*New & Notable Kids' Books - October Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated October 7, 2025
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Chuseok : a good harvest festival
Habib, Grace
Have a good Chuseok! Celebrate the joyful and sweet traditions of the Korean harvest festival in this gorgeous board book highlighting a Korean holiday that honors the past and present. Our Neighborhood is a series of board books that celebrates every kids' culture so kids can...
Gather grateful
Litwin, Megan
Lyrical prose and luminous illustrations welcome the arrival of fall in a season of community and thanksgiving. Gather twigs and sticks to nest. Gather safety, strength, and rest. Gather up and fly away. Gather close. Prepare to stay....
Scary shark
Lowery, Mike
Paper Book
Edgar and Lotta return with a scarily funny Halloween follow-up to Santa Shark and Pizza Shark, from New York Times bestselling creator Mike Lowery! Edgar the Shark and his best friend Lotta team up once more in this hilarious Halloween tale! It's Halloween night, and...
Let's Make Pancakes: See It, Say It, Cook It, Eat It!
Oliver, Jamie
See it, say it, cook it, eat it--learn about food from the earliest age with one of the world's best-loved chefs, Jamie Oliver Jamie Oliver invites the youngest readers into the kitchen to discover a fun and tasty world of food.  ...
Lena the Chicken (But Really a Dinosaur!)
Bailey, Linda
Lena lives in a chicken coop, and she looks a lot like a chicken. But deep down, she's convinced that she's a... DINOSAUR! She can feel it in her bones. Lena just doesn't understand the scaredy chickens in her family, and they don't understand her either, with her ferociousness and big ideas. The...
May's Too-big Pizza
Woehling, A. T./ Whaley, Felicia (ILT)
May and her siblings make homemade pizza for their big family in this second book in the zany and exhilarating Level 1 Ready-to-Read series about a lovable and rambunctious family of ten! May has a big family. And when they decide to make homemade pizza together, it keeps...
Tate Tuber, Space Spud
Slack, Michael
A funny sci fi comic that's just right for second and third graders! Tate Tuber has always known he was destined for greatness. A couch potato? Not Tate--he's going to be an astronaut! So when Tate sees his chance to join space training, he literally  jumps at the...
Ms. Pennypickle's puzzle quest
Grabenstein, Chris
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Mr. Lemoncello series comes a race across the country full of rousing riddles and laugh-out-loud humor as two brothers try to solve the million-dollar puzzle of an eccentric genius! Benjamin and Ethan Broderick don't fit...
Partypooper
Kinney, Jeff
Paper Book
It's Greg's birthday--and you're invited to the chaos. In Partypooper, the 20th book in Jeff Kinney's global smash-hit Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley is planning the ultimate party--for himself. But when the guest list grows, the decorations...
Spy school blackout
Gibbs, Stuart
Paper Book
In the thirteenth book in Stuart Gibbs's New York Times bestselling Spy School series, superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley goes off the grid to eliminate a cybersecurity threat. After a devious computer hacker pulls off the CIA's worst-case scenario, shutting down power...
NIGHT CHEF: AN EPIC TALE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH A SIDE OF DELICIOUSNESS! (A GRAPHIC NOVEL)
Song, Mika
Ratatouille meets the magic of Studio Ghibli as a lonely raccoon who secretly lives inside a fine French restaurant and yearns to be a chef must venture into the woods for the first time to help a baby crow find its home. The Night Chef has never had a family-...
Not-So-Sweetie Pie (Weenie Featuring Frank and Beans Book #3)
Fergus, Maureen
Paper Book
Fans of Narwhal and Jelly will love this laugh-out-loud graphic novel adventure with Weenie, Frank and Beans that features a new villain- another (cuter) wiener dog named Sweetie-Pie who's out to ruin Weenie's good time. Meet Weenie. He loves his best friend Frank (a cat) and his...
The Baby-sitters Club 18 : Jessi Ramsey, Pet-sitter
Crenshaw, Ellen T. (ADP)/ Crenshaw, Ellen T. (ILT)/ Martin, Ann M.
Paper Book
A Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by National Book Award longlister and Eisner-nominated cartoonist Ellen T. Crenshaw! The Mancusis don't have any kids... but they sure do have a lot of pets! So when they're desperate for a sitter, who do they call? The Baby-sitters Club! Kristy...
Kindred Dragons
Mensinga, Sarah.
Anne of Green Gables meets How to Train Your Dragon in Kindred Dragons, a cozy and heartfelt middle-grade graphic novel about a brave young girl and the dragon whose life depends on her Alice has been unhappy ever since her parents sent her to...
Refugee : the graphic novel
Gratz, Alan
Paper Book
The timeless #1 New York Times bestseller Refugee is brought to life in a stunning graphic novel adaptation! JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the...
Winging It: A Graphic Novel
Lloyd, Megan Wagner
Paper Book
From the Eisner-nominated creators of instant bestsellers Allergic and Squished comes a charming and funny graphic novel about family, friendship, and self-discovery! Twelve-year-old Luna never wanted to move from California to Virginia, even if it is near historic Washington...
The Buzz on Wild Bees : The Little-known Pollinators That Keep Our Planet Humming
Vermond, Kira/ Steube, June (ILT)
An engaging introduction to the wide world of wild bees Say the word "bee," and most kids think of honeybees or bumblebees. But there are around 20,000 discovered species of bees--and most of these are wild, solitary bees that don't live in hives. Readers will discover fascinating facts...
Rebel Girls Make Dessert: Kid-Tested Recipes You Can Make, Bake, and Share!
Rebel Girls Inc
Empower young chefs-in-training with 80+ kid-tested, accessible recipes for sweet treats and desserts from around the world--by the creators of Rebel Girls Cook. Did you know that you can whip up a fluffy confetti cake without a mixer? Have you ever wondered if there were...

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