New Children’s Materials for February 2021

February

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Picture Books

Girl versus squirrel / written by Hayley Barrett ; illustrated by Renée Andriani.
Otto and Pio / Marianne Dubuc.
Counting creatures / Julia Donaldson ; [illustrations by] Sharon King-Chai.
Hello numbers! What can you do? : an adventure beyond counting / Edmund Harriss and Houston Hughes ; illustrated by Brian Rea.
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Sophie Johnson, unicorn expert, is a detective genius / by Morag Hood and illustrated by Ella Okstad.
Hortense and the shadow / Natalia and Lauren O
George and Martha : the complete stories of two best friends / written and illustrated by James Marshall ; foreword by Maurice Sendak ; appreciations by Marc Brown, Jack Gantos, Susan Meddaugh, Nicole Rubel, Coleen Salley, John Scieszka, and David Wiesner ; afterword by Anita Silvey.
Me & Mama / Cozbi A. Cabrera.
I love you, baby burrito / Angela Dominguez.
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Ohana means family / written by Ilima Loomis ; illustrated by Kenard Pak.
A sled for Gabo / written by Emma Otheguy ; illustrated by Ana Ramírez González.
Madeline Finn and the therapy dog / Lisa Papp.
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Meesha makes friends / Tom Percival.
Every little letter / by Deborah Underwood ; illustrated by Joy Hwang Ruiz.
Woodland dreams / by Karen Jameson ; pictures by Marc Boutavant.
The paper boat / Thao Lam.
Sugar and spice and everything mice / written by Annie Silvestro ; illustrated by Christee Curran-Bauer.
Migrants / Issa Watanabe.
Bulldozer friends / Andrea Zimmerman & David Clemesha.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T : Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul / Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Frank Morrison.
Mother Jones and her army of Mill Children / words by Jonah Winter ; illustrations by Nancy Carpenter.
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Itzhak : a boy who loved the violin / by Tracy Newman ; illustrated by Abigail Halpin.
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Sharuko : el arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello = Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello / Monica Brown ; ilustraciones/illustrations, Elisa Chavarri ; traducción al español/Spanish translation, Adriana Domínguez.

Early Readers and Beginning Chapter Books

The Evil Princess vs. the Brave Knight make good choices? / by Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm.
See the cat : three stories about a dog / David LaRochelle ; illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka.
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Snail finds a home / by Mary Peterson.
Snoozie, Sunny, and So-So / words by Dafna Ben-Zvi ; pictures by Ofra Amit ; translated from the Hebrew by Annette Appel.
Bad Kitty goes on vacation / Nick Bruel.
Madame Badobedah / Sophie Dahl ; illustrated by Lauren O
Stella Endicott and the anything-is-possible poem / Kate DiCamillo ; illustrated by Chris Van Dusen.
The birthday castle / Dee Romito.
A long road on a short day / Gary D. Schmidt & Elizabeth Stickney ; with illustrations by Eugene Yelchin.
The scrumptious life of Azaleah Lane / by Nikki Shannon Smith ; illustrated by Gloria Felix.
The amazing life of Azaleah Lane / by Nikki Shannon Smith, illustrated by Mari Lobo.
The dramatic life of Azaleah Lane / by Nikki Shannon Smith ; illustrated by Gloria Felix.

Fiction, Fantasy, and Mystery

The girl who speaks bear / Sophie Anderson.
The last human / Lee Bacon.
The story web / Megan Frazer Blakemore.
City of the plague god / Sarwat Chadda.
A tale of witchcraft... / Chris Colfer ; illustrated by Brandon Dorman.
The total eclipse of Nestor Lopez / Adrianna Cuevas.
Duel at Araluen / John Flanagan.
The missing prince / John Flanagan.
Tin / Pádraig Kenny.
Homerooms & hall passes / by Tom O
Ikenga / Nnedi Okorafor.
A wish in the dark / Christina Soontornvat.
Cattywampus / Ash Van Otterloo.
Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids / edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith.
Orange for the sunsets / Tina Athaide.
The blackbird girls / by Anne Blankman.
The forgotten girl / India Hill Brown.
Efrén divided / by Ernesto Cisneros.
I can make this promise / Christine Day.
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A place at the table / Saadia Faruqi & Laura Shovan.
The Doldrums and the Helmsley curse / written and illustrated by Nicholas Gannon.
Ghost : thirteen haunting tales to tell / a collection by illustratus ; writers: Blaise Hemingway, Jesse Reffsin ; illustrators: Chris Sasaki, Jeff Turley.
Scary stories for young foxes / Christian McKay Heidicker ; with illustrations by Junyi Wu.
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American as paneer pie / Supriya Kelkar.
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Emperor of the universe / by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth ; illustrated by Robb Mommaerts.
Target Earth / by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth ; illustrated by Robb Mommaerts.
The Spacedog cometh / by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth ; illustrated by Robb Mommaerts.
Under the broken sky / Mariko Nagai.
Good enough / Jen Petro-Roy.
Blood Mountain / James Preller.
Nikki on the line / Barbara Carroll Roberts.
Telephone tales / Gianni Rodari ; illustrated by Valerio Vidali ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.
Just like that / Gary D. Schmidt.
Case file : little claws / by Eliot Schrefer ; illustrated by Daniel Duncan.
Before the ever after / Jacqueline Woodson.
The mystery of Black Hollow Lane / Julia Nobel.
Nessie quest / Melissa Savage.

