Batchelder Award Honor Book School Library Journal Best of the Year Kirkus Best of the Year Booklist Editors' Choice Evanston Public Library's 101 Great Books for Kids Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best ABC Group Best Books for Young Readers "Hypnotizing...Provocative...Disarming"--The New York Times "Evocative and stirring...mesmerizing to read aloud."--The Wall Street Journal &#9733; "Visually striking...full of vivid language."--Publishers Weekly (starred) &#9733; "A rich anthology to understand and delight in Native traditions."--Booklist (starred) &#9733; "Begs to be read aloud."--Kirkus (starred) &#9733; "Impressive, handsome, and universally appealing."--Horn Book (starred) &#9733; "Breathtaking and simply beautiful."--School Library Journal (starred) &#9733; "The language sparkles and the tales beg to be read aloud."--School Library Connection (starred) "Visually arresting, captivating collection of traditional stories."--Shelf-Awareness "David Bowles' graceful translation renders this volume an excellent addition to any storytelling collection."--BCCB "One-of-a-kind...A collection that will appeal to children, but also to any lover and collector of books."--BookRiot A collection of stories from nations and cultures across our two continents-the Sea-Ringed World, as the Aztecs called it--from the Andes all the way up to Alaska. Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories.

The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas

Children's Books

Esperón, María García

Biographies

Lantern Paperbacks

The Boys in the Back Row

Now in Paperback—Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol—a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that—really, it's a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship, and their honest love and support for one another.\nThe Boys in the Back Row is an unabashed ode to friendship with hilariously flawed hijinks and geekiness galore!\n★ "[An] utter rejection of toxic masculinity." —Booklist, starred review\n★ "A touching, honest depiction of male friendship." —School Library Journal, starred review

Jung, Mike

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Lupe Wong Won't Dance

Fom Newbery Medalist, Donna Barba Higuera\nWinner of the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor 
Pura Belpré Honor Winner 
PNBA Award Winner 
Globe & Mail Best Children's Book of Year 
Booklist Editor's Choice\n"Higuera has knocked it out of the park."—Erin Entrada Kelly, New York Times Book Review\n"Heartfelt, funny and smeared with just the right touch of middle-school snottiness, this novel is a delight!"—Ron Charles, The Washington Post\n★ "A home run."—Publishers Weekly, starred review\n★ "A laugh-out-loud story about family, friendship, and the beauty in being true to yourself."—Booklist, starred review\nLupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues.\nShe's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy…like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much…like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons.\nLupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when the horror that is square dancing rears its head in gym? Obviously she's not gonna let that slide.

Higuera, Donna Barba

Arts, Music & Photography

NOW IN PAPERBACK! WINNER, AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD HONOR, MICHAL L. PRINTZ AWARD LONGLIST, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD TIME 10 Best YA and Children's Books of the Year NPR Best of the Year Shelf Awareness Best of the Year Publishers Weekly Big Indie Books of Fall Amazon Best Book of the Month American Indians in Youth Literature Best of the Year CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Books of the Year "Stirring.. Raw and moving."--TIME "Beautiful imagery and with words that soar and scald."--The Buffalo News "Easily one of the best books to be published in 2020. The kind of book bound to save lives."--LitHub "A powerful narrative about identity and belonging."--Paste Magazine &#9733; "Timely and important."--Booklist (starred) &#9733; "Searing yet dryly funny."--The Bulletin (starred) &#9733; "Exceptional."--Shelf-Awareness (starred) &#9733; "Captivating."--School Library Journal (starred) The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." In Apple (Skin to the Core), Eric Gansworth tells his story, the story of his family--of Onondaga among Tuscaroras--of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking.

