Category: Children + YA
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This House is So Special to Me! by Katelyn Starceski: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Sometimes change happens. As a child, moving can seem so sudden or scary. It is always nice to have the memories, but just remember your family will always be there no matter what change comes your way. What To Expect: This is a children’s book about the emotional impact…
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Enola Holmes – The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer: Content Warnings
Synopsis: When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared—on her 14th birthday nonetheless—she knows she alone can find her. Disguising herself as a grieving widow, Enola sets out to the heart of London to uncover her mother’s whereabouts—but not even the last…
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The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation. But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a…
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The Secret of the Swamp King by Jonathan Rogers: Content Warnings
Synopsis: As book two opens, Aidan is living in the court of King Darrow. He has become best friends with Darrow’s son Steren, and he enjoys great favor among the courtiers. But King Darrow’s suspicion is growing and his insecurity causes him to hate the young man who saved his…
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Lepunia by Kevin T. Ford: Content Warnings
Synopsis: It was Founding Day, and the jackrabbits of Lepunia were busy preparing for the centennial celebration. For one of these, Jackson Swift, a lifelong dream of becoming a Galloper would finally be realized. As a leveret, he had dreamed of following in the pawsteps of his grandfather, the renowned…
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The Creator’s Kids by Nicole Helm: Content Warnings
Synopsis: The Creator’s Kids is an interactive book that invites young children to embody the characteristics of their favorite Biblical heroes and heroines, becoming more like Jesus. Helping parents, as role models, intentionally relate characteristics they are actively working on with their child to values in the Bible in a fun…
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The Wonderful Wandering Wagon by Jen Roberson: Content Warnings
Synopsis: Are cats good at business? The Bishops are normal children, living their life on Purvas, working in their parent’s shop, completely unaware of the magical secrets their grandfather’s grey fluffy cat holds. But when Honor decides to take them all on a journey will they be able to work…
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The Deadlands: Hunted by Skye Melki-Wegner: Content Warnings
Synopsis: When the Fallen Star struck, it brought death and despair, ash and toxic rain. But some dinosaurs survived . . . and were changed. Their minds grew alert. They learned to speak. To dream. To wage war. As the two remaining dinosaur kingdoms fight for territory, Eleri, the disgraced son of…
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Gleanings by Neal Shusterman: Content Warnings
Synopsis: There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death with Scythes as the living instruments of population control. Neal Shusterman—along…
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Mammoth by Brian McBride: Content Warnings
Synopsis: After the death of his father, misfit and aspiring paleontologist Tommy Rhodes seeks refuge in the ramshackle lighthouse that stands guard over the city of Mammoth, Washington. Left in disarray by years of bad weather, it’s the perfect place for Tommy to hide from everything that’s gone wrong with…
