New Books for Children and Teens, March 2021
Picture Books
Puppy in my Head: a book about mindfulness / Elise Gravel
Ten Beautiful Things / Molly Beth Griffin
No Kimchi For Me! / Aram Kim
Ducks on the Road / Anita Lobel
It’s Springtime, Mr. Squirrel! / Sebastian Meschenmoser
If I Built a School / Chris Van Dusen
I Want to Sleep Under the Stars! / Mo Willems (easy reader)
Children’s Fiction
Bon Voyage / Anna Alter (Sprout Street Neighbors)
Midnight at the Barclay Hotel / Fleur Bradley
Bips and Roses / Asia Citro (Zoey and Sassafras series)
Caterflies and Ice / Asia Citro (Zoey and Sassafras series)
Dragons and Marshmallows / Asia Citro (Zoey and Sassafras series)
Grumplets and Pests / Asia Citro (Zoey and Sassafras series)
Monsters and Mold / Asia Citro (Zoey and Sassafras series)
The Pod and the Bog / Asia Citro (Zoey and Sassafras series)
The Sea in Winter / Christine Day
The Gnawer of Rocks / Louise Flaherty (graphic novel)
The Lion of Mars / Jennifer L. Holm
When You Trap a Tiger / Tae Keller
Notorious / Gordon Korman
Ghost Squad / Claribel A. Ortega
A Game of Fox and Squirrels / Jenn Reese
Just Like That / Gary D. Schmidt
Ancestor Approved: intertribal stories for kids / edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Pea, Bee, & Jay: Stuck Together / Brian “Smitty” Smith (graphic novel)
A Wish in the Dark / Christina Soontornvat
The Dangerous Gift / Tui T. Sutherland (Wings of Fire series)
Children’s Nonfiction
Dolphins: voices in the ocean / Susan Casey
Mission to Pluto: the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper Belt / Mary Kay Carson
Backyard Bears: conservation, habitat changes, and the rise of urban wildlife / Amy Cherrix
The Great Rhino Rescue: saving the southern white rhinos / Sandra Markle
The Ultimate Unofficial Encyclopedia for Minecrafters: Earth / Megan Miller
Growing Up in Russia / James Roland
Chance: escape from the Holocaust / Uri Shulevitz
The Wright Brothers: nose-diving into history / Erik Slader
Welcome to your Period! / Yumi Stynes
Bad Princess: true tales from behind the tiara / Kris Waldherr
Box: Henry Brown mails himself to freedom / Carole Boston Weatherford
Whale Quest: working together to save endangered species / Karen Romano Young
For Teens
Chain of Iron / Cassandra Clare (The Last Hours series)
The Sacrifice of Darkness / Roxane Gay (graphic novel)
They Went Left / Monica Hesse
Burn Our Bodies Down / Rory Power
Juliet Takes a Breath / Gabby Rivera
Slaughterhouse-Five: a graphic novel adaptation / Kurt Vonnegut
Punching the Air / Ibi Aanu Zoboi