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Wolf Club

Bird, James, 1979-,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, Thirteen-year-old Ojibwe Okan Thibault receives a vision that he should help protect a white wolf that was spotted in the Sawtooth Mountains near his home. He's also directed to join with two other kids from school he barely knows--a girl nicknamed Skunk because of a body odor issue, and a bully named Moose. When the three are sent to detention together, they form the Wolf Club and set out into the woods to find the wolf and find themselves changed by the experience.
Date Published:2025

Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, Thirteen-year-old Ojibwe Okan Thibault receives a vision that he should help protect a white wolf that was spotted in the Sawtooth Mountains near his home. He's also directed to join with two other kids from school he barely knows--a girl nicknamed Skunk because of a body odor issue, and a bully named Moose. When the three are sent to detention together, they form the Wolf Club and set out into the woods to find the wolf and find themselves changed by the experience.

Date Published:2025

What if you fall for me first?

Miller, G. F., 1977-,


Kirkus Review, Thirteen-year-old Sofia wants to impress her crush Mark Chen and ditch her goody-two-shoes image, so she asks for help from cool guy classmate, Holden, a total player. He offers to teach her what it takes to be cool, if she agrees to post the transformation on his social media account to get him followers. However, the plan takes an unexpected turn.
Date Published:2025

This cookie will change your life

Ellis, Ann Dee,


Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Sixth grade is over and classmates Tilly Fox, Mateo Ruiz, Eloise Zussman, Jada Rocaberte, and Herschel Edwards run into each other at the local library. The kids each struggle with serious issues at home and need something to distract them. They decide to start a cookie-making business to raise money and the kids become close friends until the problems in their daily lives threaten to destroy everything they've built.
Date Published:2025

Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Sixth grade is over and classmates Tilly Fox, Mateo Ruiz, Eloise Zussman, Jada Rocaberte, and Herschel Edwards run into each other at the local library. The kids each struggle with serious issues at home and need something to distract them. They decide to start a cookie-making business to raise money and the kids become close friends until the problems in their daily lives threaten to destroy everything they've built.

Date Published:2025

A potion, a powder, a little bit of magic : Or, like lightning in an umbrella storm /

Stead, Philip Christian,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal Starred, A plucky goat keeper named Bernadette embarks on a chaotic quest to retrieve a runaway goat, and with help from a forgetful wizard and a Boat That Does Not Grant Wishes, in an out-of-order tale narrated by an author scrambling to finish it.
Date Published:2026

On thin ice

Kim, Jessica, 1980-,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Twelve-year-old fraternal twins Phoebe and Dex Bae used to be close, but since the death of their father from cancer, they have each delved into their respective pursuits of ice skating and hockey, and rarely talk about their grief. Their comfortable avoidance is disrupted when Phoebe's skating partner Pete sustains a season-ending injury just two months before a competition, and goalie Dex loses his spot on the team to a new member. With both kids floundering, their mother suggests Dex take Pete's spot, and though the twins experience bumps in the road, they eventually find their way back to one another and learn to lean on each other as they confront the sadness permeating their lives.
Date Published:2026

Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Twelve-year-old fraternal twins Phoebe and Dex Bae used to be close, but since the death of their father from cancer, they have each delved into their respective pursuits of ice skating and hockey, and rarely talk about their grief. Their comfortable avoidance is disrupted when Phoebe's skating partner Pete sustains a season-ending injury just two months before a competition, and goalie Dex loses his spot on the team to a new member. With both kids floundering, their mother suggests Dex take Pete's spot, and though the twins experience bumps in the road, they eventually find their way back to one another and learn to lean on each other as they confront the sadness permeating their lives.

Date Published:2026

No slam dunk

Lupica, Mike,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates, In Annapolis, Maryland, seventh-grader Wes is a good teammate but this basketball season has been challenging because of his ball hog teammate Dinero, who is determined to steal the spotlight, and Wes's army veteran father who is suffering from PTSD.
Date Published:2019

Mystery royale / Mystery Royale #1 /

Cavalancia, Kaitlyn,


Named in the will of a wealthy man as potential beneficiaries, a group of teenagers must solve a murder to win the magical inheritance.
Date Published:2025

Mystery James digs her own grave

Russell, Ally,


Series numbering from spine. Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Thirteen-year-old Mystery James, a girl raised in a funeral home after being abandoned in a cemetery, senses spirits through smell and vision, but when a priceless heirloom vanishes from her family's funeral business, she devotes herself to uncover the truth about the theft and prove her aunt's innocence. She battles a sleep-paralysis demon, confronts a local patriarch, and evades a graverobber as she pieces together the clues to her family's legacy. With her home's reputation and survival on the line, Mystery must prove her supernatural instincts can solve more than ghostly whispers.
Date Published:2025

Series numbering from spine. Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Thirteen-year-old Mystery James, a girl raised in a funeral home after being abandoned in a cemetery, senses spirits through smell and vision, but when a priceless heirloom vanishes from her family's funeral business, she devotes herself to uncover the truth about the theft and prove her aunt's innocence. She battles a sleep-paralysis demon, confronts a local patriarch, and evades a graverobber as she pieces together the clues to her family's legacy. With her home's reputation and survival on the line, Mystery must prove her supernatural instincts can solve more than ghostly whispers.

