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    October 13, 2025

    The Invincible List of Lani Li has moments of magic

    ages 4 & up
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    What’s That Building? is interactive look at architecture

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    To Activate Space Portal, Lift Here will make kids laugh

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    October 10, 2025

    Elizabeth Lowham’s Sonnets and Serpents is fine slow-burn fantasy

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    Lynne Kelly’s Three Blue Hearts is authentic middle grade

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    October 9, 2025

    The Tomorrow Tree is visually stunning nonfiction picture book

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    October 10, 2025

    Elizabeth Lowham’s Sonnets and Serpents is fine slow-burn fantasy

    A princess sets out to find her lost love and ends up bound to an academic she can’t stand in Sonnets and Serpents, by Elizabeth Lowham.

    October 3, 2025

    King Arthur’s Sweet & Salty is great cookbook for tweens and teens

    October 2, 2025

    Jennifer E. Archer explores grief, love in Into the Deep Blue

    October 1, 2025

    Mary E. Roach’s Seven for a Secret is intense YA mystery-thriller

    September 30, 2025

    All the Way Around the Sun is thoughtful contemporary YA

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    October 13, 2025

    The Invincible List of Lani Li has moments of magic

    A challenge from her little brother and a Chinese fable inspire a girl to embrace bravery on her band trip to London in The Invincible List of Lani Li.

    October 10, 2025

    Lynne Kelly’s Three Blue Hearts is authentic middle grade

    October 7, 2025

    Jennifer L. Holm’s Outside is great choice for independent reading

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    Holly Goldberg Sloan’s Finding Lost is hopeful middle grade

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    October 13, 2025

    What’s That Building? is interactive look at architecture

    Dive into design and architecture in What’s That Building?: An Architectural Guessing Game, by Rebecca Donnelly and Jocelyn Cho.

    October 11, 2025

    To Activate Space Portal, Lift Here will make kids laugh

    October 9, 2025

    The Tomorrow Tree is visually stunning nonfiction picture book

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    The Sacred Stone Camp honors water protectors’ fight against DAPL

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    October 8, 2025

    Tiffany Odekirk’s Winterset is entertaining enemies-to-lovers romance

    An unlikely ghost and a man seeking to make the most out of his life cross paths in Tiffany Odekirk’s new gothic romance, Winterset.

    September 7, 2025

    Sarah M. Eden’s Echoes of the Sea is time-traveling romance

    September 4, 2025

    Erin A. Craig’s A land So Wide is captivating adult fiction debut

    September 3, 2025

    Heather B. Moore’s Julia is excellent story of Julia Child

    September 3, 2025

    Bea Fitzgerald’s Girl, Goddess, Queen is page-turning YA romantasy

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    Elizabeth Lowham’s Sonnets and Serpents is fine slow-burn fantasy

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