New & Notable Kids' Books - September Highlights

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated October 7, 2024
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Mooncakes mean family
Shum, Benson
Paper Book
Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with this sweet story of food and family! In this story designed to engage early readers, charming characters combine with simple text, lively illustrations, and laugh-out-loud humor to help boost kids' confidence and create lifelong readers!
The Most Boring Book Ever
Sanderson, Brandon. 
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Listen, this book is boring. We're telling you it's boring. It's in the title of the book--in fact, it's THE MOST BORING BOOK EVER! And created by #1 New York Times bestsellers Brandon Sanderson and Kazu Kibuishi! ...
The Princess in Black and the Kitty Catastrophe.
Hale, Shannon 
Paper Book
The Princess in Black may know how to handle all kinds of monsters, but a kitten set on destruction? Me-OW! Duchess Wigtower had heard that pets are fun, but all her kitten has gotten her is nine lives' worth of problems. Eeeeek! It's time for someone else to deal...
Impossible Creatures.
Rundell, Katherine 
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Two kids race to save the world's last magical place in the first book of a landmark new fantasy series, from "a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination." (Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass) *This...
Library Girl.
Horvath, Polly 
Paper Book
After living in the public library for the last eleven years, Essie must learn to adapt to a world that's not as perfect as the stories she's grown up with in this heartfelt middle grade novel from Newbery Honor author Polly Horvath. Essie has grown up in the public library,...
Spy school goes wild
Gibbs, Stuart
Paper Book
In the twelfth book in Stuart Gibbs's New York Times bestselling Spy School series, superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley gets lost on a perilous mission with one of his greatest enemies. Ben Ripley is recruited for a top secret mission to bring down his...
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess.
Riordan, Rick 
Paper Book
In his continuing quest to earn college recommendation letters from the gods, Percy has to pet sit the goddess Hecate's polecat and giant mastiff during Halloween week. What could go wrong? Rick Riordan's newest Percy Jackson adventure is full of hilarious set pieces, a diverse...
Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House, Vol. 7 Sunset of the Sabertooth.
Osborne, Mary Pope. 
Paper Book
Magic. Mystery. Time-travel. Get whisked away to the Ice Age on a frozen adventure with brother-and-sister team Jack and Annie in the #1 bestselling chapter book series, now available as graphic novels! The Ice Age is super cool...for two kids in bathing suits! Jack and Annie...
Kristy and the walking disaster
Martin, Ann M.
Paper Book
America's favorite series returns with a new look and a Netflix tv show. They're lean, they're mean, they're the pride of Stoneybrook. Who are they? They're Kristy's Krushers! When Kristy sees how much her little brothers and sister want to play on a softball team, she starts a rag-tag...
This Is How We Play A Celebration of Disability and Adaptation.
Slice, Jessica 
Paper Book
A jubilant, inclusive, luminously illustrated picture book that features families at play, each with a family member who has a disability. With love and adaptation, this is how we play! This joyful read-aloud with an empowering refrain, from disability rights activists...
Explanatorium of Nature.
DK 
Paper Book
Get closer to nature than you've ever been before with this guide to our wonderful world. Marvel at the breathtaking photography showcasing flora and fauna in the most incredible, intricate detail in this nature-packed guide for children aged 9+. This unputdownable book is a...
World of Rot Learn All about the Wriggly, Slimy, Super-Cool Decomposers We Couldn't Live Without.
Crow-Miller, Britt 
Paper Book
This fascinating book takes readers on a deep dive into the process of decay, from the science behind it to an up-close and personal look at the organisms that do the dirty work to make our planet livable.  With a touch of humor and quirky full-color...

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