New Books for Children and Teens, January 2021
Picture Books
Madame Badobedah / Sophie Dahl
I Am Every Good Thing / Derrick Barnes
Newton and Curie, the Science Squirrels / Daniel Kirk
Ida, Always / Caron Levis
We Are Water Protectors / Carole Lindstrom
Every Night is Pizza Night / J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
Will You Be My Friend? / Sam McBratney
Construction Site / Jill McDonald (board book)
The Suitcase / Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
The Friendship Book / Mary Lyn Ray
The Paper Kingdom / Helena Ku Rhee
Rain Before Rainbows / Smriti Prasadam-Halls
Margaret’s Unicorn / Briony May Smith
The Best Worst Poet Ever / Lauren Stohler
Unicorns are the Worst / Alex Willan
Children’s Fiction
The Canyons Edge / Dusti Bowling
King and the Dragonflies / Kacen Callender
A Tale of Witchcraft / Chris Colfer
Investigators / John Patrick Green (graphic novel)
The Silver Arrow / Lev Grossman
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears / Tehlor Kay Mejia
Primer: a superhero graphic novel / Jennifer Muro & Thomas Krajewski
The Tower of Nero / Rick Riordan (Trials of Apollo series)
Skunk and Badger / Amy Timberlake
Three Keys: a front desk novel / Kelly Yang
Children’s Nonfiction
Finish the Fight! the brave and revolutionary women who fought for the right to vote / Veronica Chambers
Grow: Secrets of Our DNA / Nicola Davies
Strongman: the rise of five dictators and the fall of democracy / Kenneth C. Davis
Recycled Robots: 10 robot projects / Robert Malone
Black Heroes of the Wild West / James Otis Smith (graphic novel)
For Teens
Department of Mind-Blowing Theories: science cartoons by Tom Gauld (graphic novel)
Long Way Down: the graphic novel / Jason Reynolds