New Picture Books

Biscuit Loves the Library - Alyssa Satin Capucilli
On "Read to a Pet Day" at the library, Biscuit plays with story time puppets, visits with friends, and listens to recorded books before a librarian helps him discover his favorite activity of all.


Mister Bud Wears the Cone - Carter Goodrich
Mister Bud and Zorro have learned how to get along. They made it through Zorro's outfit. But now Mister Bud has to wear...the cone.


Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes - Eric Litwin
As he walks down the street, Pete the cat sings about his brand new white shoes as they change from red to blue to brown to wet.

Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes - Eric Litwin
Pete the cat wears his school shoes when visiting the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and more while singing his special song.


Hands & Hearts: With 15 Words in American Sign Language - Donna Jo Napoli
Highlights the bond between a mother and her child while providing a gentle introduction to sign language during their day at the beach.

Clara and Davie: The True Story of Young Clara Barton Founder of the American Red Cross - Patricia Polacco
Relates the story of the special relationship between young Clara Barton, who would one day establish the Red Cross, and her older brother Davie, including Davie's encouragement of Clara's loving, healing nature, and Clara's healing touch that saved Davie's life.

The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Peter Sis
A biography of French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

New Young Adult Titles

The Vanishing Season - Jodi Lynn Anderson
Girls started vanishing in the fall. For Maggie Larsen, the town of Gill Creek is only a stopgap before college and freedom. Until she meets Pauline and Liam. What starts as an uneventful year suddenly changes. Someone is killing teenaged girls, and the town reels from the tragedy. As Maggie's and Pauline's worlds collide and change around them, they will both experience love and loss. And by the end of the book, only one of them will survive.

Illusive - Emily Lloyd-Jones

After a vaccine accidentally creates superpowers in a small percentage of the population, seventeen-year-old Ciere, an illusionist, teams up with a group of fellow high-class, super-powered thieves to steal the vaccine's formula while staying one step ahead of mobsters and deadly government agents.


The Cracks in the Kingdom - Jaclyn Moriarty
Hoping to bring back her father and the other missing royals of Cello, Princess Ko gathers a group of teens, each with a special ability, including Elliot, whose forbidden communications with Madeleine may be the key to traveling across worlds.

The Shadow Hero - Gene Luen Yang
In the comics boom of the 1940s, a legend was born: the Green Turtle. He solved crimes and fought injustice just like the other comics characters. But this mysterious masked crusader was hiding something more than your run-of-the-mill secret identity: the Green Turtle was the first Asian American super hero. The comic had a short run before lapsing into obscurity, but Gene Luen Yang has revived this character in Shadow Hero, a new graphic novel that creates an origin story for the Green Turtle.

Fiction for Middle Grade Readers

The Night Gardener - Jonathan Auxier
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.



The Hangman's Revolution - W.A.R.P. Book Two - Eoin Colfer
FBI agent Chevie Savano escapes into the past to elude the secret police after they kill Charles Smart just as he is telling her of the WARP program, and she and Riley team up to find Colonel Clayton Box before he can launch missiles at the capitals of Europe.

New Kid - Tim Green
A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team.

The Glass Sentence - S.E. Grove
In 1891, in a world transformed by 1799's Great Disruption--when all of the continents were flung into different time periods--thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims and her friend Theo go in search of Sophia's uncle, Shadrack Elli, Boston's foremost cartologer, who has been kidnapped.

Children of the King - Sonya Hartnett
Cecily and Jeremy have been sent to live with their Uncle Peregrine in the English countryside, safe from the war, along with a young refugee named May. But when Cecily and May find two mysterious boys hiding in the ruins of a nearby castle, an extraordinary adventure begins.

Comics Squad: Recess! -
A collection of comics by a variety of authors about every kid's favorite school subject: recess.


The Desperate Adventures of Zeno & Alya - Jane Kelley
An orphaned African grey parrot who can speak 127 words. A girl so sick, she has forgotten what it means to try. Fate--and a banana nut muffin--bring them together. Will their shared encounter help them journey through storms inside and out? Will they lose their way, or will they find what really matters? Here is a story that will remind readers how navigating so many of life's desperate adventures requires friendship and, above all, hope.

Picture Books

My Teacher is a Monster! - Peter Brown
Bobby thinks his teacher, Ms. Kirby, is horrible, but when he sees her outside of school and they spend a day in the park together, he discovers she might not be so bad after all.


Picnic - John Burningham
Boy and Girl go out for a picnic and meet all sorts of animals along the way.


