Juvenile Books • Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the main juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• The mistakes that made us : confessions from twenty poets 
   PS595.E77 M57 2024  
• I am wind : an autobiography
   QC931.4 .P65 2024
• The book of belonging : Bible stories for kind & contemplative kids
  BS550.3 .C547 2024  
• A dangerous idea : the Scopes trial, the original fight over science in schools
  KF224.S3 L48 2025
• Civic minded : what everyone should know about the US government
  LC1091 .F54 2024  
• Ukraine: remember also me : testimonies from the war 
  DK5447 .B885 2024
   

Juvenile Books • YA Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the main juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Rising from the ashes : Los Angeles, 1992 : Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a city on fire 
  F869.L89 Y66 2024 
• A greater goal : the epic battle for equal pay in women's soccer-and beyond
  GV943.25 .R84 2024  

Juvenile Books • YA Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the main juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• The dangers of artificial intelligence
  Q335.4 .K378 2025  
• Genocide
  HV6322.7 .S67 2024  
• The ballerina of Auschwitz
  BF109.E37 A3 2024  
• Represent : the unfinished fight for the vote
  JK1726 .D97 2024  
  

Juvenile Books • Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the main juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Are You Small?
  BF299.S5 W56 2023 
• Windsongs : poems about weather
  QC981.3 .F56 2024  
• I see color : an affirmation and celebration of our diverse world 
  HM1271 .B65 2024  
• A treasure of measures
  QA465 .D755 2024  
• Juneteenth
  E185.93.T4 C56 2024  
• Indigenous People's Day
  GT4995.I53 B64 2024
• Mountain of fire : the eruption and survivors of Mount St. Helens 
  QE523.S23 B37 2024  
• Your vote matters : how we elect the US president
  JK528 .K38 2024  
• Dear younger me : what 35 trailblazing women wish they'd known as girls 
  HD6054 .B69 2024  
• Censorship : what is it and how does it impact society?
  Z658.U5 M67 2024  
• Machines through the ages : from furnacaes to factories 
  TJ147 .W665 2024  

Juvenile Books • Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the main juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Puzzled : a memoir of growing up with OCD
  RJ506.O25 C66 2024  
• Determined dreamer : the story of Marie Curie
  QD22.C8 H67 2024  
• My lost freedom : a Japanese American WWII story
  D769.8.A6 T325 2024 
• Great gusts : winds of the world and the science behind them, poems
  QC930.5 .C76 2024  
• Border Crossings
  QL737.C23 C647 2023  
• Future tense : how we made artificial intelligence -- and how it will change everything
  Q335.4 .B76 2024 
  

Juvenilie Books • YA

The following books have been added to the main juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• The Enigma girls : how ten teenagers broke ciphers, kept secrets, and helped win World War II D810.C88 F54 2024 
• Remember My Story: A Girl, A Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship that Made History
  DS134.72.W54 S37 2024 
  
• Ariel crashes a train
  PZ7.5.C65 Ar 2024  
• Poemhood, our black revival : history, folklore & the Black experience: a young adult poetry anthology
  PN6109.7 .P64 2024  
• The gulf
  PN6733.S625 G85 2024 
  

Juvenile Books • Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the main juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Give
  BJ1533.G4 A68 2023
  
• Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality
  LC214.23.N46 N45 2023
• A Whole World of Art: A Time-Traveling Trip Through A Whole World of Art
  N5308.P45 2023
• Come and Join Us: 18 Holiday's Celebrated All Year Long
  GT3933.K54 2023
• 12 Hacks to Beat Bullying
  BF637.B85 H43 2023
• Tomfollery! Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-of-Age of Children's Books
  NC978.5.C3 M375 2023
• Water on Mars
  QB643.W38 C43 2024
• Run and Hide
  D804.48.B76 2023
  

Juvenile Books • Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• The 21: the True Story of the Youth Who Sued the U.S. Government over climate Change
  GE230.R87 2023
• Loud and Proud: The Life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
  E840.8.C48 C55 2022
• A Few Beautiful Minutes; Experiencing a Solar Eclipse
  QB541.5.F68 2023
• They Hold the Line: Wildfires, Wildlands, and the Firefighters Who Brave Them
  SD421.23.P35 2023
• 365: How to Count a Year
  CE13.P38 2023
• My Life with Tourette Syndrome
  RJ496.T68 S38 2024
• Friend of Numbers: The Life of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan
  QA29.R3 N36 2023
• The Antiracist Kitchen: 21 Stories (and Recipes)
  HT1563.A58 2023
   

Juvenile Books • Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Tenacious: Fifteen Adventures Alongside Disabled Athletes
  GV22.5.P37 C57 2023
• Recipes for Change: 12 Dishes Inspired by a Year in Black History
  Tx715.2.A47
• When Moon Became the Moon
  QB582.H63 2023
• Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and heroism in Nazi Europe
  D804.34.S537 2023

