New Books for Children and Teens, July 2021
Picture Books
Daisy / Jessica Bagley
Jack Gets Zapped! / Mac Barnett (easy reader)
Memory Jars / Vera Brosgol
Trillions of Trees / Kurt Cyrus
Llama Llama Meets the Babysitter / Anna Dewdney
Marsha is Magnetic / Beth Ferry
Somewhere Else / Gus Gordon
Wolfboy / Andy Harkness
Quiet Down, Loud Town! / Allastair Heim
What About Works? / Ryan T. Higgins (easy reader)
The Boy Who Went to Mars / Simon James
Something’s Wrong! A Bear, a Hare, and some Underwear / Jory John
Thao / Thao Lam
Backyard Bugs / Jill McDonald (board book)
The Octopus Escapes / Maile Meloy
Betty’s Burgled Bakery: an alliteration adventure / Travis Nichols
Outside Inside / LeUyen Pham
Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots / Michael Rex
Follow That Frog / Philip Stead
Mel Fell / Corey R. Tabor
I’m On It! / Andrea Tsunami (easy reader)
Wishes / Muon Van
Bear Can’t Wait! / Karma Wilson
Regina is not a Little Dinosaur / Andrea Zuill
Children’s Fiction
Too Small Tola / Atinuke
Flight of the Puffin / Ann Braden
My Life as a Potato / Arianne Costner
War and Millie McGonigle / Karen Cushman
Charlie Thorne and the Lost City / Stuart Gibbs
Ground Zero: a novel of 9/11 / Alan Gratz
Whispering Pines / Heidi Lang
Glitch / Laura Martin
A Long Road on a Short Day / Gary D. Schmidt
Case File: Little Claws / Eliot Schrefer (Animal Rescue Agency)
Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom / Matthew Swanson
Children’s Nonfiction
Before She Was Harriet: the story of Harriet Tubman / Lisa Cline-Ransome
The Tulsa Race Massacre / Kara L. Laughlin
Stamped (for kids): racism, antiracism, and you / Sonja Cherry-Paul
Different Abilities / Rebecca Pettiford
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: R.B.G. vs. Inequality / Jonah Winter
For Teens
Lore / Alexandra Bracken
Library of Souls / Ransom Riggs
Nubia: real one / L.L. McKinney (graphic novel)