October 2024 list by K. Pearson |
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Camp Twisted Pine
by Ciera Burch
Sent to Camp Twisted Pine for the summer, where campers start disappearing, 11-year-old Naomi must use her years of studying the scientific method to identify and stop a dangerous predator before it's too late.
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The Diamond Explorer
by Kao Kalia Yang
The young child of Hmong refugees, Malcolm, a gifted collector of his family's stories and tireless seeker of his place within an evolving Hmong American culture, chronicles his journey to becoming a shaman like his grandparents before him.
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Escape From the Dungeons of Snerbville
by Patrick Carman
Barker Mifflin is back! Sort of. He fell into a hole--or more accurately, he rode a forty-foot chicken down into the depths of Snerbville. Will he be lost there forever, or will he finally solve the mystery behind Colossal Chemistry?
With the help of his new pal Tilda Huxley--who happens to be the size of a Barbie Doll, thanks to scientific experiments gone wrong--he might just have a shot at finding out the real reason everyone in his hometown is so tight lipped about its secrets. But first he has to avoid getting shrunk himself, or worse, getting discovered by certain fuzzy creatures with a ferocious appetite for garbage ... or the next best thing.
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The Flicker
by H. E. Edgmon
Leaving home with their infant half-brother in search of Millie's Seminole elder grandma, step-sisters Mille and Rose get some unexpected help braving the hostile wasteland to make it to her safely, but the Hive, a villainous group hoarding supplies and living in luxury, stand in their way.
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Gracie Under the Waves
by Linda Sue Park
While in Roatan, Honduras, snorkeling with her family, Gracie, who loves floating underwater above all else, is sidelined by an injury and joins the cause to save the reef, turning her disappointment into an opportunity to fight climate change.
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The Grimthorpe Grave
by K. H. Saxton
Twelve-year-old detectives Alex and Asha seek to restore the long-tarnished reputation of Hannah Grimthorpe, the notorious witch from Northbrook's colonial past.
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Impossible Creatures
by Katherine Rundell
When Mal barges into his life, along with a baby griffin, demanding his help, Christopher embarks on an adventure of a lifetime with this fierce girl to save the Archipelago, a hidden world where magical creatures have thrived for thousands of years.
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In a Pickle!
by Lisa Greenwald
When her BFF's cousin Charlie announces that her Bat Mitzvah venue closed and now she's probably not going to have a Bat Mitzvah party, tenacious 11-year-old Ellie takes it upon herself to be a party planner. In fact, the whole idea inspires her to be a party planner when she grows up. How fun would that be?!
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Kareem Between
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
With the school year getting off to a rough start, Syrian American seventh grader Kareem finds himself stuck between friends, between football, between parents and between right and wrong, and must find his voice amidst the chaos.
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Library Girl
by Polly Horvath
Raised by four librarians who found her abandoned as a baby, 11-year-old Essie, longing for more freedom and a friend her own age, gets her wish when she meets a mysterious boy but soon realizes life isn't as perfect as the stories she's grown up with.
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The Long Way Around
by Anne Nesbet
While on a hiking trip in the mountains of California, cousins Owen, Vivian and Amy are cut off from their parents by a huge earthquake and must face their deepest fears as they navigate an unfamiliar and dangerous wilderness to get home safely.
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The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
by Kate McKinnon
From a beloved Saturday Night Live alum comes a madcap new adventure about sisters Gertrude, Eugenia and Dee-Dee Porch, who don't belong in their snooty town, school, or adoptive family, and after getting kicked out of the last etiquette school that would take them, 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.
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The No-Brainer's Guide to Decomposition
by Adrianna Cuevas
This spooky middle grade novel follows Frani as she fights to stop the undead from rising in her father's body-farm laboratory, that is, if she can embrace the true nature of her brain and its ADHD.
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Oh My Dog!
by Iva-Marie Palmer
After her mom dies and her family loses everything in Hurricane Emma, 12-year-old Caroline Kline doesn't believe in miracles, but when she starts walking her neighbor's dog, she discovers he can talk and he's been sent from the heavens with a message just for her.
