Top 10 Juvenile Biographies 2024

The top 10 checkouts from our Juvenile Biography collection in 2024.

Updated January 22, 2025
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1

Guts
Telgemeier, Raina
Paper Book

2

Sisters
Telgemeier, Raina
Paper Book
Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile!Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play...

3

Smile
Telgemeier, Raina
Paper Book
Raina just wanted to be a normal girl, but one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of...

4

The tryout
Soontornvat, Christina
Paper Book
  A graphic novel about friendship, belonging and feeling comfortable in your own skin! Trying out for middle school cheerleader means: performing in the giant school gym, with the whole school watching, and risking total humiliation. If Christina can make it through this,...

5

When stars are scattered
Jamieson, Victoria
Paper Book
A National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl. Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab,...

6

The hiding place :
Dematteo, Mario
Paper Book
One of the bestselling books of all time-- now a captivating graphic novel!It's World War II. Darkness has fallen over the world as the Nazis spread fear and hatred. No one feels safe. But on a city corner in Holland one woman fights against...

7

Bad sister
Harper, Charise Mericle
Paper Book
This middle grade graphic memoir by Charise Mericle Harper, featuring illustrations by Rory Lucey, follows a young girl who undergoes a crisis of conscience, realizing that she is a "bad sister." Meet Charise. She's energetic, helpful, a model pet owner and full...

8

Snowflake Bentley
Martin, Jacqueline Briggs
Paper Book
In this Caldecott Medal-winning picture book, the true story of Wilson Bentley and his singular fascination with snowflakes is rendered in rich prose and gorgeous artwork, perfect for the holidays, snow days, and everyday. Wilson Bentley was always fascinated by snow. In childhood and...

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