Date Published:2025

Girls of dark divine

Woods, E. V.,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Emberlyn is a member of the legendary ballet theatre of New Kora, but what the audience doesn't know is that behind the ballerinas' beauty and grace lies a dark secret. A curse has bound the girls to the show's mastermind, Malcolm, who controls their every move through magic, and the commands don't stop when the curtain comes down. Each dancer is destined to turn to dust once the curse consumes her, and Emberlyn is desperate to free herself and her fellow dancers from this cruel fate. When the troupe is invited to perform in the glitzy city of Parlizia, Emberlyn meets an elusive boy made of shadows with a mysterious connection to the girls, and they join forces to uncover the truth behind the curse and how to escape their wicked nightmare. But Emberlyn soon discovers that the cost of freedom might come at much too high a price.
Date Published:2025

Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, Emberlyn is a member of the legendary ballet theatre of New Kora, but what the audience doesn't know is that behind the ballerinas' beauty and grace lies a dark secret. A curse has bound the girls to the show's mastermind, Malcolm, who controls their every move through magic, and the commands don't stop when the curtain comes down. Each dancer is destined to turn to dust once the curse consumes her, and Emberlyn is desperate to free herself and her fellow dancers from this cruel fate. When the troupe is invited to perform in the glitzy city of Parlizia, Emberlyn meets an elusive boy made of shadows with a mysterious connection to the girls, and they join forces to uncover the truth behind the curse and how to escape their wicked nightmare. But Emberlyn soon discovers that the cost of freedom might come at much too high a price.

Date Published:2025

Famous anonymous

Baden, Morgan,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, Harper, Sophie, Gus, and Luke are neighbors and have known each other their whole lives. They used to be best friends, but now that they are older, things are just awkward between them. When their parents leave them home together one night, the four kids decide to throw on some costumes and make a funny video. Harper posts it online and the video goes viral, but no one can see who they are in the video, and they quickly realize that if they want to keep making content, they have to remain anonymous. But as their popularity begins to grow, the four friends must decide how far they are willing to go to maintain their followers.
Date Published:2026

Booklist, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, Harper, Sophie, Gus, and Luke are neighbors and have known each other their whole lives. They used to be best friends, but now that they are older, things are just awkward between them. When their parents leave them home together one night, the four kids decide to throw on some costumes and make a funny video. Harper posts it online and the video goes viral, but no one can see who they are in the video, and they quickly realize that if they want to keep making content, they have to remain anonymous. But as their popularity begins to grow, the four friends must decide how far they are willing to go to maintain their followers.

Date Published:2026

Beth is dead

Bernet, Katie,


"Ages 12 up"--Jacket flap. School Library Journal, November 2025. Pub Weekly, October 2025. Kirkus Starred, November 2025. Booklist, December 2025. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), November 2025. "Told in multiple perspectives, the March sisters discover Beth's body in the woods and work together to identify her killer, until they start to suspect each other"--Publisher.
Date Published:2026

Cranium : competicus, laughicus, shineus


Title from container. Includes 756 red apple cards, 252 green apple cards, 1 card trays, quick play rules. Play time: less than 30 min. Be the first team to move clockwise around the board and into Cranium Central, then complete one final activity for the win!
Date Published:1998

Rummikub : Rummy


For 2 to 4 players.Object of the game: Be the first player to eliminate all the tiles from your rack by forming them into sets of runs and gourps. Try to keep as few points in your hand as possible. At the start of the game, you decide how many points to reach to end the game.
Date Published:1998

You are now old enough to hear this

Starmer, Aaron, 1976-,


Booklist Starred Reviews, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, Twelve-year-old Roman uncovers the secret family lore explaining his late grandpa's missing toe, which takes him on an extraordinary adventure tied to his family's history.
Date Published:2026

Yoli's favorite things

Santana, Patricia,


Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, In 1967, twelve-year-old Yolanda SahagÃºn lives with her strict Mexican immigrant parents and her eight siblings in San Diego, California. Yoli wants to become a nun when she gets older, and she worries about her draft-eligible big brother as the Vietnam War rages. When her brother is drafted, her faith is tested, so Yoli makes a pact with God to protect him even if it means giving up something important.
Date Published:2025

Booklist, Kirkus Review, School Library Journal, In 1967, twelve-year-old Yolanda SahagÃºn lives with her strict Mexican immigrant parents and her eight siblings in San Diego, California. Yoli wants to become a nun when she gets older, and she worries about her draft-eligible big brother as the Vietnam War rages. When her brother is drafted, her faith is tested, so Yoli makes a pact with God to protect him even if it means giving up something important.