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On a Wing and a Tear
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Close friends Melanie (Muscogee-Odawa) and Ray (Cherokee-Seminole) join Grampa Charlie Halfmoon on a road trip from Chicago to Macon, Georgia, to bring Great-Grandfather Bat, a living legend, to a historic game, facing adventure, danger and a hair-raising mystery along the way.
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Pahua and the Dragon's Secret
by Lori M Lee
The reincarnation of renowned warrior Shee Yee, 11-year-old Pahuo travels to the Land of Dragons where a truth stone will help her locate the second seal to bind Xov, but she discovers that creating something as powerful as a cage for a god requires an equally powerful sacrifice.
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Quantum Interstellar Sports League
by J. Scott Savage
Unsure if he can live up to his father's all-star reputation, twelve-year-old Wyatt reluctantly plays quarterback on Earth's football team in an intergalactic sports tournament.
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The School for Wicked Witches
by Will Taylor
11-year-old Ava Heartstraw is nervous but excited to leave her desert home and begin training to become a powerful witch. But when the snooty teachers at West Oz Witch Academy misunderstand her magic, she suddenly finds herself a permanent prisoner of the grim School for Wicked Witches.
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Screech School
by Jennifer Killick
When a horde of giant vampire birds that are after blood attack from above, Angelo and his friends must save their school and the big dance from these fearsome flying creatures that are unlike anything they've ever encountered.
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The Serpent Rider
by Yxavel Magno Diäno
Determined to fulfill her destiny as a Serpent Rider while protecting her little sister Ligaya, village princess Tani is tasked with memorizing their community's history and forced to make a desperate deal with a stranger for a monster of her own, putting Ligaya in grave danger.
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Shark Night
by R. L. Stine
Liam is helping his mom film a documentary for the Danger Channel. He will be in a giant water tank as a hammerhead shark is lowered in with him--but don't worry, the hammerhead is very gentle, old, and toothless. But as Liam waits in the tank, watching as the shark is lowered in, he realizes... they have the wrong shark!
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A Sky Full of Dragons
by Tiffany McDaniel
When her aunt is kidnapped by a stranger with a growling hat, 8-year-old Spella must go to Dragon's Knob, a school for wand witchery and wizardry, where a long-buried secret hidden somewhere in the school is linked to her aunt's disappearance.
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Splinter & Ash
by Marieke Nijkamp
When she is abducted in an attempt to overthrow her mother, the queen, Princess Adelisa (aka Ash) and her squire and best friend, Splinter, use sharp daggers and even sharper wits to escape-and only together will they be able to find their way home.
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The Stolen Key
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Determined to find the truth about his dad and finally solve this deeply personal mystery, Colin and his friend Nevaeh discover a new clue, which takes them on a quest from eerie storage units to lock-lined bridges to the secrets in Nevaeh's family.
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A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
by Jasmine Warga
When he encounters a floating girl who resembles the girl in a painting stolen from the museum, Rami becomes determined to solve the mystery and teams up with a classmate and a turtle named Agatha to look for the clues all around them.
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That Curious Thing
by Chris Raschka
The newest members of PURR (Peace Urgently Requires Reasonableness), a secret society of cats fighting for peace, 12-year-old Cleo and her cat, Muffin, must infiltrate an evil group of cats planning to send dogs to space for ransom and save the world.
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Witchwood
by Kalyn Josephson
Anna and Colin, two kids with supernatural powers, are forced by a mysterious attack to seek shelter in the magical town of Witchwood, where a sinister force is making local witches disappear, and Anna might be next.
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Worst Week Ever: Wednesday
by Eva Amores
The humor of Captain Underpants meets the blockbuster format of Diary of a Wimpy Kid in this laugh-out-loud series about Justin Chase, who is having the Worst. Week. EVER! Have you ever had a bad week? Justin Chase sure has and THIS is it!
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