Books for Kids and Tweens January 2026 |
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A Year Without Home
by V. T. Bidania
After U.S. troops pull out of Vietnam, eleven-year-old Gao Sheng and her family are forced to flee their home in Laos and make a new home in a refugee camp in Thailand.
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The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls
by J. Anderson Coats
Set in 1910s Colorado, Stanislava, a first-generation American from a Slovene immigrant family, struggles between her traditional Slovene community and her desire to pursue a new life as she navigates self-determination, family duty, and the search for belonging.
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Defanged
by H. E. Edgmon
To save the only life he's ever known, a tween vampire might have to fight back and destroy some enemies.
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The Teacher of Nomad Land
by Daniel Nayeri
German armies are storming across Europe and Iran is a neutral country occupied by British forces on one side and Soviet forces on another. Babak and his little sister have just lost their father. Now orphans, the two devise a plan. Babak will take up his father's old job as a teacher to the nomads. With a chalkboard strapped to Babak's back, and a satchel full of textbooks, the siblings set off to find the nomad tribes as they make a dangerous trek across the mountains.
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Unsettling Salad!
by Aaron Reynolds
Thadeus Badger and his best friend, Oliver Possum, love eating hamburgers, but in an attempt to be healthy, they make a deal to eat a whole salad. But they soon find themselves in a showdown with something far more sinister than vegetables.
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Thick as Thieves (Sidekickss Volume 2)
by Dan Santat
Sidekicks returns with a brand-new adventure in this second series installment. Captain Amazing, the longtime hero of Metro City, has retired, and he's enjoying a much-needed vacation. But while he's away, a massive data breech disrupts the Society of Superheroes, and a flash drive containing sensitive information about Captain Amazing and other heroes winds up in reckless hands. Meanwhile, an unannounced visitor named Whipley arrives at the captain's house. Could Whipley be Shifty's loving, long-lost brother as he claims? Or is he framing the sidekicks for his own personal gain and vengeance?
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The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang
by Stan Yan
Twelve-year-old Eugenia Wang, who has never celebrated her birthday on April 4th due to her mom's superstition, starts to question whether she's cursed when troubling visions of doom begin to surface as she approaches her thirteenth birthday.
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Ask your librarian for more great books!
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