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New Books & Media: Children's & Young Adult Books

Spring and Summer 2025

Children's & Young Adult: New Print Books

Geisel Library houses a Curriculum Juvenile collection which contains print versions of children's and young adult fiction and non-fiction titles. All of the items listed on this page are new titles in this collection, which is located on the lower level of the library.

Picture Books

Cactus Queen by Lori Alexander; Jenn Ely (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY ALEXAND

ISBN: 9781662680212

Publication Date: 2024-03-05
Clever Crow by Chris Butterworth; Olivia Lomenech Gill (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY BUTTERW

ISBN: 9781536235425

Publication Date: 2024-07-09
Green: the Story of Plant Life on Our Planet by Nicola Davies; Emily Sutton (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY DAVIES

ISBN: 9781536231410

Publication Date: 2024-03-12
Windsongs by Douglas Florian (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY FLORIAN

ISBN: 9781665937726

Publication Date: 2024-05-28
Bunny Should Be Sleeping by Amy Hest; Renata Liwska (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY HEST

ISBN: 9780823453412

Publication Date: 2024-03-05
Sunken Ship by Amy Hevron (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY HEVRON

ISBN: 9781665935005

Publication Date: 2024-09-24
Evidence! by Deborah Hopkinson; Nik Henderson (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY HOPKINS

ISBN: 9780593426814

Publication Date: 2024-08-13
Sisters in Science by Linda Elovitz Marshall; Anna and Elena Balbusso (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY MARSHAL

ISBN: 9780593377598

Publication Date: 2023-02-14
The Lonely Goose by Lela Nargi; Anne Hunter (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY NARGI

ISBN: 9780593647554

Publication Date: 2025-03-11
This Book Is Full of Holes by Nora Nickum; Robert Meganck (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY NICKUM

ISBN: 9781682636008

Publication Date: 2024-03-26
Whalesong: the True Story of the Musician Who Talked to Orcas by Zachariah OHora
Call Number: EASY OHORA

ISBN: 9781774883945

Publication Date: 2024-09-24
Pau: the Last Song of the Kaua'i 'o'o by Tony Piedra (Illustrator); MacKenzie Joy (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY PIEDRA

ISBN: 9781536219494

Publication Date: 2024-09-17
Rats to the Rescue by Scott Riley; Sambat Meas; Huy Voun Lee (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY RILEY

ISBN: 9798765607985

Publication Date: 2024-09-10
The Shape of Things by Dean Robbins; Matt Tavares (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY ROBBINS

ISBN: 9780593479254

Publication Date: 2024-08-20
The Great Lakes by Barb Rosenstock
Call Number: EASY ROSENST

ISBN: 9780593374351

Publication Date: 2024-03-19
Almost Underwear by Jonathan Roth
Call Number: EASY ROTH

ISBN: 9780316525541

Publication Date: 2024-08-20
My Lost Freedom by George Takei; Michelle Lee (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY TAKEI

ISBN: 9780593566350

Publication Date: 2024-04-16
When Beavers Flew by Kristen Tracy; Luisa Uribe (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY TRACY

ISBN: 9780593647530

Publication Date: 2024-07-23
Whirligigs by Carole Boston Weatherford; Edwin Fotheringham (Illustrator)
Call Number: EASY WEATHER

ISBN: 9781662680410

Publication Date: 2024-11-12

Graphic Novels

Call Me Iggy by Jorge Aguirre; Rafael Rosado (Illustrator)
Call Number: FICTION AGUIRRE

ISBN: 9781250204158

Publication Date: 2024-02-13
Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol
Call Number: FICTION BROSGOL

ISBN: 9781250314864

Publication Date: 2024-05-07
The Library Mule of Cordoba by Leonard Chemineau (Artist); Wilfrid Lupano
Call Number: FICTION LUPANO

ISBN: 9781684972791

Publication Date: 2024-09-17
Freshman Year (a Graphic Novel) by Sarah Mai
Call Number: FICTION MAI

ISBN: 9780316401074

Publication Date: 2024-02-13
Leap by Simina Popescu (Illustrator)
Call Number: FICTION POPESCU

ISBN: 9781250838292

Publication Date: 2024-11-12
Bunt! by Ngozi Ukazu; Mad Rupert (Illustrator)
Call Number: FICTION UKAZU

ISBN: 9781250193520

Publication Date: 2024-02-13
Ash's Cabin by Jen Wang
Call Number: FICTION WANG

ISBN: 9781250754059

Publication Date: 2024-08-13
Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang; LeUyen Pham (Illustrator)
Call Number: FICTION YANG

