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    Looking for a good book to read?  Check out some of the titles on the recommended summer reading lists!  Great books for reading any time of year!

    Best Books of 2024

    March Is Women's History Month!

    Read about one of these amazing women who helped shape history!

    ISBN: 9781338335255
    Title: She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
    Author: Clinton, Chelsea, author.
    ISBN: 9780062699459
    Title: Shaking things up : 14 young women who changed the world
    Author: Hood, Susan, 1954- author.
    ISBN: 9781534436640
    Title: HerStory : 50 women and girls who shook up the world
    Author: Halligan, Katherine (Children's book editor), author.
    ISBN: 9781250751430
    Title: Real princesses change the world
    Author: Pearson, Carrie A., author.
    ISBN: 9781536215540
    Title: How do you spell unfair? : MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
    Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- author.
    ISBN: 9781524720643
    Title: Sweet justice : Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Author: Rockliff, Mara, author.
    ISBN: 9780061804427
    Title: Brave girl : Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
    Author: Markel, Michelle.
    ISBN: 9781250220950
    Title: Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
    Author: Joy, Angela, 1975- author.
    ISBN: 9780759554955
    Title: The fearless flights of Hazel Ying Lee
    Author: Leung, Julie, author.
    ISBN: 9780593326404
    Title: Because Claudette
    Author: Baptiste, Tracey, author.
    ISBN: 9781338283419
    Title: Jovita wore pants : the story of a Mexican freedom fighter
    Author: Salazar, Aida, author.
    ISBN: 9780063056619
    Title: Milloo's mind : the story of Maryam Faruqi, trailblazer for women's education
    Author: Faruqi, Reem, author.
    ISBN: 9781250842671
    Title: She kept dancing : the true story of a professional dancer with a limb difference
    Author: Mesher, Sydney, author.
    ISBN: 9781454934578
    Title: Dare to Question : Carrie Chapman Catt's voice for the vote
    Author: Stirling, Jasmine A., author.
    ISBN: 9781454932208
    Title: Queen of physics : how Wu Chien Shiung helped unlock the secrets of the atom
    Author: Robeson, Teresa, 1964- author.
    ISBN: 9781481465595
    Title: I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark
    Author: Levy, Debbie, author.
    ISBN: 9781728276533
    Title: The girl who figured it out
    Author: Dentler, Minda, author.
    ISBN: 9781635925319
    Title: One of a kind : the life of Sydney Taylor
    Author: Michelson, Richard, author.

    Get Ready for the 250th and Learn About the American Revolution!

    ISBN: 9781567116199
    Title: The Battle of Lexington and Concord
    Author: Parker, Lewis K.
    ISBN: 9781596432215
    Title: Let it begin here! : April 19, 1775 : the day the American Revolution began
    Author: Brown, Don, 1949-
    ISBN: 9781635170238
    Title: The Battles of Lexington and Concord : start of the American Revolution
    Author: Mara, Wil, author.
    ISBN: 9781666341560
    Title: The battles of Lexington and Concord : a day that changed America
    Author: Kerry, Isaac, author.
    ISBN: 9781368026833
    Title: Most wanted : the revolutionary partnership of John Hancock & Samuel Adams
    Author: Marsh, Sarah Jane, author.
    ISBN: 9781629793412
    Title: Revolutionary rogues : John André and Benedict Arnold
    Author: Castrovilla, Selene, 1966- author.
    ISBN: 9781094255910
    Title: A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
    Author: Rockwell, Anne F., author.
    ISBN: 9781644720578
    Title: Revolutionary Prudence Wright : leading the Minute Women in the fight for independence
    Author: Anderson, Beth, 1954- author.
    ISBN: 9780593120460
    Title: The American Revolution
    Author: Messner, Kate, author.
    ISBN: 9781503854413
    Title: African Americans and the Revolutionary War
    Author: Harper, Judith E., 1953- author.
    ISBN: 9781580899338
    Title: Why Longfellow lied : the truth about Paul Revere's midnight ride
    Author: Lantos, Jeff, author.
    ISBN: 9781429692847
    Title: Great women of the American Revolution
    Author: Hall, Brianna.

