Ms. Johnson's Top Reads of 2024

Some favorite new-to-me books that we have in our library that I read in 2024.

Updated April 9, 2026
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Attack of the black rectangles
King, A. S.
Paper Book
Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write. When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends...
The ballad of songbirds and snakes
Collins, Suzanne
Paper Book
Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a...
Demon Copperhead
Kingsolver, Barbara
Paper Book
A masterpiece in storytelling from the global bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behaviour.
The familiar
Bardugo, Leigh
Paper Book
" From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age. In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her...
The Kamogawa food detectives
Kashiwai, Hisashi
Paper Book
" A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal. The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in...
Long live evil
Brennan, Sarah Rees
Paper Book
Her fictional crush is the villain. And he's about to meet his match... Rae is a bookworm who prefers fictional men over real life boyfriends. But her life takes a strange turn when she is trapped by magic inside her favourite fantasy series,...
Margo's got money troubles
Thorpe, Rufi
Paper Book
Mexican gothic
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
'You don't read this book so much as surrender to it. A dark and heady swoon' THE GUARDIAN 'As rich is suspense as it is in lush '50s atmosphere' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to...
The night war
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Paper Book
From the two-time Newbery Honor-winner and a #1 New York Times bestselling author of The War That Saved My Life and The War I Finally Won comes a new middle-grade novel, in which a girl who has lost everything must decide whether to risk her life to bring others to freedom. In 1942, much of France...
The no-girlfriend rule
Randall, Christen
Paper Book
A queer YA coming-of-age novel that explores what it means to be yourself, even when itfeels like the world wants you to be someone else-perfect for fans of Alice Oseman,Rainbow Rowell and ND Stevenson.
The skull : a Tyrolean folktale
Klassen, Jon
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times bestseller! A Kirkus Book Prize Finalist! A New York Times Best Children's Chapter Book the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of the Year Caldecott Medalist and New York Times best-selling author...
To Night Owl from Dogfish
Sloan, Holly Goldberg
Paper Book
From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters. Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who's...
Warrior Girl unearthed
Boulley, Angeline
Paper Book

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