New Children's Fiction Books
New arrivals added to our Children's Fiction Collection in the last 7 days
| Title | Date added | |
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| A good day for climbing trees by Jacobs, Jaco, author. |
How two unlikely heroes inspired a whole town. Sometimes, in the blink of an eye, you do something that changes your life forever. Ike climbing a tree with a girl you don't know. Marnus is tired of feeling invisible, living in the shadow of his two brothers. His older brother is good at breaking swimming records and girls’ hearts. His younger brother is already a crafty entrepreneur who has tricked him into doing the dishes all summer. But when a girl called Leila turns up on their doorstep one |
Jun 17, 2018 |
| A hint of hydra by Lang, Heidi, author. |
"Thirteen-year-old chef Lailu must uncover the truth behind a murder before the elves and the scientists of Twin Rivers declare war on each other"-- |
Jun 20, 2018 |
| American girl. Addy - The Underground Railroad by Bader, Bonnie, 1961- author. |
An introduction to the real-world experiences of passengers, conductors and abolitionists, well-known and unknown, who shaped history through their participation in the Underground Railroad, is complemented by reminiscences by BeForever character and escaped slave, Addy Walker. |
Jun 22, 2018 |
| American girl. Felicity - The Boston Tea Party by Paley, Rebecca, author. |
Recounts life in early colonial America leading up to the famous tea tax protest that pushed the colonies and the British closer to war, using the stories of Felicity Merriman and how she became caught in between the two sides of the American Revolution. |
Jun 22, 2018 |
| American girl. Samantha - Titanic by Berne, Emma Carlson, author. |
The Titanic includes enough real stories of the tragic "unsinkable ship" and its passengers and crew to fill an ocean liner. Throughout, BeForever character Samantha Parkington shares snippets of her own exciting fictional story of traveling as a first class passenger in the early 1900s, when steamship was the only way to travel across the ocean. |
Jun 22, 2018 |
| Annie B., made for TV by Dixon, Amy, 1975- author. |
Eleven-year-old Annie, who always feels not quite as good as her best friend, feels her time to shine has come when she gets to audition for a local show. |
Jun 22, 2018 |
| Annie's life in lists by Mahoney, Kristin Mary, author. |
Fifth-grader Annie writes lists to keep track of changes in her life when her family moves from Brooklyn to the small town of Clover Gap. |
Jun 18, 2018 |
| Beneath the blocks - an unofficial minecrafter mystery series. 2 by Morgan, Winter, author. |
After solving the mystery of the stolen treasure, Edison is all set to return to his alchemy, when his friend Omar shows up at his door pleading for help. There is something or someone living beneath the blocks of Omar's town, and things have started to take a treacherous turn. What started out as the theft of livestock and wheat has escalated, and now villagers have started to go missing as well. Edison tries to convince Omar that he's not a good fit for the job--as he only solved a local robbe |
Jun 22, 2018 |
| Blue window by Gewirtz, Adina, author. |
Five siblings fall through time and space into a strange, unkind world — their arrival mysteriously foretold — and land in the center of an epic civil struggle in a country where many citizens have given themselves over to their primal fears and animal passions at the urging of a power-hungry demagogue. When siblings Susan, Max, Nell, Kate, and Jean tumble one by one through a glowing cobalt window, they find themselves outside their cozy home — and in a completely unfamiliar world where everyth |
Jun 20, 2018 |
| Breakout by Messner, Kate, author. |
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison. |
Jun 16, 2018 |
| Bug Girl. Fury on the dance floor by Harper, Benjamin, author. |
After discovering her bug powers and saving the town of Oyster Cove, Amanda "Bug Girl" Price and her ex-best friend Emily have spent the entire summer together in superhero training. But when the first day of seventh grade arrives, nothing has changed on the social front. Emily is as obsessed with popularity as ever, ignoring Amanda in favor of new-girl Geri, whose favorite activity is making fun of Amanda. When Geri reveals herself as the true villain bent on Oyster Cove's destruction at the sc |
Jun 18, 2018 |
| Captain Superlative by Puller, J. S., author. |
Janey, a quiet outsider, is inspired by the eccentric and enigmatic Captain Superlative, a masked superhero who runs through the halls of their middle school, performing radical acts of kindness. |
Jun 20, 2018 |
| Carnival magic by Ephron, Amy, author. |
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Jun 22, 2018 |
| Charmed by Calonita, Jen, author. |
Gilly's gone from zero to hero at Fairy Tale Reform School, but it's still not smooth sailing. Her new villainous professor is the infamous pirate Blackbeard, and her newfound cool factor might be making her act a bit more royal than she'd like to admit. When "The Wicked One," aka Sleeping Beauty's nemesis, breaks the Evil Queen out of the dungeon, Gilly realizes the kingdom is still far from safe. Gilly and her friends must figure out who is trading secrets in the castle and how to stop Alva fr |
Jun 17, 2018 |
| City of Islands by Wallace, Kali |
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Jun 17, 2018 |
| Clara Voyant by Delaney, Rachelle, author. |
"Clara can't believe her no-nonsense grandmother has just up and moved to Florida, leaving Clara and her mother on their own for the first time. This means her mother can finally "follow her bliss," which involves moving to a tiny apartment in Kensington Market, working at a herbal remedy shop and trying to develop her so-called mystical powers. Clara tries to make the best of a bad situation by joining the newspaper staff at her new middle school, where she can sharpen her investigative journal |
Jun 20, 2018 |
| Confusion is nothing new by Acampora, Paul, author. |
Fourteen-year-old Ellie Magari's mother left shortly after Ellie was born, and her father has raised her, but Ellie always figured that one day she would meet her mother and ask her some pertinent questions--but now her mother has died, and Ellie does not know exactly how to feel about that, but she is determined, with the help of her friends in the St. Francis of Assisi's Howling Wolves marching band (where she plays the glockenspiel), to make some kind of connection with her mother's memory. |
Jun 18, 2018 |
| Cracks in the cone by Simon, Coco, author. |
Now that the girls all work at the ice cream shop on Sundays, Allie sees her friends' jobs through a different lens. If they mess up the cash register by a few dollars Tamiko simply shrugs, but Allie knows that by the end of the week all those little misses can add up. She doesn't want to be their boss, but somehow she needs to figure out a way to make sure she's part of a team that can see things from her perspective, too. She just has to do it before the cracks in the cone melt their friendshi |
Jun 20, 2018 |
| Curse of the werewolf boy by Priestley, Chris, 1958- author, illustrator. |
Maudlin Towers School students Mildew and Sponge investigate the missing School Spoon and the appearance of two possible ghosts, one a Viking. |
Jun 17, 2018 |
| Cursed crusaders by Quill, Penumbra, author. |
Join the Cutie Mark Crusaders--Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo--as they read mysteries, legends, ghost stories, and every other kind of tale that makes a mane stand on end. |
Jun 20, 2018 |