With the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the Frank family’s life is turned inside out, blow by blow, restriction by restriction. Prejudice, loss, and terror run rampant, and Anne is forced to bear witness as ordinary people become monsters, and children and families are caught up in the inescapable tide of violence.
In the midst of impossible danger, Anne, audacious and creative and fearless, discovers who she truly is. With a wisdom far beyond her years, she will become a writer who will go on to change the world as we know it.
2025/2026 Lamplighter Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Scholastic Press
Copyright February 13, 2025
ISBN# 978-1338856941 (HB)
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2025/2026 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Starscape
Copyright February 13, 2025
ISBN# 978-1250815613 (PB)
Ruth Chan loves her hometown in Toronto, hanging out with her best friends for life, and snacking on ketchup flavored potato chips, which are the best. What Ruth doesn’t love is having to move to Hong Kong after her dad gets a new job there.
Her mom is excited to reunite with her family, but it’s not the same for Ruth. In Hong Kong, her classes are harder, her Cantonese isn’t good enough, and her parents are never around. Ruth feels lonely and completely uprooted.
2025/2026 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Roaring Brooks Press
Copyright February 13, 2025
ISBN# 978-1250855343 (PB)
Rylan O’Hare has been drifting apart from his best friend, Wilder, for months. Wilder’s family became mega-rich when his mom invented an app that reminds people to drink water, and now he barely has time for Rylan. So when Wilder invites Rylan to join him at a summer farming program in France (all expenses paid), Rylan see it as a chance to repair the friendship. Not only that, but he’ll get to learn French, milk goats, and eat lots (and lots) of cheese.
But before they take off, Rylan’s mom drops a bomb: His dad (whom he hasn’t spoken to since he was three) lives in France, too, and he wants to meet.
2025/2026 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Clarion Books
Copyright February 13, 2025
ISBN# 978-0358701507 (HB)
Friends. Bullies.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Anthony is TPFW (Too Popular For Words), loves science, hates writing.
Leah is a super-shy nerd who’s finally making friends of her own.
What could they have in common?
A lot more than they thought, as it turns out!
But then one day they witness Anthony’s teammates bullying a sixth grader. What happens next could cement their new friendship—or blow it up forever.
2025/2026 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Storytide
Copyright February 13, 2025
ISBN# 978-0063320925 (PB)
Meet Detective Beans (just Beans for short), a young cat sleuth dedicated to doing whatever it takes to solve the case. After a night of mystery movies with his best friend, Biscuit, Detective Beans wakes up to find his detective hat is missing. There’s only one thing to do: hit the streets of Cat Town and find that missing hat! Cat Town is full of suspects, from the neighborhood bird to a magician in the park, and each twist and turn in this journey leads to an interesting new encounter — and to solving a much bigger case than Beans could have imagined.
2025/2026 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing
Copyright February 13, 2025
ISBN# 978-1524882587 (PB)
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From Howard University to the red carpet at the Academy Awards, from James Brown to the Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman was a talented and multi-award-winning actor and performer. Prior to his death from colon cancer in 2020, Boseman’s rise to fame might have seemed overnight to some, but decades of hard work and dedication to his craft brought him to the highest levels an actor can achieve.
2025/2026 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Bushel & Peck Books
Copyright February 13, 2025
ISBN# 10 : 1638191778 (PB)
Those few who do, like 12-year-old Aster Temple, are banished through a mysterious portal to an unknown fate or forced to flee into the dangerous wilderness lands. Aster is determined not to get caught, but then she begins having strange waking Dreams. Her only clue is a friendship with Kennedy Lake, which Aster abandoned when Kennedy’s mother was exposed as a Dreamer.
In her efforts to figure out what is happening to her, Aster begins to learn the meaning of friendship, but her Dreams are only getting worse. And when a fugitive Dreamer returns to Hargrove, bent on revenge, Aster must choose whether to save herself or risk everything for a people who don’t deserve her help.
2025/2026 Crown Award
Reading Level: 0.0
Published by Bandersnach Books
Copyright February 13, 2025
ISBN# 978-1958863107 (PB)
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