BOOK BLITZES
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4/15/24 New Titles 7&8
Louder than Hunger by John Shu, If he had been with me by Laura Nowling, What I Carry by Jennifer Longo, Clementine, and Danny Save the world (and each other) by Livia Blackburne, One of Us Is Back by Karen McManus, My life with the Walter boys by Ali Novak, Between Two Brothers by Crystal Allen, Once upon a climb by Jenifer Nielsen, The Enigma Girls by Candace Fleming
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4/8/24 Get out the vote! 5&6
Virginia Readers Choice
All He Knew by Helen Frost, City Spies by James Ponti, Coop Knows the Scoop by Taryn Souders, Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden, Race to the Bottom of the Earth by Rebecca E.F. Barone, Star Child by Ibi Aanu Zoboi, The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera, The Magical Imperfect by Chris Baron, The Mysterious Disappearance of Aiden S. (as told by his brother) by David Levithan, What Comes Next by Rob Buyea
4/1/24 New from Middle-Grade Magic 5&6
Listen to This by Jennifer Blecher, Friday Night Stage Lights by Rachele Alpine, Bird Brain by Joanne Levy, Each of Us A Universe by Jeanne Zulick, Bright by Brigit Young, The Shadow Prince by David Anthony Durham, Grimmworld, The Witch in the woods by Michael Brent Collings, Scurry by Mac Smith, Cardboard Kingdom series by Chad Sell, Race to the Truth, Exclusion and the Chinese American Story by Sarah-Soonling Blackburn
3/25/24 New Titles and a bit of Madness for March 5&6
Table Titans Club by Scott Kurtz, D&D Players Handbook, Misfits – The Royal Conundrum by Lisa Yee and illustrated by Dam Santat, Next Stop by Debbie Fong, I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964 by Lauren Tarshis, I Survived the Galveston Hurricane, 1900 by Lauren Tarshis, When March Went Mad by Seth Davis, The Final Four by Mike Kennedy, March Madness with commentary by John Wooden and Pete Newell, Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang, Hoops by Matt Tavares, No Slam Dunk by Mike Lupica, True Legend by Mike Lupica
3/18/24 Welcome back! 5&6
Ferris by Kate DiCamillo, Uprising by Jennifer Nielsen (and Once Upon a Climb), Coyote lost and found by Dan Gemeinhart, The Queen of Thieves – The Moonwind Mysteries(2) by Johan Rundberg, The Guardian Test – Legends of Lotus Island by Christina Soontorvat, The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly, Finally Heard by Kelly Yang, Summer at Squee by Andrea Wang, The Traitor’s Son by Pedro Urvi, Blue Stars by Kelka Magoon
3/4/24 Stock up for Spring Break 5&6
Summer and July by Paul Mosier, Over the Moon by Natalie Lloyd, Hilo, Rise of the Cat by Judd Winick, The Liars Society by Alyson Gerber, The Lion of Mars by Jennifer Holm, Take Back the Block by Chrystal Giles, The Sea in Winter by Christine Day, Saucy by Cynthia Kadohata, The Misfits, a royal conundrum by Lisa Yee and Dan Santat, Boys in the Back Row by Mike Jung
3/4/24 Spring Break Murder Mystery 7&8
When You Look Like Us by Pamela Harris, If You’re out there by Katy Loutzenhizer, Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi, Girl Stolen and Count the Bones by April Henry, A Forgery of Roses by Jessica Olson, Spin by Lamar Giles, Dead Girls don’t lie by Jennifer Shaw Wolf, The Ruinous Sweep by Tim Wynne-Jones, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk
2/26/24 Steampunk
The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel, Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve, The Fog Diver by Joel Ross, York, The Shadow Cypher by Laura Ruby, Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger, The League of Seven by Alan Gratz, The Glass Sentence by S. E. Grove, Secrets of the Dragon’s Tomb by Patrick Samphire, Steampunk Lego by Guy Himber
2/20/24 Historical Fiction 5&6
Mark of the Thief by Jennifer Nielsen, The Left Behinds by David Potter, The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander, The Great Trouble by Deborah Hopkinson, Dangerous Waters by Gregory Mone, The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell, Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk, White Bird by Erica Perl, Shadow of the Mountain by Margi Preus, The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani, Countdown by Deborah Wiles, Guts and Glory, World War II by Ben Thompson
2/12/24 New 7&8
The will of the many by James Islington, The shadow of what was lost by James Islington, Spin by Rebecca Caprara, If he had been with me by Laura Nowlin, What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez, You the story by Ruta Sepetys, Family Style by Thien Pham, Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu, Rez Ball by Byron Graves
2/12/24 New Titles 5&6
