Category Archives: New Children Books

In Myrtle Peril

by Elizabeth C. Bunce

Myrtle Hardcastle-twelve-year-old Victorian Amateur Detective-returns to investigate the case of a missing heiress lost at sea, an inquiry that runs aground when a murder in plain sight has no apparent victim. 

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The Bluest Sky

by Christina Diaz Gonzalez

A boy and his family must decide whether to remain in Cuba under a repressive government or risk everything for the chance of a new beginning. 

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Show Us Who You Are

by Elle Mc Nicoll

A neurodiverse twelve-year-old girl is shown an amazing new technology that gives her another chance to talk to the best friend she lost.  But she soon discovers the corporation behind the science hides dark secrets that only she can expose. 

 

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Forever Cousins

by Laurel Goodluck

In this Native American Story, Kara and Amanda are best-friend cousins.  Then Kara leaves the city to move back to the Rez.  Will their friendship stay the same?

 

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Finding Fire

by Logan S. Kline

After a hard rain douses the family fire, a brave young boy sets out to search for more fire to bring home before the cold season sets in.  Along the way, he’ll face many challenges, from perilous mountains to fearsome predators to raging rivers, and find something wholly unexpected: a friend.

 

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Noodleheads Take It Easy

by Tedd Arnold, Mitch Weiss, Martha Hamilton

Mac and Mac want to take it easy and eat their favorite pie, but making pie isn’t as easy as eating it!  Or is it?  Along the way their friends and mom give them tricks to make it as easy as ….well pie!  But the boys’ shenanigans make things harder than they need to be.  Will Mac and Mac get to have their pie and eat it too? 

 

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The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology

by Danna Staaf

Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist.  Born is 1794 in a French Village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily.  There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how the argonaut octopus gets its shell. 

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