2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Kids

AL Capone Does My Shirts

The Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminals in our history. Al Capone Does My Shirts has become an instant classic for all kids to read!

My Life With the Liars

Raised in a cult, twelve-year-old Zylnn has been taught that the outside world is dark and full of liars, but when her father rescues her, Zylnn experiences new aspects of life for the first time and has to make a decision about the cult.

Fairy Tale Reform School

This series is about a girl named Gillian (Gilly) Cobbler who ends up going to a school run by former villains, called Fairy Tale Reform School, due to her thievery. She and her friends, Jax, Kayla, Jocelyn, Ollie, Maxine, and others end up saving Enchantasia from villains like Alva, the witch who cursed Princess Rose, and Rumplestiliskin, who made deals and plans to restart the world.

Unbound : a novel in verse

 

The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.