Oct 24, 2025
Six Fall Shining Stars You Need On Your Shelf
This September, we published 6 outstanding books that received three or more starred reviews. Hopefully these have already earned a place on your shelves, but if you somehow missed them, here’s a reminder!
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Oct 22, 2025
Wonderful Books Coming This Winter
2026 has a lot in store for you! We’re thrilled to present some amazing new books from favorite creators like Kevin Henkes and Kate Messner alongside exciting debuts and anticipated sequels.
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Oct 14, 2025
9 New Books to Celebrate Black Voices All Year Long
It’s always a great time to #shakeupyourshelves and we’re celebrating Black voices all year long! This fall brings us beautiful and informative new picture books, a highly anticipated new Nic Blake book from Angie Thomas, and an edge-of-your-seat thriller from Tiffany D. Jackson. Scroll down to see which books you should add to your shelves (hint: it’s all of them!).
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Sep 30, 2025
Spooky Stories for Fall
Spooky season is officially here! If your readers are anything like those in my life, they’re clambering for scary books all year long. Here’s some of our favorites to frighten this fall.
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Sep 18, 2025
Read Out Loud, Laugh Out Loud with Hysterical New Picture Books
We’ve shared plenty of books over the years that help teachers and librarians focus on social-emotional learning skills with their readers. It’s important to be able to recognize and regulate one’s emotions, but it’s also important to encourage positive emotions, peer-bonding, and joyful learning. All of those can come from a laugh-out-loud storytime! Scroll down to see some new picture books that are sure to bring mirth to young readers and build a positive association with books while fostering community.
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Sep 18, 2025
Behind the Book: The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson
New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson delivers another stunning, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller, following a freshman girl whose college life is turned upside down when her roommate’s ex-convict brother moves into their dorm and starts controlling their every move.
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Sep 10, 2025
Celebrate Indigenous Voices with These 6 Titles
The month of November is dedicated as Native American Heritage Month. We feel the best way to celebrate is with authentic and heartfelt stories reflecting the diversity of the Indigenous experience in the United States and Canada. Read on to hear about 6 authentic Indigenous stories for readers of all ages.
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Sep 10, 2025
Behind the Book: Wally Mammoth by Corey R. Tabor and Dalton Webb
Introducing Wally Mammoth, a giggle-inducing picture book series about friendship and cupcakes that is perfect for emerging readers by multiple Geisel Award winner Corey R. Tabor and illustrator Dalton Webb. For fans of Elephant and Piggie and Narwhal and Jelly.
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Sep 9, 2025
Murder and Mystery: Seven Intriguing Teen Reads for Fall
Thrillers, mysteries, dystopian epics… these books are sure to keep your teen readers on the edge of their seats this fall.
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Sep 4, 2025
Silenced Voices: Educator’s Resources
Silenced Voices, a graphic novel by Pablo Leon, is a great tool to use with teen readers to teach about the history of Guatemala while instilling empathy and starting important conversations about global politics. We asked librarian and educator Julia Torres to create a blog post to guide people using this book in their classrooms and libraries.
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Aug 22, 2025
Five Fabulous Books for Transitional Readers
Building a life-long love of reading means ensuring readers at all ages and reading levels find quality books that they enjoy. For readers working through the transition from picture books and early readers to chapter books, it’s important to strike the right balance. The right books for transitional readers build comprehension skills through longer narratives split into chapters. They include illustrations and plenty of white space to break up the text and support vocabulary development. They feature engaging characters, funny situations, or other high-interest topics to keep kids wanting to come back for more. Below are some of our favorite books for this important reading level. As a bonus, all of these are the part of series, so once readers fall in love they’ll have plenty more to read!
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Aug 20, 2025
Behind the Book: Scarlet Morning by ND Stevenson
We celebrate the 10th anniversary of the publication of Nimona by ND Stevenson this year. And now we have even more to celebrate as Stevenson brings us a breathtaking illustrated novel, the start of a duology, following two orphans who leave the only home they’ve ever known to sail with an eccentric crew of pirates.
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Aug 6, 2025
13 Books to Read This Hispanic Heritage Month
It’s almost time for Hispanic Heritage Month, celebrated each year from September 15 – October 15. Latino and Latina students are highly underrepresented in children’s literature. It is especially important to have a collection of Latine books that represents the diversity of languages, cultures, ethnicities, and nationalities within the larger Latine community. We’ve gathered a few of our favorite books by Latine creators to help you #shakeupyourshelves this month and every month!
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Aug 5, 2025
Start Your Year with SEL: 6 Books to Build Community
It’s the start of another school year, and students’ need to build social-emotion skills hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s a great time to start growing these foundational skills and below are a handful of our newest titles to easily introduce conversations about self-awareness, decision making, relationships, and more. We also have a fabulous series of SEL blog posts written by author, educator, and life coach Nicole D. Collier. Check them out for more book recommendations as well as tips for incorporating the 5 pillars of SEL into your daily routines and read alouds.
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Jul 30, 2025
Behind the Book: Cat Nap by Brian Lies
With lush paintings and intricately constructed 3-D artwork, bestselling and Caldecott Honor–winning author-illustrator Brian Lies introduces a sleepy kitten whose afternoon nap transforms into an epic journey through art, time, and history.
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Jul 21, 2025
Go Back to School with HarperStacks
Across the country and around the world, students will be returning to school or going for the very first times. They’ll be faced with tough decisions and new challenges alongside a lot of fun. Here are a few of our newest picture books to get your readers ready for a year full of learning, adventures, and self-discovery.
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Jul 21, 2025
Behind the Book: The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser
Karina Yan Glaser is the author of the best-selling Vanderbeekers series. Her upcoming historical fiction The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli brings readers breathtaking suspense, unforgettable characters, and a pinch of magic combine in the dual stories of two young people—one in 731 China, and one in 1931 Chinatown—on perilous journeys to save their families.
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Thank You For Joining Us at ALA Annual 2025
We had so much fun talking with all of the fabulous librarians, teachers, and creators at the annual American Library Association conference in Philadelphia. Scroll through the photos below to see just some of the highlights of this inspiring and…
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Jul 10, 2025
10 Books to Read During Disability Pride Month
July is Disability Pride Month, a time to recognize and celebrate the ways in which people with disabilities contribute to the diverse fabric of our society. Disability comes in many different forms, both visible and invisible. Disability Pride Month aims to end the marginalization of those with disabilities as well as the stigma around the term disability and instead encourage all people to recognize the value of a more inclusive world. One important way to celebrate Disability Pride Month is through reading books featuring characters living with a variety of disabilities.
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Jul 10, 2025
Behind the Book: Another by Paul Tremblay
Middle grade readers who can’t get enough horror will be clambering to read Another, the middle-grade debut from horror writer (and middle school teacher) Paul Tremblay. The story blends truly scary elements with a page-turning plot making this a great summer read.
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