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Books for Kids and Tweens October 2024 |
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Gracie Under the Waves
by Linda Sue Park
Gracie loves floating underwater above all else, and she is excited to be in Honduras snorkeling with her family. When Gracie is sidelined by an injury, she turns her disappointment into an opportunity to fight climate change by joining others in their cause to save the reef.
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That Curious Thing
by Chris Raschka
PURR (Peace Urgently Requires Reasonableness), is a secret society
of cats fighting for peace. Can new members 12-year-old Cleo and her cat Muffin infiltrate an evil group of cats planning to send dogs to space for ransom? And also save the world?
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The Haunted States of America
by Solomon Hughes
Fifty-two stories (one from each state plus Washington DC and Puerto Rico) unearth the scariest lore and recount urban legends that evoke both fear and curiosity. Sure to keep young readers up all night!
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Mouse & His Dog
by Katherine Applegate
Longing for a fur-ever home, Buster (who gets overly excited and distracted) works to improve his behavior with the help of his Dogtown shelter friends. Despite their efforts, it turns out that Buster's human reading buddy is the key to going from bad dog to very, very good dog!
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Banned Books, Crop Tops, and Other Bad Influences
by Brigit Young
Rose is a good girl who listens to her parents and follows the rules.
Rules are there for a reason, aren't they? Talia, the new girl from
New York City, doesn't think so. Rose can't stop wondering what it
would be like to be Talia's friend, so when Talia suggests they start
a banned books club together, how can Rose say no?
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The Girls of Skylark Lane
by Robin Benway
Aggie and Jac might be twin sisters, but lately they haven't felt the
same about much of anything, especially since they've just moved to
Los Angeles and started a new school. When the twins are invited to join the ragtag neighborhood girls' softball team, Aggie jumps at the chance to make some new friends, even if she has to drag reluctant Jac along.
Is it wrong if they sometimes want to feel different from each other, even if there's no one else each twin would rather have for her sister?
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Onyx & Beyond
by Amber McBride
Onyx, a boy dealing with his mother's descent into early-onset dementia, hopes to fulfill his dream of becoming an astronaut. A sensitive and moving exploration of being young and Black in America, set amid the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's.
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The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
by Kate McKinnon
Orphaned sisters Gertrude, Eugenia, and Dee-Dee Porch have been kicked out of the last etiquette school that would take them. When the girls receive a mysterious invitation to a new school under the tutelage
of the infamous Millicent Quibb (a mad scientist with worms in her hair and oysters in her bathtub), how can they possibly turn down the chance for what is sure to be a madcap adventure?.
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Wrath of the Triple Goddess
by Rick Riordan
In his continuing quest to earn college recommendation letters from
the gods, Percy Jackson must pet-sit the goddess Hecate's polecat and giant mastiff during Halloween week. What could possibly go wrong?
Percy Jackson's Senior Year Adventures series, book 2.
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Spy School Goes Wild
by Stuart Gibbs
When Ben Ripley's attempt to take down his nemesis goes horribly wrong, stranding them together in an extremely dangerous wilderness,
he finds himself faced with a new enemy while trying to figure out how
to survive with his old one!
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Contact your librarian for more great books for kids 8-12! |
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