Best Kid's Books of 2024!

We’re challenging readers of all ages to participate by reading and logging at least 300 minutes during our Winter Reading Challenge. Read, log your minutes and earn fun new badges in the Beanstack app. Complete the challenge and receive one entry into a drawing for the chance to win one of three Amazon Kindle Fire tablets!

Challenge begins January 1, 2025.

How to play

If you haven't already, create an account in Beanstack, which you can use as an app on your phone or tablet, or access via their website on your computer.

Once you're logged in to your Beanstack account, register for the Winter Reading Challenge. After you have logged 300 minutes of reading you will automatically be entered into the drawing!

For more information contact Matt Smith at 772-871-5452 or e-mail him at matthew.smith@stlucieco.gov

Updated December 21, 2024
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Max in the house of spies
Gidwitz, Adam
Audiobook
"Max in the House of Spies is everything you could hope for in a book," -R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder, White Bird, and Pony "Espionage! Secrets! Suspense! If you've ever dreamed of being a spy, this book is for you." -Alan Gratz,...
Elena rides
Medina, Juana, 1980-, author, illustrator.
Ebook
Beginning readers-and beginning riders-will be drawn to this bright, buoyant story of a determined elephant and her loyal sidekick, from the award-winning creator of Juana & Lucas. Elena wants to ride her bike. She steadies, she readies. She wobbles, she bobbles . . ....
Evergreen
Cordell, Matthew, 1975- author.
Paper Book
A picture book by Caldecott medal winner Matt Cordell about a timid squirrel who makes a brave journey to help a relative who is ill. Evergreen the squirrel is afraid of many things: thunder, hawks, and the dark paths of Buckthorn Forest. But when her mother tasks Evergreen...
Elf dog & owl head
Anderson, M. T.
Ebook
A Newbery Honor Book "A hilarious, heartfelt triumph."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the singular imagination of National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson comes a magical adventure about a boy and his dog-or a dog and her boy-and a forest of wonders...
Good different
Kuyatt, Meg Eden
Audiobook
Something like home
Arango, Andrea Beatriz
Audiobook
The Pura Belpré Honor winning novel in verse, in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only for them to find family in each other along the way. From the Newbery Honor winning author of Iveliz Explains It All. "Trust me: this book will touch...
Things in the basement
Hatke, Ben, author, artist.
Ebook

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