Cinderella: A Fashionable Tale - Steven Guarnaccia
Retells the classic fairy tale of the young servant girl who experiences a magical night and finally finds her prince. Features illustrations of apparel and accessories inspired by famous fashion designers.

The Bambino and Me - Zachary Hyman
George Henry Alexander is a huge fan of baseball. His favorite team is the New York Yankees and his favorite player is Babe Ruth. George plays baseball during his free time and he listens to the games on the radio with his dad. Everywhere he goes, he carries his Babe Ruth baseball card. On his birthday, George's parents surprise him with two tickets to watch the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees--his first real game! But his presents don't stop there. Uncle Alvin has sent him a baseball jersey and cap, but it's for the Boston Red Sox! Filled with horror, George tosses them aside, but his mother will not have any of that. He will wear them to the baseball game with his dad! What will happen at the game? Will George get to meet Babe Ruth while wearing the opposing team's jersey?

The Midnight Library - Kazuno Kohara
"Once there was a library that only opened at night. Step inside and meet the little librarian and her three assistant owls."-- Provided by publisher

Froodle - Antoinette Portis
One day, amidst the usual chirps, tweets, and caws, a little brown bird decides to try singing a new song and sets off an interesting reaction.

A Boy and a Jaguar - Alan Rabinowitz
The renowned cat conservationist reflects on his early childhood struggles with a speech disorder, describing how he only spoke fluently when he was communicating with animals and how he resolved at a young age to find his voice to be their advocate.

Almost an Animal Alphabet - Katie Viggers
A whimsical A to Z book which pictures an animal for each letter of the alphabet.

New Picture Books

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus - Jen Bryant
The story of "shy young Peter Mark Roget, [for whom] books were the best companions--and it wasn't long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn't write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important reference books of all time.

Mr. Ferris and His Wheel - Kathryn Gibbs Davis
Capturing an engineer's creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world's most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.

The Legend of Saint Nicholas - Anselm Grün
An introduction to the saint who is the inspiration for giving.

Manger - poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
There is a legend that describes how, at midnight on Christmas Eve, all creatures are granted the power of speech for one hour. In this rich collection, Lee Bennett Hopkins and a dozen other poets imagine what responses they might offer. The poems represent a diverse group of animals, but all come together with one singular purpose: celebrating the joy of the miraculous event.

Three Bears in a Boat - David Soman
Afraid to face their mother after breaking her beautiful blue seashell, three bears set out on an high seas adventure to try to find a replacement.

Thank You, God - J. Bradley Wigger
Offers readers of all ages and backgrounds the perfect chance to reflect on all the things that they have to be grateful for. It is a celebration of family and friends, of homes and food to share, and of the wonder of creation from the first light of day to the calm, peaceful night.

Music CDs

123s and ABCs (Ella Jenkins)
Throughout sixteen tracks, the woman known as the First Lady of Children's Music offers lessons on counting and the alphabet in multiple languages. Her joyful engagement and delight in music comes across in each performance.


25 Favorite Bible Songs! (Veggie Tales)
The gang from Veggie Tales put joy into the hearts of listeners with a collection featuring some of the most popular Bible songs including Keep You Walking; Jesus Loves Me; and Oh, No What We Gonna Do.


American Playground (Putumayo Kids)
This fun collection features classic American tunes that the whole family can sing along to.

Count, Add, Subtract! Fun with Math, Music, and Movement (Hap Palmer)
Hap Palmer has the gift of making learning fun, and setting it all to music. Hap combines hip songs and fun games to make addition and subtraction come alive for children. Uses a colorful variety of musical styles, including jazz, country, Latin, hip-hop and rock.

Disney Classics Collection - A magical collection of the most memorable Disney musical moments of all time, featuring music from iconic Disney films, TV classics, and the Disney parks.
Four CDs include:
Disney Modern Classics
Disney Television Classics
Disney Theme Park Classics
Disney Timeless Classics

Frozen - 2-Disc Deluxe Edition Soundtrack
Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Frozen" features eight original songs from Kristen Anderson-Lopez ("In Transit," "Winnie the Pooh") and Tony Award-winning songwriter Robert Lopez ("Avenue Q," "The Book of Mormon"), plus a phenomenal score by the composer of last year's Oscar-winning short "Paperman," Christophe Beck.

New Picture Books

The Handiest Things in the World - Andrew Clements
Celebrates in verse, accompanied by photographs, the many things hands can do.





Light in the Darkness: A Story About How Slaves Learned in Secret - Lesa Cline-Ransome
Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from
their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write in a pit school.

