New and Notable for Adults, Teens, and Kids

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Asian American and Pacific Islander Experiences

Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Gardening Books for Kids

Poems for Our Shared Planet

YA Arab American Heritage Month

YA Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 

All Staff Picks:

Kids     

Teens     

Adults     

Mixed Ages     

 

 

Kids: Gardening Books for Kids

April Staff Picks List

  • Plant the Tiny Seed


  • Florette


  • Dig In!: 12 Easy Gardening Projects Using Kitchen Scraps


  • Lola Plants a Garden


  • The Forever Garden


  • In the Garden with Dr. Carver


  • We Are the Gardeners


  • Bloom


  • Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table


  • Plant a Little Seed


  • Ojiichan's Gift


  • Children's Garden: Growing Food in the City


  • Yucky Worms


  • What's in the Garden?


  • Let’s Garden: A Step-By-Step Introduction


  • 101 Kid-Friendly Plants


  • Gardening Projects for Kids


  • Dig In!


  • The Curious Garden


  • The Ugly Vegetables


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Teens: YA Arab American Heritage Month

April Staff Picks List

  • The Next New Syrian Girl


  • Travelers Along the Way


  • As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow


  • A Guide to the Dark


  • All-American Muslim Girl


  • Squire


  • Bright Red Fruit


  • Huda F Are You?


  • Thunderbird


  • Mirage


  • We Hunt the Flame


  • It Won't Always Be Like This: A Graphic Memoir


  • Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners


  • Nayra and the Djinn


  • Something More


  • The Shape of Thunder


  • Ida in the Middle


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Adults: Poems for Our Shared Planet

April Staff Picks List

  • Nostalgia, My Enemy: Poems


  • Book of Twilight


  • The Kingdom of Surfaces: Poems


  • The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda: Japan's Most Beloved Modern Haiku Poet


  • Poetry Comics


  • Are You an Echo?: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko


  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein


  • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver


  • Load in Nine Times: Poems


  • Rumi: Selected Poems


  • Autobiography of Death


  • Penguin Book of Russian Poetry


  • Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude


  • The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats


  • Catching Life By The Throat


  • Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability


  • The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems, 1950-2001


  • Walt Whitman - Selected Poems


  • The Illustrated Emily Dickinson: 25 Essential Poems


  • When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry


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