Juvenile Books • Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge
  GN476.H38 2023
• Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives it Changed
  LC212.422.C2 S53 2023
• Your Freedom, Your Power: A Kid's Guide to the First Amendment
  KF4770.M35 2023

Juvenile Books • Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Discover Her Art: Women Artists and their Masterpieces
  N8354 .L453 2022 
• We Wait for the Sun
  KF373.R686 A3 2021
• Murder Among Friends
  HV6785 .F54 2022
• Waiting Place
  JV6346 .N39 2022
• My Big Book of Outdoors
  QH48 .H58 2022

Juvenile Books • Nonfiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
  E185.61.M359 2022
  
• In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers
  HV6432.7.B7675 2021
• Ambushed! The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield
  E687.9.J37 2021
  
• The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
  F704.T92 B43 2021
  
• Living Ghosts & Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories
  E98.F6 J5 2021
  
• The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege
  E184.A1 K444 2021
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy
  E185.615.S25 2021
• I Saw a Beautiful Woodpecker: Summer 1939
  D802.P6 S55 2021
• Understanding ADHD
  RJ506.E39 2022
• Understanding PTSD
  FJ506.H9 E39 2022
• The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life
  D639.C75 G74 2021
• Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
  E841.S54 2021
• Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans
  BL860.C75 2021
• Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist
  E185.97.M95 J46 2022
• Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
  F704.T92 C65 2021
• Punching Bag
  HV741.O35 2021
  

Juvenile Books • Nonfiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• You Can't Say That! Writers for Young People Talk about Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell
  Z658.U5 Y68 2021
• Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
  E185.61.T225 2022
• The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here
  QC903.J37 2021
• Hot Mess: How the Climate Crisis is Changing Our World
  QC903.15.F54 2021
  

Juvenile Books • YA Non-fiction

The following book have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find it shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location.

• Revolution in our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
  E185.615 .M238 2021
  

Juvenile Books: Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location within the juvenile collection.

• Chance: Escape from the Holocaust
  DS134.72.S538 A3 2020
• How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure
  TL789.8.U6 A58 2020
• Real Talk About Sex and Consent: What Every Teen Needs to Know
  HQ35.B8134 2020

Juvenile Books: YA Non Fiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, outside of the IRC, or in their regular location within the juvenile collection.

• Talk: Conversations About Race, Love, & Truth
  E185.61.T19 2020
• Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States
  HN59.2.B54 2020
• Guardians of Liberty: Freedom of the Press and the Nature of News
  PN4738 .O73 2020
• US Constitution: Decoded, Annotated, and Explained
  KF4550.Z9 K46 2020
• True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Identifying and Fighting Fake News
  PN4784.F27 O85 2020
• Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for their Lives and Warned the Nation
  RA1231.L4 C58 2020
• Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
  JK1994.A37 2020

Juvenile Books: Nonfiction & YA Nonfiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, or in their regular location within the juvenile collection.

• Kindness Book
  BJ1533.K5 P37 2019
• Ona Judge Outwits the Washingtons: An Enslaved Woman Fights for Fredom
  E444.J83 H66 2019
• Monument Maker
  NB237.F7 S94 2019
• Defining and Discussing Free Speech
  JC591.M54 D44 2019
• Blue Planet: Life in Our Oceans and Rivers
  GB662.3 B88 2019
• One Person, No Vote
  JA1924.A54 2019
• Encyclopedia of American Indian History & Culture: Stories, Timelines, Maps, and More
  E77.4 .E53 2019

Juvenile Books: YA Nonfiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, or in their regular location within the juvenile collection.

• Putting Peace First
  JZ5579 .D39 2018
• Pride Guide: A Guide to Sexual and Social Health for LGBTQ Youth
  HQ76.27.Y68 L36 2018
• Spooked: How a Radio Broadcast and War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
  PN1991.77.W3 J37 2018

Juvenile Books: Nonfiction

The following books have been added to the juvenile circulating collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display on the second floor, directly outside of the IRC, or in their regular location within the juvenile collection.

• Bacteria Book
  QR57.M68 2018
• Look at the Weather
  QC981.3.T4313 2018
• Truth About Bears
  QL737.C27 E25 2018
• Big Book of the Blue
  QL122.2 Z66 2018
• Hot Air Balloons
  TL638 .B48 2018
• Trains
  TL148 .G4594 2018
• Putting Peace First

2018 Alex Awards

The following Alex Award winning books have been added to the library's recreational reading collection. You will find them shelved in the new books display in the reference area on the main floor of the library or in their regular location on the main floor.

"The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing." - About the Alex Awards, YALSA 

Titles were purchased with funds from the Dean endowment for juvenile fiction.

• Clockwork Dynasty: A Novel
  PS3623 .I57796 C58 2017
• Hope More Powerful than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
  HV640.5 .S97 F54 2017
• Roughneck
  PN6733 .L45 R68 2017
• She Rides Shotgun
  PS3608 .A7736 S44 2017
• Things We Have in Common
  PR6111 .A868 T48 2017
• Unkindness of Magicians
  PS3608.O9246 U55 2017

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