Slugfest by Gordan Korman, Alterations by Ray Xu, The World-famous Nine by Ben Guterson, Plotting the Stars, Moongarden by Michelle A. Barry, Elf Dog and Owl Head by Junyi Wu, The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman by Mari Lowe, Ruby lost and found by Christina Li, Eagle Drums by Nasugraq Rainey Hopson, Heroes by Alan Gratz, Amulet, book 9 by Kazu Kibuishi, Shipwrecked! by Martin W. Sandler, The most incredible basketball stories ever told by Hank Patton
2/6/24 Year of the Dragon! 5&6
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon – Grace Lin’s books, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Xhao, Alliana Girl of Dragons by Julie Abe, Anya, and the Dragon by Sofia Pasternak, Dragon Mountain series by Katie and Kevin Tsang, Seraphina by Rachel Hartman, Burn by Patrick Ness, The Wearle by Chris D’Lacey, City of Dragons: The Awakening Storm by Jaimal Yogis, The Clockwork Dragon, the sequel to The Lost Property Office by James R. Hannibal, The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis, Dragons, Gods & Spirits from Chinese Mythology by Tao Tao Liu Sanders
1/29/24 Are you ready for some football? Plus a new title 5&6
Big Tree by Brian Selznick, QB1 by Mike Lupica, The Walk on by John Feinstein, Game Changers by Mike Lupica, Unstoppable by Tim Green, The Football Girl by Thatcher Heldring, The Rivalry by John Feinstein, Lone Stars by Mike Lupica, Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson, Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald, Play Like a Girl by Misty Wilson (graphic), Legends of Football by Howard Bryant, Football and Philosophy (going deep) ed. Michael W. Austin, NFL 100, Forward by Peyton Manning
1/22/24 What is on the Wall? – Newbery Contenders 5&6
A first time for everything by Dan Santat, Mexikid by Pedro Martin, The Skull by Jon Klassen, The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nick Day, Chinese Menu by Grace Lin, Eb & Flow by Kelly Baptist, The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers, The many assassinations of Samir Seller of dreams by Daniel Nayeri, Alebrijes by Donna Barbra Higuera, Simon sort of says by Erin Bow, The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt, The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh
1/16/24 New for New Year! – 5&6
Everything you need to ace science in one big fat notebook by Michael Geisen, Where Are the Aliens by Stacy McAnulty, Enemies in the Orchard by Dana VanderLugt, What Happened to Rachel Riley by Claire Swinarski, The Dreamatics by Michele Cuevas, Grounded by Aisha Saeed, Huda Al-Marashi, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, S. K. Ali, Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi, No Place Like Home by James Bird, Four Eyes by Rex Ogle, Duel by Jessixa Bagley, The Moth Keeper by K. O’Neill, Wings of Fire – Winter Turning graphic
12/11/23 Books for Break 5&6
12/4/23 – Don’t judge me by my cover 5&6
11/20/23 – November New Titles 5&6
Our Divine Mischief by Hanna C. Howard, Buzzing by Samuel Sattin, Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew by Davaun Sanders, The Night Raven by Johan Rundberg, Hidden Truths by Elly Swartz, The Academy by T. Z. Layton, Sparkle by Lakita Wilson, Alebrijes by Donna Babra Higuera, Keeper of the Lost Cities – graphic by Shannon Messenger, Above the Trenches by Nathan Hale
11/20/23 November New Titles 7&8
Thin Air by Kellie M. Parker, Don’t Look Back by Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, This Golden State by Marit Weisenberg, Literally by Lucy Keating, The comic book Story of Basketball by Fred Van Lente and Joe Cooper, Take by Jennifer Bradbury, Gone Wolf by Amber McBride, Just a hat by S. Khubiar, Courage to Dream by Neal Shusterman and Andres Vera Martinez, Murtagh by Christopher Paolini
11/13/23 – Series – ously folks 5&6
Vanderbeekers by Karina Yan Glaser, The False Prince by Jennifer Neilsen, Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan, Land of Stories by Chris Colfer, Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger, Among the Hidden(Shadow Children) by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Pumpkin Falls Mysteries by Heather Vogel Frederick, A horse Named Sky, A wolf Called Wander, A Whale of the Wild by Rosanne Parry, The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, The Stolen prince of cloudburst by Jaclyn Moriarty
11/6/23 – Oldies but goodies, New titles 5&6
Coop knows the scoop by Taryn Souders, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey, Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan, Fish in a Tree by Linda Mullaly Hunt, Camo Girl by Kelka Magoon, Pop by Gordon Korman, Nothing Else but Miracles by Kate Albus
10/30/23 New Titles 5&6