Elizabeth, Queen of the Seas - Lynne Cox
World-renowned swimmer and author Lynne Cox and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Brian Floca team up to bring us this inspiring story of an elephant seal who knew exactly where she belonged. Here is the incredible story of Elizabeth, a real-life elephant seal who made her home in the Avon River in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. When Elizabeth decides to stretch out across a two-lane road, the citizens worry she might get hurt or cause traffic accidents, so a group of volunteers tows her out to sea. But Elizabeth swims all the way back to Christchurch. The volunteers catch her again and again -- each time towing her farther, even hundreds of miles away -- but, still, Elizabeth finds her way back home. Includes back matter with information about elephant seals.

Weeds Find a Way - Cindy Jenson-Elliott
Describes some of the ways that weeds live and grow in the most hostile environments, such as a tangle of tree roots or a crack in the cellar of an old house, where other plants cannot thrive.

My Country Tis of Thee: How One Song Reveals the History of Civil Rights - Claire Rudolf Murphy
Explains how the song "My country, 'tis of thee" can be understood to go along with the expansion of civil rights in the United States.

My First Book of Chinese Words: An ABC Rhyming Book - Faye-Lynn Wu
Introduces Chinese language to preschool children in a gentle, playful way. The ABC structure provides a familiar framework that encourages fun and easy learning.

New Nonfiction - Graphic Format

Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood (Hazardous Tales series) - Nathan Hale
"World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively, this series is the best way to be introduced to some of the most well-known battles (and little-known secrets) of the infamous war."-- Provided by publisher

Survive! Inside the Human Body! - Gomdori Co. & Hyun-Dong Han
Vol. 1: The Digestive System
This lively, full-color science comic explores Phoebe's insides after she accidentally swallows a microscopic ship. The only problem? Dr. Brain (the ship's eccentric inventor) and Phoebe's friend Geo are on board! Geo and Dr. Brain must avoid danger at every turn--like hazardous stomach acid and feeding parasites. (Ew!) Will they escape? You've got a front row seat as they travel through Phoebe's esophagus, stomach, and intestines.

Vol 2: The Nervous System
In this volume, our heroes Geo and Dr. Brain face hostile white blood cells, Phoebe's powerful heartbeat, and a bruise that threatens to suck them out of the bloodstream and leave them stranded forever! As you follow their fast-paced comic adventure through Phoebe's blood, heart, and lungs, you'll learn about the human circulatory system.

Vol 3: The Circulatory System
When Geo and Dr. Brain find themselves inside Phoebe's brain, they must brave shocking electrical signals and navigate a maze of neurons and synapses. Will they dynamic duo finally escape? And what's the matter with Phoebe anyway? As you follow this up-close exploration of Phoebe's brain, you'll learn how the brain and nervous system work.

New Picture Books

The Monkey Goes Bananas - C.P. Bloom
Monkey, having spied a banana tree across the water, will stop at nothing to get a snack.

Goodnight Songs - Margaret Wise Brown
A previously unpublished collection of lyrics for twelve lullabies, illustrated by contemporary, award-winning artists Jonathan Bean, Carin Berger, Sophie Blackall, Linda Bleck, Renata Liwska, Christopher Silas Neal, Zachariah Ohora, Eric Puybaret, Sean Qualls, Isabel Roxas, Melissa Sweet, and Dan Yaccarino.

The Lion and the Bird - Marianne Dubuc
"A lion finds a wounded bird in his garden and decides to care for it through the winter. When spring arrives, the bird's flock returns. The bird goes off with its flock. Lion is sad. But autumn brings a wonderful surprise."-- Provided by publisher


The Hueys in The New Sweater - Oliver Jeffers
"One Huey wears a new sweater to be different from the other identical Hueys, only to have them decide to be different too--by wearing sweaters."-- Provided by publisher


The Hueys in It Wasn't Me - Oliver Jeffers
"Hueys may look the same, think the same, and even do the same things, but that
doesn't mean they can't disagree. The only problem is, they can't seem to agree on what they didn't agree on in the first place! Which ultimately leads to an even bigger disagreement."-- Provided by publisher


How to Cheer Up Dad - Fred Koehler
"A young elephant sees his dad is in a bad mood and tries to cheer him up, not realizing his own mischief caused the bad mood in the first place."-- Provided by publisher

The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend - Dan Santat
An imaginary friend waits a long time to be imagined by a child and given a special name, and finally does the unimaginable--he sets out on a quest to find his perfect match in the real world.