With topics from intruding dinosaurs to the harmful effects of cyber bullying, we have a variety of terrific new books releasing in stores today!
Kids between ages 3 and 5 will have an opportunity for lots of laughs:
- Ten Pigs: An Epic Bath Adventure, written and illustrated by Derek Anderson, shows what happens when one little pig just wants a relaxing bubble bath and instead is surprised with nine other pigs squeezing into the tub!
- Audrey’s Tree House by Jenny Hughes, illustrated by Jonathan Bentley, offers a lesson about the struggle between independence and security when Audrey wants her own big-girl tree house but realizes being away from her family may not be as fun as she thought.
- Never Ask a Dinosaur to Dinner by Gareth Edwards, illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees, will help prepare your child for bed as a dinosaur comes to dinner, a shark wants to borrow a toothbrush, and more!
- Side by Side by Rachel Bright, illustrated by Debi Gliori, lets readers follow an adorable little mouseling on her search for a best friend through the Wintermouse Wood.
Kids ages 8 to 12 will have plenty of awesome books to choose from:
Big News! Emma is on the Air #1, by WNBC-TV reporter Ida Siegal, follows young Emma Perez as she makes her school radio debut, not only reporting the news but also solving the mystery of the worm in Javier’s burger along the way.- Alex and Ren are back to save the world from the ancient Egyptian spirits Alex’s mom accidentally released! In Amulet Keepers,book 2 in the New York Times best-sellingTombQuest,author Michael Northrop has the best friends traveling to London to help stop a powerful Death Walker from destroying the city.
- Graceful by Wendy Mass is a spin-off of the bestselling Willow Falls series, this time following Grace, who has powers that alter people’s fates (as well as produce mass amounts of pizza)!
Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures by Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pearce takes readers into another—very magical—world where young Pip is spending her summer at the Cloverton Clinic for Magical Creatures following a unicorn-incident at her school. Adventures of mystery and magic ensue!- Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel (Tyme #1) by Megan Morrison offers another twist on the hair-centered fairy tale—this one involving an evil witch, a thief named Jack, and an adventure beyond what she’d ever dreamed of in her tower.
- If you’re reading The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig by Emer Stamp, be ready for hours of hysterical laughs. Pig writes and draws all about his life on the farm—delicious slop, his best friend Duck…and the evil chickens ready to attack!
- Woof by Spencer Quinn is told through the eyes (and with the voice) of an unlikely main character—the dog Bowser! Bowser uses his keen sense of smell to work with his owner Birdie and solve a mystery brewing in the Louisiana swamps.
- The Way Home Looks Now by Wendy Wan Shang centers on 12-year-old Peter Lee whose baseball-loving family is torn apart by a family tragedy, offering a poignant story ultimately about family and healing.
In Beauty Queens,book 7 of the New York Times bestselling Whatever After series by Sarah Mlynowski, sibling duo Abby and Jonah are sucked into their magic mirror and thrown right into the Beauty and Beast story, though of course they accidentally mess the story up and must fix their mistakes before it’s too late!- Cleopatra In Space #2: The Thief and the Sword by Mike Maihack offers amazingly-drawn cinematic paneling that makes heroine Cleo’s intergalactic adventure that much more exciting and action-packed.
- In Kristy’s Great Idea (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphix #1), by Ann M. Martin, illustrator Raina Telgemeier brings the classic Baby-Sitters Club books into the world of the graphic novel (in full color) where she perfectly captures all the drama and humor of the novel with superb original art.
This month teen readers have a range of very realistic of very unrealistic choices for reading:
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough turns mystic forces Love and Death into characters who play with Henry and Flora, a white boy and African-American girl living in 1920s Seattle, in the next round of their “game.” The question is—who will win?- Rook by award-winning author Sharon Cameron offers daring intrigue, delicious romance, and spine-tingling suspense in a post-apocalyptic Paris.
- Lying Out Loud by Kody Keplinger is a companion novel to the best-selling book The DUFF, which has now been adapted into a major motion-picture. LOL tells the story of “excellent liar” Sonny Ardmore as she navigates high school with her best friend Amy and new-kid nemesis Ryder.
- Backlash by award-winning columnist Sarah Darer Littman tackles cyberbullying in a story about how online life collides with real life and all of the backlash that can follow, based on much of Littman’s own reporting.