Date Published:2025

The winter of the dollhouse

Schlitz, Laura Amy,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide Starred, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, Tiph is a lonely girl with two younger stepsiblings who's frequently lauded by her stepmother because she doesn't cause any trouble. Greta is a doll who lives in a store window and desperately wants to be bought--preferably by the sweet young girl Tiph who looks at her in the window--and have a dollhouse of her own. When Tiph helps a frail, elderly woman named Szilvia, they form a friendship and Tiph begins doing small chores for her. Szilvia is restoring an antique dollhouse her father built for her and purchases a Little Red Riding Hood doll as part of her project. Tiph steals Greta from the store and hides her at Szilvia's, where the dolls eventually become friends and have grand adventures. A series of events cause Tiph to confront her mistake and make amends.
Date Published:2025

Booklist, Horn Book Guide Starred, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, Tiph is a lonely girl with two younger stepsiblings who's frequently lauded by her stepmother because she doesn't cause any trouble. Greta is a doll who lives in a store window and desperately wants to be bought--preferably by the sweet young girl Tiph who looks at her in the window--and have a dollhouse of her own. When Tiph helps a frail, elderly woman named Szilvia, they form a friendship and Tiph begins doing small chores for her. Szilvia is restoring an antique dollhouse her father built for her and purchases a Little Red Riding Hood doll as part of her project. Tiph steals Greta from the store and hides her at Szilvia's, where the dolls eventually become friends and have grand adventures. A series of events cause Tiph to confront her mistake and make amends.

Date Published:2025

Wilderness hacks

Brorsen, Joslin,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, Twelve-year-old Sadie Hahn will do just about anything to cheer up her nine-year-old autistic brother, Silas who is struggling after the death of their father--including audition for a contest with with his favorite YouTube channel "Rad Wilderness," hosted by thirteen-year-old Radley Shaw. When Sadie wins, she's happy Silas will get to meet his hero, but soon becomes suspicious that Radley is putting on an act. During their filmed and staged trip down the Colorado River, an earthquake strikes and Radley and Sadie become stranded and find themselves in real danger. Her father having taught her real survival skills, Sadie will need to get over her resentment and work with Radley to stay alive.
Date Published:2026

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly Starred, School Library Journal, Twelve-year-old Sadie Hahn will do just about anything to cheer up her nine-year-old autistic brother, Silas who is struggling after the death of their father--including audition for a contest with with his favorite YouTube channel "Rad Wilderness," hosted by thirteen-year-old Radley Shaw. When Sadie wins, she's happy Silas will get to meet his hero, but soon becomes suspicious that Radley is putting on an act. During their filmed and staged trip down the Colorado River, an earthquake strikes and Radley and Sadie become stranded and find themselves in real danger. Her father having taught her real survival skills, Sadie will need to get over her resentment and work with Radley to stay alive.

Date Published:2026

Weird sad and silent

McGhee, Alison, 1960-,


Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Ever since Daisy's scary experiences with her mother's ex-boyfriend, she has developed a habit of counting when she's feeling stressed and making herself invisible around her classmates. But a new classmate named Austin changes everything when he befriends her and she begins opening up about the bullying she's experiencing and her dream of adopting a stray, one-eared cat named Rumble Paws. As she gains confidence in herself, she also learns a big secret about one of her bullies, and she learns to make choices about the kind of person she wants to be.
Date Published:2025

Booklist, Horn Book Guide, Kirkus Reviews Starred, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Ever since Daisy's scary experiences with her mother's ex-boyfriend, she has developed a habit of counting when she's feeling stressed and making herself invisible around her classmates. But a new classmate named Austin changes everything when he befriends her and she begins opening up about the bullying she's experiencing and her dream of adopting a stray, one-eared cat named Rumble Paws. As she gains confidence in herself, she also learns a big secret about one of her bullies, and she learns to make choices about the kind of person she wants to be.

Date Published:2025

The tontine caper

Salerni, Dianne K.,


Junior Library Guild. Eleven-year-old Nico lives as an unpaid servent and virtual prisoner at the Precipice Inn in the Pocono Mountains, whose innkeeper he believes killed his artist grandfather--until the surviving members of a tontine check in for a meeting.
Date Published:2025

Three blue hearts

Kelly, Lynne,


Max can't seem to escape the big, looming shadow of his politician dad. But for the next few months, Max and his mom are going away to a quiet Texas beach town where Max can be someone else. Someone who doesn't make dumb mistakes that embarrass his father--someone who knows how to be strong. He stumbles on his fresh start right away, when he finds an injured octopus washed up onshore after a storm. With the help of a local wildlife center and a couple of new friends, Max rescues the octopus--who they name Ursula--and vows to take care of her until she's ready to return to the sea. But as their bond deepens and Max makes unexpected discoveries that turn his summer upside down, Max's true strength will be put to the test. Can he keep his promise after all?
Date Published:2025

Max can't seem to escape the big, looming shadow of his politician dad. But for the next few months, Max and his mom are going away to a quiet Texas beach town where Max can be someone else. Someone who doesn't make dumb mistakes that embarrass his father--someone who knows how to be strong. He stumbles on his fresh start right away, when he finds an injured octopus washed up onshore after a storm. With the help of a local wildlife center and a couple of new friends, Max rescues the octopus--who they name Ursula--and vows to take care of her until she's ready to return to the sea. But as their bond deepens and Max makes unexpected discoveries that turn his summer upside down, Max's true strength will be put to the test. Can he keep his promise after all?

Date Published:2025