*New & Notable Kids' Books - October Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated October 15, 2025
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*New & Notable Kids' Books - October Highlights*

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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...
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...
Dory Fantasmagory: Center of the Universe.
Hanlon, Abby
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Dory joins her first soccer team in this bestselling, laugh-out-loud chapter book series about an imaginative little rascal with a big personality. Perfect for fans of Junie B. Jones and Ivy & Bean! "Some of the best children's literature in years....
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
Meet Weenie. He loves his best friend Frank (a cat) and his other best friend Beans (a guinea pig) and Bob (the guy who takes care of them). The thing Weenie does NOT love? When another wiener dog comes along to make his life miserable by peeing on his toys, messing with Bob's stuff (that's Weenie's...
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 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 Prince Edward Island to live...
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...
Smart Machines: How AI Is Changing Our World
Becker, Helaine
★"A must-buy for libraries where patrons are actively using AI tools or considering AI-related careers, this is equally valuable for those developing instruction on research methodologies, digital literacy, or copyright ethics." -- School Library Journal (SLJ), starred review Did you...
Up in the Blue Sky: Journey from the Earth's Surface to Outer Space
Accinelli, Gianumberto
Discover a world that can't be touched. Beginning on Earth's surface, start your ascent into the blue and fly alongside butterflies, birds, drones, aircraft and more. Watch as the scale maps the altitude as you are transported higher and higher into the sky, soaring among meteorites, the...
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