New Children's Books October 2022 | Darien

1) 5,000 awesome facts (about animals)

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"National Geographic Kids presents 5,000 fascinating facts in an accessible and engaging format about animals in kids' own backyards and around the world. This book includes animals from anteaters to zombie worms and covers such high-interest topics as survival adaptations, record holders, and animal communication"--

2) Action!: how movies began

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McCarthy, Meghan

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"Meghan McCarthy tells the story of the history of movies and the creators who made them. In fascinating detail, she shows how early photography capturing motion became silent films, which led to the first color films"--

3) The animal toolkit: how animals use tools

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Featuring cut-paper illustrations, this picture book teaches young readers all about what makes a tool a tool--and the remarkable ways animals use them to interact with the world.

4) Axel's first day

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Parachini, Jodie

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An overenthusiastic Axel makes several mistakes on his first day at the construction site, but the other trucks show him how they all work together to get the job done.

5) Besties: find their groove

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eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

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"With their first formal school dance around the corner, Beth and Chanda are on a mission to make it the best night ever. Step one? Secure the perfect dresses so they can dominate the dance floor! But when neither of them can find an outfit that lives up to their high expectations--and when they encounter unexpected pressure to find dates--these besties will need to lean on their friendship more than ever if they hope to find their groove and bust...

6) Black Panther: spellbound

Author

Smith, Ronald L

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

In this sequel to The Young Prince, T'Challa heads back to America to visit his friends, but finds his summer vacation turning into a nightmare when the small town falls under the sway of a charismatic politician.

7) Black Panther: uprising

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Smith, Ronald L

Description

While showing his American friends around Wakanda when Tafari summons dark forces to return Wakanda to the "old ways," T’Chalia must stop Tafari before the King and Queen are lost in an alternate dimension forever.

8) Braver than I thought: Real people. Real courage. Real hope

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"Magazine spreads and Hollywood hits showcase stars with perfect skin, perfect faces, perfect hair, perfect lives, perfect... everything. But what if the absence of scars is really a lie? And what if, underneath all that perfection, something far more powerful and authentic is waiting to be seen, shown, and heard? In Braver Than I Thought, kids meet the true stories of remarkable people whose scars have been a part of their journey, who have helped...

9) Bug Scouts: camp out!

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Bug Scouts Doug, Abby, Luna, and Josh spend a night in the woods to earn their camping badge, but when they start hearing eerie noises, the scouts worry there is a monster lurking in the woods with them.

10) Can Blue hide?

Author

Lehrhaupt, Adam

Description

Shark and his octopus friend Blue play hide-and-seek together.

11) Chibi Usagi: attack of the Heebie Chibis

Author

Sakai, Julie Fujii

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e-Comic, Graphic Novel

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"While fishing for freshwater eels, Chibi Usagi, Tomoe, and Gen rescue a Dogu, a clay creature from Japan's prehistory. The Dogu's village has been enslaved by the Salamander King and his Heebie-Chibi minions and are forced to work in their mines. Chibi Usagi and his friends must rescue the Dogu people and eliminate the threat of the Salamander King forever in this feature-length story of adventure, humor, and slippery eels"--

12) Choosing brave: how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement

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"The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--

13) City of speed

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Book, eAudiobook

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"In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular aerial races that draw in cheering crowds by the tens of thousands. Abel is at just such a race when he witnesses the unthinkable. A long-shot competitor pulls off...

14) Cornbread & Poppy at the Carnival

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Cordell, Matthew

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Best friends Cornbread and Poppy spend a day at the Carnival playing games, eating snacks, and riding the Ferris wheel.

15) Creepy crayon!

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Reynolds, Aaron

Description

"When Jasper Rabbit finds a purple crayon willing to do his schoolwork for him, he is elated--at first"--

16) The deadliest fires then and now

Author

Hopkinson, Deborah

Description

"As the sun sank over the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, one warm October night in 1871, a smoky haze hung in the dry air. There had been little rain, and small fires had been rolling through town continuously since the summer. For weeks the people had tried to protect their homes and businesses from fire. But they could not protect themselves from what would culminate in the deadliest fire in American history. As industrialization surged across the...

17) Diana Taurasi

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"When Diana Taurasi was a girl, professional women's basketball didn't exist in the US. But she worked hard to create opportunities for herself, winning championships throughout college and eventually going on to play for the WNBA with the Phoenix Mercury and winning multiple Olympic gold medals"--

18) Dig it, Digby!

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Parachini, Jodie

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Description

Digby and his friends discover that there is more than one way to get the job done when they become dancing machines at the construction site.

19) DK children's encyclopedia: the book that explains everything!

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"This book of essential knowledge will inspire young minds to learn about big topics, through fun facts and beautiful illustrations. DK Children's Encyclopedia is a must-have resource for every kid's bookshelf, covering over 250 topics all in one place!"--

20) The door of no return

Author

Alexander, Kwame

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

"A novel in verse about an Asante boy who is captured and taken from his village during the nineteenth century"--