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    June 7, 2025

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    Never Take Your Rhino on a Plane is laugh-out-loud funny

    AANHPI Heritage
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    The Music Inside Us is beautiful biography of cellist Yo-Yo Ma

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    Roselle Lim’s Celestial Banquet is a tasty YA adventure

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    April 17, 2025

    Betty C. Tang’s Outsider Kids is excellent sequel to Parachute Kids

    February 24, 2025

    Andrea Hannah’s The Wildest Things is OK Snow White retelling

    August 15, 2024

    Jen Wang’s artwork is masterful in YA graphic novel Ash’s Cabin

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    Love is Love celebrates diversity, different kinds of normal

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    Young Activist’s Dictionary of Social Justice features vocabulary of change

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    Tracy Taylor’s Murray Out of Water is thoughtful exploration of identity

    May 28, 2024

    Emotional intelligence central to Jenn Rees’ Puzzleheart

    August 9, 2023

    Year My Life Went Down the Toilet is authentic contemporary MG

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    Pride Month: YA books embrace LGBTQ+ themes

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    Roselle Lim’s Celestial Banquet is a tasty YA adventure

    A young noodle chef competes in a cutthroat cooking competition for the gods in Celestial Banquet, by Roselle Lim.

    June 5, 2025

    Shea Ernshaw’s The Beautiful Maddening is atmospheric YA

    June 4, 2025

    Ann Liang’s Never Thought I’d End Up Here is cute YA rom-com

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    Lauryn Hamilton Murray’s Heir of Storms is exciting YA fantasy debut

    June 2, 2025

    Nova Ren Suma’s Wake the Wild Creatures has raw, dreamlike quality

    MIDDLE GRADE

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    Kelly Yang returns to Front Desk series with Chef’s Secret

    Author Kelly Yang returns to the world of Front Desk with Chef’s Secret, the sixth book in the series and the first one told from Jason’s point of view.

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    Biggest, baddest, smelliest, plants take center stage in Fantastic Flora

    May 30, 2025

    The Village Beyond the Mist is atmospheric MG fantasy

    May 29, 2025

    Growing Home is delightful offering from Beth Ferry & The Fan Brothers

    May 20, 2025

    Shaun Tan’s excellent The Arrival now available in paperback

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    June 7, 2025

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    Never Take Your Rhino on a Plane is laugh-out-loud funny

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    The Music Inside Us is beautiful biography of cellist Yo-Yo Ma

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    Henry Cole’s Mighty: The Story of an Oak Tree Ecosystem is stunning

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    Great Expectations: A BabyLit® Occupations Primer is charming board book

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    Sian Ann Bessey’s Time Traveler’s Masquerade is compelling romance

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    March 4, 2025

    Sarah M. Eden’s Tides of Time is enjoyable romance

    January 10, 2025

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    November 13, 2024

    Tirzah Price’s In Want of a Suspect is fun Lizzie & Darcy mystery

    November 9, 2024

    Much Ado About Margaret is OK Regency romance

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