Kid Reads

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Updated June 6, 2025
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Amari and the Night Brothers
B. B. Alston
Paper Book
"AMARI IS MAGICAL!" ANGIE THOMAS An epic middle grade supernatural adventure series, soon to be a major movie starring Marsai Martin. Perfect for readers aged 8+ and fans of Percy Jackson, Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, Marvel and Onyeka. Amari Peters knows three things. Her...
New Kid
Jerry Craft
Paper Book
Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature!  Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low...
The Bletchley Riddle
Ruta Sepetys
Paper Book
A thrilling middle grade historical adventure from bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin **Shortlisted for the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction 2025** Remember, you are bound by the official secrets act...  It is the summer of 1940. The world is at...
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody
Patrick Ness
Paper Book
Last Gate of the Emperor
Kwame Mbalia
Paper Book
  From Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel David Makonnen comes an action-packed Afrofuturist adventure about a mythical Ethiopian empire. Sci-fi and fantasy combine in this epic journey to the stars.  Yared Heywat lives an isolated life in Addis Prime- a hardscrabble...
Odder
Katherine Applegate
Paper Book
A touching and lyrical tale about a remarkable sea otter, from Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, author of Wishtree. Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn't just swim to the bottom, she...
Black Star
Kwame Alexander
Paper Book
Twelve-year old Charley is set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional baseball, even if thats a lofty dream for a Black girl in the American South in the 1920s. Even so, her grandfather Kofis thrilling stories about courageous ancestors and epic journeys make it impossible not to...
We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord
Garth Nix
Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories
Jeff Kinney
Paper Book
Scare yourself silly with Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories by Jeff Kinney, the #1 international bestselling author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid! Grab a flashlight, crawl under the covers, and dive into the twisted, unexpectedly hilarious world of Rowley...
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