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Season's Readings: 2025 Staff Favourites

Each member of our team chose their favourite recently published title they read in 2025. These books are intended for kids aged 9 – 12.

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  • Mina is motivated to grow up into an Olympic ice-skater, but her whole world is turned upside down when she finds herself kidnapped by a vampiric roller-skating team. Learning how to roller skate, understanding the complexities of this new world,…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : Labyrinth Road, 2024, ©2024. — J GRAPHIX AND v.01
  • Detective Beans

    Adventures in Cat Town

    Chen, Li, 1986-
    There is something so compellingly charming about animal detective stories. There can never be too many cozy, cuddly investigators. Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town is Li Chen's follow-up to Detective Beans & the Case of the Missing Hat. This…
    Graphic Novel, 2025Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2025, ©2025. — J GRAPHIX CHE
  • Award winning suspense author Margaret Peterson Haddix is back with a new duology. Maisie finally gets a phone! It's an old phone but it is something that she can tell the other kids at school about! Unfortunately, the only reason Maisie gets a…
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, ©2025. — J HAD
  • Freya, a burgeoning activist, becomes enraged she finds out that the celebrated namesake of her town was against women's suffrage. In reaction, Freya and her new friend Callie publish a strongly-worded opinion piece on the town's website, which…
    Book, 2025New York : Aladdin, ©2025. — J DEE
  • Fox spirit Clare serves as the Deadwood Forest's Usher, guiding animal spirits to one of four afterlives: Peace, Pleasure, Progress and Pain. When a badger spirit arrives and Clare is unable to guide her to any afterlife, he realizes that she is…
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, ©2025. — J HAR
  • A follow-up to the wonderfully offbeat and charming Wizkit: An Adventure Overdue, author-illustrator Tanya J. Scott returns with with more adventures in this sparklingly funny and quirky graphic novel. Following protagonist Wizkit, a feline cyclops…
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2025, ©2025. — J GRAPHIX SCO v.02