    2025 Mrs. Conant Book Award

    ISBN: 9798822682153
    Title: Slugfest
    Author: Korman, Gordon, author.
    ISBN: 9781665902168
    Title: Out of my heart
    Author: Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills), author.
    ISBN: 9781419746970
    Title: The last human
    Author: Bacon, Lee, author.
    ISBN: 0063006561
    Title: The last beekeeper
    Author: Cartaya, Pablo, author.
    ISBN: 9781772780338
    Title: Macy McMillan and the rainbow goddess
    Author: Green, Shari, 1963- author.
    ISBN: 9781250767820
    Title: The magical imperfect
    Author: Baron, Chris (Christopher Leigh), author.
    ISBN: 9780241589779
    Title: You vs the world : the Bear Grylls guide to never giving up.
    Author: Grylls, Bear, author.
    ISBN: 9781536209457
    Title: All thirteen : the incredible cave rescue of the Thai boys' soccer team
    Author: Soontornvat, Christina, author.
    ISBN: 9781328841629
    Title: Where the black flowers bloom
    Author: Smith, Ronald L. (Ronald Lenard), 1959- author.
    ISBN: 9780062657954
    Title: The turning
    Author: Whitman, Emily, author.
    ISBN: 9781368005821
    Title: Charlie & Frog : a mystery
    Author: Kane, Karen, 1965- author.
    ISBN: 9780358003199
    Title: Winterborne Home for vengeance and valor
    Author: Carter, Ally, author.
    ISBN: 9780593406601
    Title: A seed in the sun
    Author: Salazar, Aida, author.
    ISBN: 9780759556782
    Title: Cookies & milk
    Author: Amos, Shawn, author.
    ISBN: 0807574570
    Title: Small steps : the year I got polio
    Author: Kehret, Peg.
    ISBN: 9781683693710
    Title: Kid Olympians. Summer : true tales of childhood from champions and game changers
    Author: Stevenson, Robin, 1968- author.

    2024 - 2025 MCBA Nominees

    ISBN: 9781452182513
    Title: BenBee and the teacher griefer
    Author: Holt, K. A., author, illustrator.
    ISBN: 9780316461382
    Title: Shark summer
    Author: Marcks, Ira, author.
    ISBN: 9780063044715
    Title: Unsettled
    Author: Faruqi, Reem
    ISBN: 9781328515131
    Title: The one thing you'd save
    Author: Park, Linda Sue, author.
    ISBN: 9781662504273
    Title: Piece by piece : how I built my life (no instructions required)
    Author: Aguilar, David, author.
    ISBN: 9780062999368
    Title: Anybody here seen Frenchie?
    Author: Connor, Leslie, author.
    ISBN: 9780593462287
    Title: Mexikid : a graphic memoir
    Author: Martin, Pedro, 1967- author, artist.
    ISBN: 9780062499691
    Title: Violet and Jobie in the wild
    Author: Perkins, Lynne Rae, author, illustrator.
    ISBN: 9781536201369
    Title: Hoops
    Author: Tavares, Matt, author, illustrator.
    ISBN: 9781547609772
    Title: The Vanquishers
    Author: Bayron, Kalynn, author.
    ISBN: 9781547600564
    Title: Ways to make sunshine
    Author: Watson, Renée, author.
    ISBN: 9780008297350
    Title: A case of grave danger
    Author: Cleverly, Sophie, 1989- author.
    ISBN: 9780063047679
    Title: The unforgettable Logan Foster
    Author: Peters, Shawn, 1971- author.
    ISBN: 9780063056770
    Title: Swim team
    Author: Christmas, Johnnie, author, artist.
    ISBN: 9780063113923
    Title: A rover's story
    Author: Warga, Jasmine, author.
    ISBN: 9780759556270
    Title: Ellen outside the lines
    Author: Sass, A. J., author.
    ISBN: 9780358272755
    Title: The year I flew away
    Author: Arnold, Marie, author.
    ISBN: 9781984813305
    Title: The best of Iggy
    Author: Barrows, Annie, author.
    ISBN: 9781338159349
    Title: Lety out loud
    Author: Cervantes, Angela, author.
    ISBN: 9780063118782
    Title: Small town pride
    Author: Stamper, Phil, author.
    ISBN: 9780063091924
    Title: Nikhil out loud
    Author: Pancholy, Maulik, 1974- author.
    ISBN: 9780593566183
    Title: Something like home
    Author: Arango, Andrea Beatriz, author.
    ISBN: 9780062985941
    Title: Stowaway
    Author: Anderson, John David, 1975- author.
    ISBN: 1250268850
    Title: Frogs : awesome amphibians
    Author: Prince, Liz, author, illustrator.
    ISBN: 9780593530122
    Title: When impossible happens
    Author: Suza, Jane de, author.