Apple: (Skin to the Core)

Gansworth, Eric

Ellis loves popcorn. No, she REALLY loves popcorn. It's serious. So when her school and her dads ban all snack foods-- INCLUDING POPCORN--Ellis won't listen. But when she tries to quietly sneak her favorite salty snack, one kernel refuses to pop. LOUDLY. Soon, the kernel has sprouted a face, arms, and legs! He's alive, his name is Popcorn Bob, and he is NOT in a good mood. He is HANGRY. Will Ellis be able to keep Bob a secret until she can get rid of him? (And after a few days with him, will she still want to?) A Junior Library Guild Selection "Comedic hijinks and unlikely friendship ensue...an amusing series starter that's just right for young fans of the absurd." --Publishers Weekly "A bowl of crunchy fun." --Booklist "For readers with a taste for the bizarre." --Kirkus Reviews

Popcorn Bob (Popcorn Bob, 1)

Rinck, Maranke

Literature & Fiction

Popcorn Bob 2: The Popcorn Spy

Ellis is now best friends with a grumpy, talking popcorn kernel. Yes, REALLY! Together, they're secretly handing out popcorn to Ellis's classmates (since her school is now officially a 'Healthy School' - blech), and everything is great. Bob is even learning how to control his hanger (kind of). But Ellis and Bob are in danger - visitors from the possibly nefarious Popcorn & Co. are following them, and it's clear they're after Bob! Will Ellis be able to keep Bob out of their clutches?

The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst

NOW IN PAPERBACK! "Splendidly entertaining." --Kirkus Reviews &#9733; "A delightfully quirky story with nuance, depth, and a colorful cast of characters, this book begs for multiple readings." --School Library Journal (starred) &#9733; "Like a middle-grade version of Terry Pratchett's Discworld--fantasy adventure steeped in humor, with a touch of satire, and set in a whimsical secondary world of the highest order." --Booklist (starred) "The tale crescendos to an uplifting close that promotes honesty, bravery, and self-confidence." --Publishers Weekly Twelve-year-old Esther Mettlestone-Staranise loves reading books and writing stories but is troubled by low self-esteem and recurring bad dreams. When she starts the year at boarding school in earnest, she quickly notices something isn't quite right. Her two best friends are mysteriously missing. There are rumors her new teacher is secretly an actual ogre. And the scenic mountains of her quaint little town are teeming with Shadow Mages and danger. As secrets and dangers escalate, Esther must find the answers to several puzzles. Why is her teacher behaving so oddly? Which of Esther's classmates is the Spellbinder, and can they really protect the school from gathering hordes of Shadow Mages? Could the Stolen Prince of Cloudburst be connected? How can Esther - who is not talented like her sisters, nor an adventurer like her cousin, but just Esther - save her family, her school and possibly her entire world?

The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst (Kingdoms and Empires)

MORIARTY, Jaclyn

Action & Adventure

Middletown

NOW IN PAPERBACK! New England Book Awards Finalist Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best ABC Group Best Books for Young Readers Queer coming-of-age middle-grade novel about trust, forgiveness, and self-discovery. "Original, funny, rueful, and most of all, real, Middletown is an engrossing tale told by a deeply likeable tough cookie." - Emma Donoghue, award-winning author of Room Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters, and they are also the only family each can count on. Their dad has long been out of the picture, and their mom lives at the mercy of her next drink. When their mom lands herself in enforced rehab, Anna and Eli are left to fend for themselves. With no legal guardian to keep them out of foster care, they take matters into their own hands: Anna masquerades as Aunt Lisa, and together she and Eli hoard whatever money they can find. But their plans begin to unravel as quickly as they were made, and they are always way too close to getting caught. Eli and Anna have each gotten used to telling lies as a means of survival, but as they navigate a world without their mother, they must learn how to accept help, and let other people in. Sarah Moon has crafted a thoughtful portrait of the Queer middle-grade experience.

