These chapter books were some of the favorites among readers this year.
Aven Green Sleuthing Machine
Dusti Bowling
Age range 6 to 9 Get ready for a whole new chapter in the life of Aven Green, the remarkable heroine of Dusti Bowling's Life of a Cactus series. Told in the same wry, memorable voice as the middle-grade novels, younger readers get to know Aven t
Read More View in CatalogKatie the Catsitter
Colleen Af Venable
Twelve-year-old Katie is dreading the boring summer ahead until she realizes the mysterious neighbor who hired her to catsit is one of the city's greatest supervillains.
View in CatalogKnight of the Cape
Terry Catasus Jennings
Judy Moody meets Netflix’s One Day at a Time in this first book in a new chapter book series featuring a young Cuban American girl who tries to find adventure based on the classics she read with her beloved abuela—can Dominguita become a noble kn
Read More View in CatalogMaybe Maybe Marisol Rainey
Erin Entrada Kelly
“Utterly endearing!” —Annie Barrows, New York Times-bestselling author of the Ivy + Bean books "Hilarious and heart-melting.” —Sara Pennypacker, New York Times-bestselling author of Pax Introducing eight-year-old Marisol Rainey—an ir
Read More View in CatalogPawcasso
Remy Lai
Remy Lai, the award-winning creator of Pie in the Sky makes her middle-grade graphic novel debut, Pawcasso, about the unexpected friendship between the loneliest girl in class and the coolest canine in town. "It's tail-wagging entertaining!
Read More View in CatalogSuper Detectives (Simon and Chester Book #1)
Cale Atkinson
Simon and Chester are bored...until they pretend to be detectives.
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Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
The #1 New York Times bestseller! This chapter book edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller by luminaries Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds is an essential introduction to the history of racism and antiracism in America RACE. Uh-oh. The R-word. B
Read More View in CatalogThat Thing about Bollywood
Supriya Kelkar
Bollywood takes over in this contemporary, magical middle grade novel about an Indian American girl whose world turns upside down when she involuntarily starts bursting into glamorous song-and-dance routines during everyday life. You know how in Boll
Read More View in CatalogToo Small Tola
Atinuke
Three delightful tales from a renowned Nigerian storyteller introduce a chapter-book heroine who is every bit as mighty as she is small. In a trio of droll stories, award-winning author and storyteller Atinuke debuts an endearing and enduring charact
Read More View in CatalogJo Jo Makoons
Dawn Quigley
Hello/Boozhoo—meet Jo Jo Makoons! Full of pride, joy, and plenty of humor, this first book in an all-new chapter book series by Dawn Quigley celebrates a spunky young Ojibwe girl who loves who she is. Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-ol
Read More View in CatalogWays to Grow Love
Renée Watson
Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Renée Watson continues her charming young middle grade series starring Ryan Hart, a girl who is pure spirit and sunshine. Ryan Hart and her family are back in another installment of stories ab
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