alyssa Colman

During the worst storm of the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma, twins Howe and Joanna must put their differences aside and work together to save their farm from ruin. (Ages 10-13.)

Another
by Paul Tremblay

Already highly anxious, 12-year-old Casey is extra freaked out when his parents welcome the arrival of Morel, a not-quite-human kid who seems to be made of clay -- clay that’s starting to resemble Casey more and more every day. Perfect for horror fans, this unusual story starts out unsettling and ramps up to downright disturbing. Read-alike: Kenneth Oppel's The Nest. (Ages 10-13.)

Never Silent : A Hiroshima Survivor's Story
by Setsuko Thurlow

To be published on what will be the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, survivor Setsuko Thurlow shares her memories of that horrific event and her resulting lifelong commitment to activism to ban nuclear arms. When Setsuko Thurlow was thirteen, she witnessed one of history's most horrific events. She experienced--and survived--the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Since then, she has worked tirelessly to educate people about the catastrophe and to ensure that it never happens again. As a leading member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), she gave the acceptance speech when the organization won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Never Silent recounts Setsuko's earliest memories of her happy life in Hiroshima, followed by the devastating firsthand impact she witnesses after the dropping of the atomic bomb, and finally traces the steps she takes to rebuild a life in the aftermath of her experiences. (Ages 10-13.)

The truth about the Tooth Fairy
by Leah Cypess

Miriam is the youngest in her family and she is tired of being treated like the baby, so using her detective skills, she set sets out to debunk the fantastical things people tell gullible kids, starting with the Tooth Fairy. (Ages 5-9.)

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