New Books @ Your Library™
June 2025

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Featured Children's Fiction & Graphic Novels
I survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919
by Georgia Ball

One of the strangest disasters in U.S. history, the explosion of a tank of sticky molasses that resulted in a molasses tsunami, is brought to life in a graphic novel that includes a nonfiction section with facts and photos about the event. 
Say my name! Say my name!
by R. L. Stine

Something fishy is going on! What happens when a talking fish, a runaway dog, and a herd of hog-like creatures descend on the woods behind Cody Brachman's house? An absolute nightmare! His friend Sam wanted to stay inside and play video games all day, but Cody insisted they go wading in the creek. What starts as a fun morning in the water quickly turns into the scariest day the two friends have ever experienced. If Cody can't figure out why everything is going wrong, he's worried he won't live to swim another day.
Stuck
by Kayla Miller

Olive is excited to reunite with Max and Bree at Camp Acorn Lake, but the buses have barely pulled away when her two closest camp friends start fighting . . . and it's not just a little squabble. They refuse to speak to each other and, even worse, try to make Olive choose sides. Any attempt to smooth things over seems to aggravate them more, leaving Olive stuck in the middle.
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Featured Levelled Readers
Sketty and Meatball
by Sarah Weeks

Two incorrigible dog best friends, Sketty and Meatball, do everything together; play, bark, sniff flowers and wag their tails — and happen to look quite a bit like their names!
Grace's Chinese New Year
by Jackie Huang

Grace and her family get ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
Heroes unite!
by Nicole Johnson

A story adapted from the script of an upcoming high-fantasy heist film "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves," which is based on the popular role-playing game.
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Featured Picture Books
Everything's wrong! : a bear, a hare, and trouble everywhere
by Jory John

Best friends Jeff and Anders start the day with the best of intentions, but before long, everything goes haywire. From power outages, to spilled breakfasts, to missing socks, a series of irritating incidents sends the bear-and-bunny duo on an epic journey that will test their fortitude and their friendship. Can these pals work together to salvage this disastrous day? Another read-out-loud, laugh-out-loud picture book from bestselling author Jory John, paired with standout talent Erin Kraan, reminds us that even when your day seems to go completely off the rails, you can make it through any challenge--especially when you have a good friend by your side.
They're heroes too : a celebration of community
by Pat Brisson

A picture-book celebration of the ordinary people--grownups and kids--who hold our world together by going about their daily lives and work.
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New Board Books
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell!
by Lucille Colandro

In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a woman swallows a shell, a crab, a fish, a gull, a pail, some sand, and a wave.
A good place
by Lucy Cousins

Bee, Ladybug, Beetle, and Dragonfly are looking for somewhere to live. And each has a different want: Bee loves flowers, Ladybug prefers leaves, Beetle is fond of dead wood, and Dragonfly likes ponds. But every time they find what seems like the perfect spot—with beautiful flowers, a tiny pond, some dead wood, or gorgeous green leaves—they discover it’s underfoot, near traffic, or otherwise not safe. Will these four friends ever find a good place?
Chicka chicka boom boom
by Bill Martin

In a rhythmic alphabet chant, all the letters race one another up the coconut tree.
New Children's Non-Fiction
How to survive in the age of dinosaurs : a handy guide to dodging deadly predators, riding out mega-monsoons, and escaping other perils of the prehistoric
by Stephanie Warren Drimmer

Test your chops and discover if you have what it takes to survive at a time when Earth looked, well, a tad different in this ultimate survival guide to the prehistoric age. Find out how to make it through exploding volcanoes and mega monsoons--while dodging giant Permian bugs! See how to fend off an angry pterosaur and learn what to do if you're caught in a stampede of enormous titanosaurs. Discover what you could eat (spoiler alert: You better like the taste of insects!), and find out which hungry creatures just might try to eat you!
The illustrated encyclopedia of dinosaurs : a visual tour of the prehistoric world
by Claudia Martin

"Based on the latest understanding of dinosaur life, this definitive guide tackles the questions kids really want answered. Discover which dinosaur could run the fastest, why some dinosaurs lived in herds, and what made T. rex a formidable predator.
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