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    June 27, 2025

    Curious Cases: True Crime for Kids is lots of fun

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    It’s Busy Down in the Woods Today is delightful search and find

    ages 10 & up
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    Explore Greek, Norse, and Igbo mythology with these MG books

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    Explore sea habitats in There’s an Ocean in This Book

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    Sunya Mara’s Embrace the Serpent is spellbinding romantic fantasy

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    The Wild Robot on the Island is beautiful picture book

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    June 23, 2025

    Molly Morris’ Rewind to Us is cute YA romance

    June 14, 2025

    You Are My Rainbow celebrates all kinds of families

    June 11, 2025

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

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    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

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    June 24, 2025

    Sunya Mara’s Embrace the Serpent is spellbinding romantic fantasy

    A young jeweler’s apprentice gets caught up in a fight to control kingdoms in Embrace the Serpent, by Sunya Mara.

    June 23, 2025

    Molly Morris’ Rewind to Us is cute YA romance

    June 16, 2025

    Claudia Gray’s Rushworth Family Plot puts Austen characters center stage

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    Kenneth Oppel’s Best of All Worlds is compelling YA

    June 13, 2025

    Ida B. Wells: Journalist, Advocate & Crusader for Justice is strong biography

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    June 27, 2025

    Curious Cases: True Crime for Kids is lots of fun

    Curious Cases: True Crime for Kids is exactly the type of book that mystery fans will be drawn to.

    June 26, 2025

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    Jessie Burton’s Hidden Treasure is memorable MG

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    Orris and Timble: Lost and Found is charming early chapter book

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    June 26, 2025

    It’s Busy Down in the Woods Today is delightful search and find

    See how the animals of Brown Bear Wood spend their days and search for more than 100 hidden items in It’s Busy Down in the Woods Today.

    June 25, 2025

    Explore sea habitats in There’s an Ocean in This Book

    June 24, 2025

    The Wild Robot on the Island is beautiful picture book

    June 23, 2025

    Making Light Bloom is beautiful story of Clara Driscoll and Tiffany lamps

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    Claudia Gray’s Rushworth Family Plot puts Austen characters center stage

    Amateur sleuths Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney must solve a murder involving the family of Edmund and Fanny Bertram in The Rushworth Family Plot, by Claudia Gray.

    June 10, 2025

    Lawyer and the Laundress is sweet historical romance

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    January 10, 2025

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