New Books for Kids & Teens, October 2024
Most of the new books for children added this month come from a Rural Libraries Grant through the Children’s Literacy Foundation awarded to the Latham Library for the 2024/2025 school year. Thank you CLiF!
Picture Books
Attack of the 50-Foot Fly Guy / Tedd Arnold (early reader)
Terrible Horses / Raymond Antrobus
This Baby, That Baby / Cari Best
Big Sister, Long Coat / Nelly Buchet
A Very Cranky Book / Angela DiTerlizzi
That Always Happens Sometimes / Kiley Frank
Remembering / Xelena Gonzalez
Dinosaur Train / John Steven Gurney
The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn / Shawn Harris
Gigi and Ojiji / Melissa Iwai (early reader)
Gifts from the Garbage Truck / Andrew Larsen
Built to Last / Minh Le
Nat the Cat Has a Snack / Jarrett Lerner (early reader)
Frank and Bean / Jamie Michalak (early reader)
Frank and Bean: food truck fiasco / Jamie Michalak (early reader)
The Stinky Feet Monster / Jamie Michalak (early reader)
Drawn Onward / Daniel Nayeri
The Night Wild / Zoe Tilley Poster
All My Stripes: A Story for Children with Autism / Shaina Rudolph
Animal Countdown / Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Tiny Jenny: Little Fairy, Big Trouble / Briony May Smith
Ursula Upside Down / Corey R. Tabor
Vamos! Let’s Cross the Bridge / Raul the Third
More Dung! A Beetle Tale / Frank Weber
When You Can Swim / Jack Wong
Ramadan Kareem / M.O. Yuksel
Children’s Fiction
Barb and the Battle for Bailiwick / Dan Abdo (graphic novel)
Barb and the Ghost Blade / Dan Abdo (graphic novel)
Blue, Barry & Pancakes: danger on mount choco / Dan Abdo (graphic novel)
Uprooted: a memoir about what happens when your family moves back / Ruth Chan (graphic novel)
Viewfinder / Christine D.U. Chung (graphic novel)
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon, the graphic novel / Paula Danziger, adapted by Victoria Ying
Art Club / Rashad Doucet (graphic novel)
Beak & Ally: unlikely friends / Norman Feuti (graphic novel)
The Worlds We Leave Behind / A.F. Harrold
Things in the Basement / Ben Hatke (graphic novel)
Meant To Be / Jo Knowles
Enginerds / Jarrett Lerner
Chunky / Yehudi Mercado (graphic novel)
Not the Worst Friend in the World / Anne Rellihan
Dragonboy / Megan Reyes
15 Secrets to Survival / Natalie D. Richards
Sir Ladybug and the Queen Bee / Corey R. Tabor (graphic novel)
Greenwild: the world beyond the door / Pari Thomson
DN Doggos: get the party started / Scout Underhill (graphic novel)
Children’s Nonfiction
An American Story / Kwame Alexander
A sporting chance: how Ludwig Guttmann created the paralympic games / Lori Alexander
Caves / Nell Cross Beckerman
A first guide to dogs: understanding your very best friend / John Bradshaw
Something About the Sky / Rachel Carson
The observologist: a handbook for mounting very small scientific expeditions / Giselle Clarkson
Fighting With Love: the legacy of John Lewis / Lesa Cline-Ransome
They built me for freedom: the story of Juneteenth and Houston’s Emancipation Park / Tanya Duncan Ellis
Fungi Grow / Maria Gianferrari
Desert Queen / Jyoti Rajan Gopal
What’s inside a caterpillar cocoon?: and other questions about moths & butterflies / Rachael Ignotofsky
A Vaccine is Like a Memory / Rajani LaRocca
Butt or Face? Can you tell which one you’re looking at? / Kari LaVelle
Yes! No! A first conversation about consent / Megan Madison
When Forests Burn: the story of wildfires in America / Albert Marrin
Action! How Movies Began / Meghan McCarthy
Be An Entrepreneur / Christy Mihaly
The waiting place: when home is lost and a new one not yet found / Dina Nayeri
Darwin’s Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular / Polly Owen
Billions of years, amazing changes: the story of evolution / Laurence Pringle
The Iguanodon’s horn: how artists and scientists put a dinosaur back together again and again… and again / Sean Rubin
Chadwick Boseman: King of Wakanda : a hero on and off the screen / Chris Singleton
Fire Escape: how animals and plants survive wildfires / Jessica Stremer
A place called America: a story of the land and people / Jennifer Thermes
For Teens
Westfallen / Ann & Ben Brashares
The New Girl / Cassandra Calin (graphic novel)
A pirate’s life for she: swashbuckling women through the ages / Laura Sook Duncombe
How it All Ends / Emma Hunsinger (graphic novel)
Courage to dream: tales of hope in the Holocaust : a graphic novel / Neal Shusterman
Billy Blaster and the Robot Army from Outer Space / Laini Taylor (graphic novel)
Ash’s Cabin / Jen Wang (graphic novel)