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Books for Kids and Tweens April 2025 |
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The Peach Thief
by Linda Joan Smith
When orphan Scilla Brown climbs the Earl of Havermore's garden wall
to steal a peach, she is caught and, mistaken for a boy, ends up with a job. A story about fate, ambition, and identity.
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The Enemy's Daughter
by Anne Blankman
In this story about friendship and learning to think for oneself, it is
wartime 1915 and Marta and her father are trying to get home to Germany. When her father is detained, Marta is welcomed into an
Irish family's home, but must keep her German nationality a secret.
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Tear This Down
by Barbara Dee
When 12-year-old Freya discovers that her town's historical hero held problematic views about women, she advocates to replace his statue with that of a lesser-known suffragette.
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The Ghosts of Bitterfly Bay
by Mary Averling
Maudie isn't your typical 12-year-old girl -- she's the ghost of one.
Along with her best friend Kit and her little brother Scratch, Maudie haunts a cabin in the woods. But everything changes when Kit and Scratch go missing, and Maudie is sure something terrible must have happened. With nobody else to turn to, she begs for help from Gianna, the living girl that she's been haunting. Working together, can the girls find Maudie's fellow ghosts?
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Spider-Man : Stories From the Spider-Verse
by Faridah áAbâikâe-âIyâimâidâe
Spider-Verse is filled with Spider-Heroes, each on their own world. Spider-Punk is as adept at the guitar as he is at fighting crime.
Spider-UK is juggling Eid celebrations and a super-villain threat to her London neighborhood. And there's Web-Weaver, whose latest fashion event is threatened by a citywide storm of hallucinations. Some, like Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, have already crossed from one universe to the next. But others are still discovering that they're not alone!
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The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest
by Aubrey Hartman
Deadwood Forest is not alive but it’s also not dead, as is the case with its resident Afterlife Usher. Clare is a fox who was spared death so he could become a guide to lost souls trying to pass on to the afterlife. Leading a solitary but meaningful life, Clare has learned to guide wandering spirits and to read the signs of what the eternal life is trying to communicate. He does his job well and efficiently, so it’s only when Gingersnips the badger shows up without a clear or easy way to pass on that Clare begins to sense trouble.
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Kwame Crashes the Underworld
by Craig Kofi Farmer
12-year-old Kwame Powell has been sucked into a magical whirlpool
that leads him straight to the Ghanaian underworld. With a mischievous monkey by his side, Kwame finds himself in a fight to save humanity, along with his late grandmother who is somehow alive and still a kid!
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| One Wrong Step by Jennifer A. NielsenIn this fascinating historical adventure, it's 1939 and nobody has ever reached the top of Tibet's Mt. Everest. British 14-year-old Atlas and his dad hope to be among the first, but their climb is filled with danger -- from Nazi spies to a life-threatening avalanche. |
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Last Chance Academy: A Study in Secrets
by Debbi Michiko Florence
12-year-old Meg is not having the best year. After she was kicked out
of her latest school, Meg has been sent to Leland Chase Academy
(aka Last Chance Academy) with a warning to shape up. During Meg's first week there, an envelope appears under her door. It is an invitation to participate in a unique scavenger hunt, from someone called The Mastermind. The only rules? No cheating.... and don't get caught!
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Murder At the Museum
by Alasdair Beckett-King
Bonnie Montgomery is the world’s greatest detective. Not that anyone (other than Grampa Banks) has heard of her. But they
will have heard of Montgomery Bonbon, the gentleman detective with the bristly mustache, fashionable beret, and accent that’s
hard to place. Montgomery Bonbon is responsible for solving many high-stakes crimes, but now he is needed on a case much closer
to home -- a mysterious death has occurred at the Hornville Museum in Bonnie’s hometown of Widdlington! Don’t look too carefully, however... from certain angles, Montgomery Bonbon looks suspiciously like a ten-year-old girl!.
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The Labyrinth of Souls
by Leslie Vedder
Ix Tatterfall has always been an outcast with big secrets. She can easily cross into the Labyrinth of Souls, and she can see strange Nightmare beasts when no one else can. Some are merely a nuisance, but others are dangerous... or even deadly. On one forbidden trip into the Labyrinth, Ix is apprehended by an elite magical group. Instead of being punished, she is allowed to enter their mysterious academy. For the first time ever, Ix is surrounded by people like her!
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Max In the Land of Lies : A Tale of World War II
by Adam Gidwitz
Young Max Bretzfeld has become a British spy and is returning to Germany with two missions: to infiltrate the Funkhaus (the center of Nazi radio and propaganda), and to find his missing parents. Sequel to Max's first historical adventure, Max In the House of Spies.
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Contact your librarian for more great books for kids age 8-12! |
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