Teen & Young Adult

MOON, Sarah

High Spirits

Pura Belpré Honor Book &nbsp; BEST OF THE YEAR Chicago Review of Books · Kirkus · Los Angeles Public Library &nbsp; Publishers Weekly Flying Start &nbsp; High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez. &nbsp; It is a book centered on one extended family - the Beléns - across multiple generations. &nbsp; It is set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa - and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights too. &nbsp; It is told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical - and its stories explore machismo, mental health, family, and identity. &nbsp; But most of all, High Spirits represents the first book from Camille Gomera-Tavarez, who takes her place as one of the most extraordinary new voices to emerge in years. &nbsp; For fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Sandra Cisneros, Angie Cruz, and Yaa Gyasi &nbsp; &nbsp; P R A I S E &nbsp; &#9733; "Authentic and immersive...A labor of love imbued with dedication to family." --Kirkus (starred) &nbsp; &#9733; "Deeply personal and relatable. Steeped in nostalgia and harsh but fierce love, this is a memorable family saga in its own right." --Booklist (starred) &nbsp; &#9733; "Full of vivid and poetic imagery... settings worthy of drinking in, and thematic material ripe for contemplation about identity, intergenerational memory, and patriarchy and toxic masculinity, Gomera-Tavarez's soulfully crafted debut is a sensitive, intrinsically feminist work." --Publishers Weekly (starred) &nbsp; "A magical and unflinching look at the Dominican Diaspora." --Dominican Writers Association

Gomera-Tavarez, Camille

The Lost Ryu

NOW ON PAPERBACK! BEST OF THE YEAR: Chicago Public Library · Kids' Indie Next List A story of multigenerational pain, magic, and the lengths to which we'll go to protect the people we love. Kohei Fujiwara has never seen a big ryu&#772; in real life. Those dragons all disappeared from Japan after World War II, and twenty years later, they've become the stuff of legend. Their smaller cousins, who can fit in your palm, are all that remain. And Kohei loves his ryu&#772;, Yuharu, but... ...Kohei has a memory of the big ryu&#772;. He knows that's impossible, but still, it's there, in his mind. In it, he can see his grandpa - Ojiisan - gazing up at the big ryu&#772; with what looks to Kohei like total and absolute wonder. When Kohei was little, he dreamed he'd go on a grand quest to bring the big ryu&#772; back, to get Ojiisan to smile again. But now, Ojiisan is really, really sick. And Kohei is running out of time. Kohei needs to find the big ryu&#772; now, before it's too late. With the help of Isolde, his new half-Jewish, half-Japanese neighbor; and Isolde's Yiddish-speaking dragon, Cheshire; he thinks he can do it. Maybe. He doesn't have a choice. P R A I S E &#9733; "A thought-provoking, magical middle-grade journey that explores sacrifices, faith in allies and the resilient hopefulness of a child. A boy, his new friend and their dragons travel across Japan in search of a giant dragon they believe may heal his grandfather in this hopeful and stirring middle-grade debut." --Shelf-Awareness (starred) "A spellbinding mix of fantasy and alternate history that explores themes of generational trauma, resilience, and family love. Recommended." --School Library Journal "A beautiful--though complex--exploration of generational trauma." --Kirkus "Cohen interweaves Japanese dragon imagery, history, and post-war culture in a story that muses on the legacies of emotion and family experiences in shaping identity after war. She blends her fantastical imagery with historical fact and realism, bringing readers commentary and questions on cultural identity, racism, friendship, and political activism." --Horn Book "Kohei and Isolde are a dynamic pair, with contrasting skills and such different life experiences that they are constantly challenging and learning from each other. The thread of quiet agony that runs under the misery of Kohei's mother and the anger of his grandfather hints at the war and its devastating ripples across generations." --BCCB "Emi Watanabe Cohen does an admirable job of breathing life into this story of multicultural identity, family secrets, the effect of guilt on family relationships, forgiveness, and hope for the future." --School Library Connection "Gentle, humorous, and touching. A fantasy novel whose full-blooded mythology helps to emphasize the humanity of its characters." --Foreword &nbsp;

Watanabe Cohen, Emi

Animals

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