We've curated a list of some truly wonderful and entertaining bug books for kids ages 4 to 99. We've also included the game Bug Bingo, and it's the bees-knees.
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JacketFlap tags: Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Book Lists, Nature, Science, Butterflies, Bugs, featured, DK Publishing, Animal Books, National Geographic Children's Books, Nature Studies, Sterling Children's Books, Environment & Ecology, Detective Books, Bugs & Spiders, Princeton Architectural Press, Nancy Honovich, Backyard Books, Books About Flies, Charlotte Caldwell, Christine Berrie, Darlyne Murawski, Kathrina Iris, Maggie Li, Rachel Elizabeth Cole, Tangled Oak Press, University of South Carolina Press, Add a tag
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JacketFlap tags: HarperCollins, Magic, Ages 9-12, Chapter Books, Author Interviews, featured, The Keepers, Fantasy: Supernatural Fiction, Ted Sanders, Selfie and a Shelfie, Add a tag
Check out Ted Sanders’ Selfie with The Keepers: The Harp and the Ravenvine, the second in the magical series that began with The Box and the Dragonfly.
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JacketFlap tags: Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Historical Fiction, Chapter Books, Author Interviews, Social Justice, featured, Books for Boys, Immigrants, Justice, Animal Rights, Deborah Hopkinson, Homelessness & Poverty, 19th Century Books, Books Set in New York, Books with Pickpockets, Street Musicians, Add a tag
Deborah Hopkinson is the award-winning author of more than 45 books for young readers.
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JacketFlap tags: Writing Resources, Ages 9-12, Chapter Books, Books for Girls, Art Of Writing, Strong Female Characters, Fantasy: Supernatural Fiction, Kathy Dawson Books, Django Wexler, Add a tag
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JacketFlap tags: HarperCollins, Ages 9-12, Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction, Book Lists, Chapter Books, featured, Rachel Caine, Cindy Pon, Henry Holt and Co., Disney-Hyperion, Teens: Young Adults, Lyndsay Faye, Leigh Bardugo, Best Kids Stories, Best YA, Soman Chainani, Alexander Bracken, Lilah Bowen, Month9Books LLC, Paul Trembly, Add a tag
We're living in a golden age of great fiction ... so many beautiful works being published every month, and it's become a real paradise for readers, whatever they like to read.
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JacketFlap tags: featured, Boyds Mills Press, Geology, Animal Books, Nature Studies, Environment & Ecology, Speed Interview, Daniel Levitin, Donald Kroodsma, Jeff Sayre, Kenn Kaufman, Kim Kaufman, Liz Cunningham, Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Science, Chapter Books, Author Interviews, April Pulley Sayre, Add a tag
Which five words best describe The Slowest Book Ever? April Pulley Sayre: Chewy science for wondrous pondering.
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JacketFlap tags: Magic, Ages 9-12, Fantasy, Art, Chapter Books, featured, Author Showcase, Books for Girls, Magical Creatures, Fantasy: Supernatural Fiction, Loss of a Grandparent, Books with Portal Travel, Marc Remus, Add a tag
The Gallery of Wonders, by Marc Remus, is an incredibly engaging middle grade book for ages nine and up—especially those that dabble in art, magic, and defending against the dark arts.
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JacketFlap tags: Ages 4-8, Katherine Paterson, Ages 9-12, Summer, Chapter Books, Cynthia Rylant, Author Interviews, Adoption, featured, Summer reading, Books for Girls, Kate DiCamillo, Friendships, Middle Grade Books, Peter Catalanotto, Summer Camp Stories, Nancy J. Cavanaugh, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, Add a tag
Just Like Me, by Nancy J. Cavanaugh, is a funny, uplifting summer camp story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world from the award-winning author of This Journal Belongs to Ratchet.
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JacketFlap tags: Harry Potter, HarperCollins, J.K. Rowling, Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Book Lists, The New York Times, Kids Series, featured, Arthur A. Levine Books, Jeff Kinney, Best Sellers, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amulet Books, Ransom Riggs, Quirk Books, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Lincoln Peirce, Veronica Roth, Divergent, Teens: Young Adults, Best Kids Stories, Best Selling Books, Carole P. Roman, Best Selling Books For Kids, Captain No Beard, Big Nate, Bonnie Lemaire, Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, Add a tag
This month’s best selling kids series from The Children’s Book Review’s affiliate store Captain No Beard, by award-winning author Carole P. Roman, is an imaginative picture book series loved by all.
