2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Fiction

The Friendship War

Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of everything--and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. It's a fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting and trading and even fighting over . . . buttons?! A fad that might also get her in major trouble and could even be the end of Grace and Ellie's friendship.

Nightbitch: A Novel

Is the mother growing more hair, sharper canines, a tail? She thinks so, but her husband laughs off her concerns. Home with her toddler son while her husband travels for work every week, the mother is dealing with a certain kind of despair. She laments the dream job she gave up to be a full-time parent, and the art she misses making. This maybe-turning-into-a-dog thing adds curious flavor to the monotony, though, and leads her to her comforting new library-found companions, the wild and true stories in The Field Guide to Magical Women.

The Book Scavenger

In Jennifer Chambliss Bertman's New York Times bestselling Tween Fiction Book Scavenger series for young readers, Emily and James explore San Francisco, solving puzzles and finding clues to uncover the whereabouts of hidden books.

Ms. Bixby's Last Day

Loving their gifted teacher, three boys are dismayed when the teacher falls ill and leaves for the rest of the school year, a situation that compels them to share their stories while cutting class and journeying across town together on a fateful day.

You Choose series

The You Choose Books book series by multiple authors includes books The Revolutionary War: An Interactive History Adventure, The Civil War: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose: History), The Oregon Trail: An Interactive History Adventure, and several more.