ISBN: 9781626728103

Publication Date: 2024-01-09
Asgardians: Odin by George O'Connor
Call Number: BL870.O3 O27 2024

ISBN: 9781250760760

Publication Date: 2024-03-26

Chapter Books & Young Adult Novels

A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat
Call Number: FICTION FRAISTA

ISBN: 9780593382219

Publication Date: 2024-01-16
The Summer Queen by Rochelle Hassan
Call Number: FICTION HASSAN

ISBN: 9781250822253

Publication Date: 2024-01-23
Ultraviolet by Aida Salazar
Call Number: FICTION SALAZAR

ISBN: 9781338775655

Publication Date: 2024-04-02
Medici Heist by Caitlin Schneiderhan
Call Number: FICTION SCHNEID

ISBN: 9781250907189

Publication Date: 2024-08-06
All Better Now by Neal Shusterman
Call Number: FICTION SHUSTER

ISBN: 9781534432758

Publication Date: 2025-02-04
Into the Sunken City by Dinesh Thiru
Call Number: FICTION THIRU

ISBN: 9780063310513

Publication Date: 2024-01-23
Night Owls by A. R. Vishny
Call Number: FICTION VISHNY

ISBN: 9780063327306

Publication Date: 2024-09-17
Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley
Call Number: FICTION WASLEY

ISBN: 9781665914604

Publication Date: 2024-02-13
Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams; Danica Novgorodoff (Illustrator)
Call Number: FICTION WILLIAM

ISBN: 9781481465830

Publication Date: 2024-04-23
Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White by Amélie Wen Zhao
Call Number: FICTION ZHAO

ISBN: 9780593487549

Publication Date: 2024-01-02

Non-Fiction

The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II (Scholastic Focus) by Candace Fleming
Call Number: D810.C88 F54 2024

ISBN: 9781338749571

Publication Date: 2024-03-05
Waist-Deep in Dung by Christine Virnig; Korwin Briggs (Illustrator)
Call Number: HF5381 .V487 2024

ISBN: 9781250762351

Publication Date: 2024-03-12
This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell; Aurelia Durand (Illustrator)
Call Number: HT1563 .J49 2020

ISBN: 9780711245211

Publication Date: 2020-01-07
The Unofficial Alcatraz Handbook by Kristen Tracy; Anika Orrock (Illustrator)
Call Number: HV9474.A4 T73 2024

ISBN: 9780593661031

Publication Date: 2024-09-24
History Smashers: Salem Witch Trials by Kate Messner; Falynn Koch (Illustrator)
Call Number: KFM2478.8.W5 M47 2024

ISBN: 9780593705285

Publication Date: 2024-08-13
Extreme Survival by Ben Lerwill; Daniel Long (Illustrator)
Call Number: QH541.14 .L4722 2024

ISBN: 9798887770482

Publication Date: 2024-04-02
Animal Climate Heroes by Alison Pearce Stevens; Jason Ford (Illustrator)
Call Number: QH541.14 .S738 2024

ISBN: 9781250847348

Publication Date: 2024-03-05
Life after Whale by Lynn Brunelle; Jason Chin (Illustrator)
Call Number: QH541.5.D35 B78 2024

ISBN: 9780823452286

Publication Date: 2024-06-04
Owls in Our Yard! by Carl Safina
Call Number: QL696.S83 S25 2024

ISBN: 9781324053194

Publication Date: 2024-06-25
Sick! by Heather L. Montgomery; Lindsey Leigh (Illustrator)
Call Number: QL756.6 .M66 2024

ISBN: 9781547609857

Publication Date: 2024-02-20
Is It Real? the Loch Ness Monster by Candace Fleming
Call Number: QL89.2.L6 F54 2025

ISBN: 9781546110286

Publication Date: 2025-03-04
Pet Selector! by Russell Kane; Erica Salcedo (Illustrator)
Call Number: SF416.2 .K36 2024

ISBN: 9780711290198

Publication Date: 2024-09-03
Space: the Final Pooping Frontier by Annabeth Bondor-Stone; Connor White; Lars Kenseth (Illustrator)
Call Number: TL793 .B626 2024

ISBN: 9781250222886

Publication Date: 2024-07-02

Questions and Suggestions

Please contact Steve Robichaud, Head of Collection Development at Geisel Library, if you have any questions about the Library's curriculum juvenile materials or would like to suggest new titles.