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JacketFlap tags: J.K. Rowling, Ages 9-12, Book Lists, Chapter Books, featured, Wendy Lamb Books, Jacqueline Woodson, Arthur A. Levine Books, Polly Horvath, Middle Grade Books, Laura Shovan, Sarah Dooley, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, Teens: Young Adults, Nancy Paulsen Books, Best Kids Stories, Speak Books, Square Fish Books, Add a tag
It’s always difficult to narrow down the teetering pile of “Books I Loved” and the tottering pile of “Books to be Read” to a manageable number. Here are just a few middle grade novels author Sarah Dooley loved, and a few more she's looking forward to reading.
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JacketFlap tags: Mysteries, Ages 9-12, Chapter Books, Coming of Age, Loss, Ghosts, Books for Girls, Middle Grade Books, Unsolved Mysteries, Lauren DeStefano, Fantasy: Supernatural Fiction, Social Graces, Supernatural Powers Books, books about loss, Add a tag
A Curious Tale of the In-Between will appeal to young people who like ghost stories and the supernatural and who have issues of loss and unsolved mysteries in their own lives.
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JacketFlap tags: Books for Girls, Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Picture Books, Art, Author Interviews, Historical Fiction, Yuyi Morales, France, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Paris, Artists, Author Interview, Kevin Henkes, featured, Komako Sakai, My Writing and Reading Life, Alexandra S.D. Hinrichs, Renée Graef, Seventeenth Century Books, Add a tag
Alexandra S. D. Hinrichs, author of Thérèse Makes a Tapestry, loves exploring new places, including France, where she once studied.
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JacketFlap tags: Family, Friendship, Adventure, Ages 9-12, Classics, Romance, Chapter Books, Time Travel, Madeleine L'Engle, Award Winners, Fantasy: Supernatural Fiction, Best Kids Stories, Add a tag
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JacketFlap tags: Ages 4-8, Adventure, Ages 9-12, Chapter Books, Australia, Books for Boys, Australian, Environment & Ecology, Mystery, featured, Australian Authors, Danny Pinn, Julian Ledlin, Mysteries, Add a tag
Complete with bush walks and a vegemite sandwich, Johnny Foolish is an Australian tale worthy of a read—too right!
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JacketFlap tags: Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Giveaways, Fairy Tales, Chapter Books, Author Interviews, Fractured Fairy Tales, Little Red Riding Hood, featured, Books for Girls, Fantasy: Supernatural Fiction, Liesl Shurtliff, Selfie and a Shelfie, Add a tag
Don’t miss Liesl Shurtliff’s new dark, humorous stand-alone middle grade novel RED: THE TRUE STORY OF RED RIDING HOOD (on sale April 12, 2016)!
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JacketFlap tags: Ages 9-12, Dance, Sports, Ballet, Non-Fiction, Chapter Books, Black History Month, Author Interviews, Adoption, African American Authors, Memoirs, African American, featured, Dancing, Orphans, Books for Girls, African American History Month, Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas D. Kristof, Teens: Young Adults, Elaine DePrince, Michaela DePrince, Add a tag
The extraordinary memoir of Michaela DePrince, a young dancer who escaped war-torn Sierra Leone for the rarefied heights of American ballet.
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JacketFlap tags: Ages 4-8, Adventure, Ages 9-12, Chapter Books, Action, Dystopian, Middle Grade Books, Yearling, Peggy Eddleman, Add a tag
Sky Jumpers depicts a post-apocalyptic world after World War III. Its spunky heroine, Hope Toriella, her best friend, Aaren, and their acquaintance, Brock, are risk-takers who like to climb the cliff at the town’s edge, hold their breaths, and jump through the Bomb’s Breath.
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JacketFlap tags: Multicultural, Ages 9-12, Chapter Books, Chronicle Books, Middle Grade Books, Hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, Juliet T. Lamana, Add a tag
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere will appeal to young people who have had to cope with catastrophe and its aftermath.