Graphic Novels

Navajo code talkers : top secret messengers of World War II / by Blake Hoena ; illustrated by Marcel P. Massegú.
Tales of the feathered serpent. [1], Rise of the halfling king / by David Bowles ; illustrated by Charlene Bowles.
Oh my gods! / written by Stephanie Cooke & Insha Fitzpatrick ; art by Juliana Moon.
Song of the court / story and art by Katy Farina ; colors by Ashanti Fortson.
My weird school graphic novel. [1], Mr. Corbett is in orbit! / Dan Gutman ; pictures by Jim Paillot.
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My video game ate my homework / written and illustrated by Dustin Hansen ; lettered by Corey Breen.
Colin Kaepernick / by Blake Hoena ; illustrated by Sam LeDoyen.
National Geographic Kids : almanac 2021.
Dog Man. Grime and punishment / written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey ; with color by Jose Garibaldi.
Squidding Around. 1, Fish Feud! / Kevin Sherry ; with colors by Wes Dzioba.
Redbone : the true story of a Native American rock band / written by Christian Staebler & Sonia Paoloni ; art by Thibault Balahy ; translated by Edward Gauvin ; lettering by Frank Cvetkovic.

Informational Books

Puppy in my head : a book about mindfulness / Elise Gravel.
Just like me / Vanessa Brantley-Newton.
Philosophy : a visual encyclopedia / written by Dr. Robert Fletcher, Dr. Paola Romero, Marianne Talbot, Nigel Warburton, Dr. Amna Whiston.
This is your brain on stereotypes : how science is tackling unconscious bias / Tanya Lloyd Kyi ; illustrations by Drew Shannon.
Sometimes people march / by Tessa Allen.
For which we stand : how our government works and why it matters / written by Jeff Foster ; illustrated by Julie McLaughlin.
What are my rights? / Kelisa Wing.
Climate action : what happened and what we can do / Seymour Simon.
Caught! : nabbing history
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The metric system / by David A. Adler ; illustrated by Edward Miller.
The ups and downs of gravity / David A. Adler ; illustrated by Anna Raff.
Rocks : hard, soft, smooth, and rough / written by Natalie M. Rosinsky ; illustration by Matthew John.
Beastly puzzles : a brain-boggling animal guessing game / written by Rachel Poliquin ; illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler.
Into the forest : wander through our woodland world / Christiane Dorion ; illustrated by Jane McGuinness.
Cardboard box engineering : cool, inventive projects for tinkerers, makers & future scientists / Jonathan Adolph.
Rock stars! : true stories of extreme climbing adventures / by Stephen Bramucci.
All thirteen : the incredible cave rescue of the Thai boys
Cast away : poems for our time / Naomi Shihab Nye.
The impossible first : an explorer
What the eagle sees : Indigenous stories of rebellion and renewal / Eldon Yellowhorn & Kathy Lowinger.
How Maine changed the world : a history in 50 people, places, and objects / Nancy Griffin
Infinite hope : a black artist
The rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh / Candace Fleming.
One real American : the life of Ely S. Parker, Seneca Sachem and Civil War general / Joseph Bruchac.
Who did it first? : 50 politicians, activists, and entrepreneurs who revolutionized the world / edited by Alex Hart ; written by Jay Leslie ; illustrated by Nneka Myers.
Who did it first? : 50 scientists, artists, and mathematicians who revolutionized the world / edited by Alex Hart ; written by Julie Leung ; illustrated by Caitlin Kuhwald.