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No brainer by Jeff Kinney, Nightmare King by Daka Hermon, Fall of the House of Tatterly by Shanna Miles, Select by Christie Matheson, Jawbreaker by Christina Wyman, Falling out of time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Treasure Island, Runaway Gold by Jewel Parker Rhodes, White Bird by R. J. Palacio, Remember Us by Jacqueline Woodson
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Jackaby by William Ritter, Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landry, Lockwood and Co. by Jonathan Stroud (Netflix)
The Summer I turned pretty by Jenny Han (Prime), Five Nights at Freddy’s by Scott Cawthon (video game and movie, Smoke and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (Netflix), School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (Netflix), Half Bad by Sally Green (Netflix, I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (movie), The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey
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Shake it off! Taylor Swift bio, Greeking Out by Kenny Curtis and Julian Hughes, The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day, Who was accused at the Salem Witch Trials – Tituba by Insha Fitzpatrick, Chinese Menu by Grace Lin, What it’s like to be a bird by David Allen Sibley, How Does Chocolate Taste on Everest by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe, How the new seven wonders of the world were built by Jiri Bartunek, Inspirational Stories for young achievers by Hayden Fox and Amazing Sports stories for kids by Leigh Jordyn
10/16/23 Halloween 5&6
The Secret Letters and The Ghostly Photos by Margaret Haddix, The Witchlings, The Golden Frog Games, and Ghost Squad by Claibel Ortega, City of Ghosts, Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab, Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Vampire Hunting and Witchcraft and Mayhem by Roseanne A. Brown, The Nest by Kenneth Oppel, Scritch Scratch, The Girl in White by Lindsay Currie, Ghost Girl by Ally Malinenko, The Skull by Jon Klassen, Ghost Book by Remy Lai, The Weirn Book by Svetlana Chmakova, Scarlett Hart, Monster Hunter by Marcus Sedgwick
10/2/23 New Titles 7&8
Robin Hood – Hacking, Heists & Flaming Arrows by Robert Muchamore, The Fire, the Water and Maudie McGinn by Sally J. Pla, Mascot by Charles Waters and Traci Sorrell, Girl Forgotten by April Henry, The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Secret of the Moon Conch by David Bowles, Blood Debts by Terry Benton-Walker, Once upon a broken heart by Stephanie Garber, Accountable by Dashka Slater, Impossible Escape by Steve Sheinkin, Punching Bag by Rex Ogle
9/26/23 You asked for it! – Books requested by students 5&6
Stuffed and Stuffed into Darkness by Liz Braswell (2 students)
Spirit Hunters – Island of Monsters by Ellen Oh
Baseball Genius series by Tim Green and Derek Jeter
Goddess Girls – Athena the Brain by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
The 47 people you’ll meet in Middle School by Kristin Maloney
The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
Warriors by Erin Hunter
Wild Robot protects by Peter Brown
Robin Hood by Robert Muchamore
Secrets of the Shadow Beasts by Diane Magras
9/18/23 New titles 5&6
The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass
Stuntboy: In-between time by Jason Reynolds
You are here: connecting flights ed. By Ellen Oh
The Umbrella House by Colleen Nelson
Mascot by Charles Waters and Traci Sorrell
The Lion of Lark-Hayes Manor by Aubrey Hartman
Tessa Miyata is No Hero by Julie Abe
No one leaves the castle by Christopher Healy
Things in the Basement by Nen Hatke (graphic novel)
The Awakening Storm, City of Dragons #1 by Jaimal Yogis (graphic novel)
9/11/23 The dog days of summer 5&6
The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggars, I, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak, Mountain Dog by Margarita Engle, A Dog’s Purpose and A Dog’s Journey by Bruce Cameron, Dog Squad by Chris Grabenstein, Marley & Me by John Grogan, Soldier Dog by Sam Angus, Shadow by Michael Morpurgo, Finding Gobi by Dion Leonard, Unlikely Friendships: Dog by Jennifer Holland
9/5/23 New Titles 5&6
Ellie Engle saves herself by Leah Johnson, Lei and the Fire Goddess by Malia Maunakea, Dust by Dusti Bowling, Abeni’s Song by P. Djeli Clark, Rewind by Lisa Graff, Tiger Daughter by Rebecca Lim, Greenwild by Pari Thomson, Not an easy win by Christal D. Giles, Simon sort of says by Erin Bow
8/28/23 The Best of Summer 5&6
The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt, The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh, Healer and Witch by Nancy Werlin, Once there was by Kiyash Monsef, 96 Miles by J. L Esplin, Treasure in the Lake – graphic by Jason Pammet