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JacketFlap tags: Lisbeth Zwerger, Family Favorites, John Archambault, Best Kids Stories, Dutton Books for Young Readers, HarperCollins, Ages 0-3, Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Giveaways, Garth Williams, Book Lists, Book Giveaway, featured, Lois Ehlert, Paul O. Zelinsky, Bill Martin Jr., Beverly Cleary, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, E. B. White, Add a tag
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JacketFlap tags: Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Teens: Young Adults, Best Kids Stories, Carina Axelsson, Model Undercover series, Brain Twisters, Mysteries, Philip Pullman, Ages 9-12, Book Lists, Chapter Books, Fashion, Nancy Drew, London, England, featured, Great Britain, Agatha Christie, Books into Movies, Add a tag
Mysteries and London go together like tea and cake or jeans and Converse. Although not all of my favourite English mysteries take place in London, many do. Here are three (okay, maybe a few more than just three) of my top mystery novels set in London.
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JacketFlap tags: Nancy Paulsen Books, My Writing and Reading Life, Books Set in Alaska, Books Set in Wisconsin, Travel, Ages 9-12, Garth Williams, Chapter Books, Author Interviews, Laura Ingalls Wilder, featured, Books for Girls, Carole Estby Dagg, Katherine Patterson, Kate Morton, Pioneer Books, Add a tag
Sweet Home Alaska, by Carole Estby Dagg, is an exciting pioneering story, based on actual events, and introduces readers to a fascinating chapter in American history, when FDR set up a New Deal colony in Alaska to give loans and land to families struggling during the Great Depression.
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JacketFlap tags: Series Books, The New York Times, James Dashner, Jeff Kinney, Ransom Riggs, Quirk Books, Veronica Roth, J.K. Rowling, Ages 9-12, Book Lists, featured, Arthur A. Levine Books, Delacorte Press, Amulet Books, Teens: Young Adults, Best Kids Stories, Best Selling Books For Kids, Add a tag
This month's our list of hand-selected series from the nationwide best selling Children's Series list, as noted by The New York Times, features James Dashner's Maze Runner series and Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series.
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JacketFlap tags: Victoria Aveyard, Viking Books for Young Readers, Terry Fan, The Fan Brothers, HarperCollins, Ages 0-3, Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Book Lists, Sara Pennypacker, Kevin Henkes, featured, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, HarperTeen, Candlewick, Razorbill, Roaring Brook Press, Jarvis, Judith Viorst, Knopf Books for Young Readers, Cale Atkinson, Doreen Cronin, Megan McDonald, David Small, Dan Gutman, Douglas Florian, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Julia Donaldson, Jon Klassen, Peter Reynolds, Balzer + Bray, Greenwillow Books, Lydia Monks, Lee White, Disney-Hyperion, Ruta Sepetys, Marissa Meyer, Laura Dronzek, G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, Teens: Young Adults, Julie Falatko, Best Books for Kids, Best Kids Stories, Jessica Khoury, Feiwel & Friends, Jess Keating, Popular Kids Stories, Best New Kids Books, Melissa Landers, Eric Fan, Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, Heidi Heilig, little bee books, Rebecca Roher, Tundra Books, Tim Miller, Vikki VanSickle, Sonia Sanchez, Steve Light, Tommy Greenwald, Add a tag
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JacketFlap tags: Adventure, Ages 9-12, Chapter Books, San Francisco, featured, Middle Grade Books, Books Set in San Francisco Bay Area, Lily Padula, M. Quint, McSweeney's Books, Misfit, Add a tag
The Defiant will appeal to middle grade and young adult readers interested in adventure, mystery, and eerie situations.
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JacketFlap tags: Ages 4-8, Ages 9-12, Animals, Chapter Books, Zoo, Gorilla, Katherine Applegate, Best Sellers, Newbery Award Winners, Animal Books, Patricia Castelao, Best Kids Stories, Newbery Medal Winners, Apes and Monkeys, Add a tag
The One and Only Ivan is a bestselling novel about hope and friendship. It was inspired by a real silverback gorilla named Ivan who was held captive for 27 years.
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