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Books for Consideration SAC Meeting 01/13/2025
Name of Book
Author
Publisher Age Range
RecommendationBooklist Age Range
RecommendationDon’t Let The Forest In
C G Drews
Ages 13-18
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpThe Wild Huntress
Emily Lloyd-Jones
Ages 7 & Up
Booklist: Grades 8-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 7 & UpMaterial World: the six raw materials that shape modern civilization
Ed Conway
Adult
Adult
Fake Famous
Dana L. Davis
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 9-11
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & UpThe Terrifying Tales of Vivian Vance
Josh Ulrich
Ages 12
Booklist: Grades 7-12
Kirkus: Ages 12-14
School Library Journal: Grades 7 & UpNight Owls
Ages 13 & Up
Booklist: Grades 8-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18The Story of a Heart
Dr. Rachel Clarke
Adult
Adult
Discovering Life’s Story: Biology’s Beginnings
Joy Hakim
Ages 14 & Up
Booklist: Grades 8-11
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & UpAisle Nine
Ian Cho
Ages 13 & Up
Booklist: Grades 8-12
Kirkus: Ages 12-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 13 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpThe Great Black Hope
Louis Moore
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 7 & UpHeist Royale
Kayvion Lewis
Young Adult
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
The Art of Us
Julie Wright
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 9-11
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & UpRani Choudhury Must Die
Adiba Jaigirdar
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 7-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 7 & UpThe Serviceberry
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Adult
Adult
In Want of a Suspect
Tirzah Price
Age 14 & Up
Booklist: Grades 8-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18Sharks Don’t Sink
Jasmin Graham
Adult
Adult
The Paranormal Ranger
Stanley Milford Jr.
Adult
Adult
Ruin Road
Lamar Giles
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpUs in Ruins
Rachel Moore
Ages 13 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 12-18
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpBetter, Faster, Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
Maggie Mertens
Adult
Adult
Medici Heist
Caitlin Schneiderhan
Ages 13 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 13 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & UpWith Love Echo Park
Laura Namey
Young Adult
Kirkus: Ages 12-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & UpUnder the Surface
Diana Urban
Ages 14 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpBooks for Consideration SAC Meeting 11/04/2024
Name of Book
Author
Publisher Age Range
RecommendationBooklist Age Range
RecommendationMarked Man
John Floria
Ages 12-18
Booklist: Grades 7-10
Kirkus: Ages 12-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 10 & UpThe Enigma Girls
Candace Fleming
Ages 8 & Up
Booklist: Grades 7-11
Kirkus: Ages 9-14
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & UpInto the Sunken City
Dinesh Thiru
Ages 13 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 13 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpEllie Haycock is Totally Normal
Gretchen Schreiber
Ages 12-18
Booklist: Grades 8-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 7 & UpBreathing Underwater
Abbey Lee Nash
Ages 14 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpDropped
Alice Kuipers
Grades 8-12
Ages 12 & UpKirkus: Ages 12-18
Into the Sunken City
Dinish Thiru
Ages 13 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 10 & UpSix Truths and Lie
Ream Shukairy
Grades 7 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 13 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpThe Other Lola
Ripley Jones
Ages 13-18
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Ryan and Avery
David Levithan
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 7 & UpHave You Seen This Girl
Nita Tyndall
Ages 13 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 13 & UpBad Graces
Kyrie McCauley
Ages 13 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18Spilled Ink
Nadia Hashimi
Ages 13 & Up
Booklist: Grades 8-11
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 13 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpSleepless in Dubai
Sajni Patel
Grades 8 & Up
Booklist: Grades 8-11
Kirkus: Ages 13-18Dark Star Burning, Ash Fall White
Amelie Wen Zhaodar
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Coming Home
Brittney Griner
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Kirkus Reviews: Adult
Sociopath A Memoir
Patric Gagne, PHD
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Booklist: Adult
Kirkus: Adult
Publishers Weekly: AdultIcon and Inferno
Marie Lu
Young Adult
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Darker by Four
June Tan
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 10-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & UpJust Add Water
Katie Ledecky
Adult
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Spilled Ink
Nadia Hashimi
Age 13 & Up
Booklist: Grades 8-11
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 13 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpThe End of Always
Rebecca Phillips
Ages 13-18
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & Up
And Then There Was US
Kern Carter
Age 14
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
School Library Journal: Grades 10 & UpShift Happens: The History of Labor In The United States
J. Albert Mann
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 8-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 13 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpWhose Right Is It? The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equality
Hana Bajramovic
Ages 12-18
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 12-18
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpSnow Globe
Soyoung Park
Young Adult
Publishers Weekly: Young Adult
Wild Dreamers
Margarita Engle
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 7-10
Kirkus: Ages 12-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 7 & UpTwo Sides to Every Murder
Danielle Valentine
Ages 12 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 12-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpThe Darkness Rises
Stacy Stokes
Ages 14 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpRoad Home
Rex Ogle
Ages 14-18
Kirkus: Ages 14-Adult
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 10 & UpThe Smoke That Thunders
Erhu Kome
Ages 12-18
Booklist: Grades 7-10
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & UpShackled
Candy Copper
Ages 13-17
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 12-16
School Library Journal: Grades 7 & UpHurdles in the Dark
Elvira Gonzalez
Ages 14-18
Booklist: Grades 8-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & UpOur Wicked Histories
Amy Goldsmith
Ages 14 & Up
Booklist: Grades 8-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 10 & UpWhere Was Goodbye
Janice Lynn Mather
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & UpI Will Never Leave You
Kara Kennedy
Age 12 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & UpThe 21: the True Story of the Youth Who Sued the US Government Over Climate Change
Elizabeth Rusch
Ages 13 7 Up
Booklist: Grades 6-10
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 13 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & UpThe Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
Ages 12 & Up
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Discovering Life’s Story: the Evolution of an Idea
Joy Hakim
Ages 14 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & UpNo Going Back
Patrick Flores-Scott
Ages 14-18
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & UpDead Things Are Closer
Robin Wasley
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 10-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpThe Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and the Reclamation of Their Groundbreaking History
Karen Valby
Adult
Booklist: Adult
Kirkus: Adult
Publishers Weekly: Adult
School Library Journal: AdultFuture Tense: How We Made Artificial Intelligence—and How it Will Change Everything
Martha Brockenbrough
Ages 12-18
Booklist: Grades 7-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpA Crane Among Wolves
June Hur
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 13 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & UpGwen and Art Are Not in Love
Lex Croucher
Ages 14-18
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpHow Do I Draw These Memories
Jonell Joshua
Ages 12-18
Booklist: Grades 10-12
Kirkus: Ages 15-18
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & UpSheine Lende
Darcie Little Badger
Young Adult
No Reviews Found – Middle Grades U Up for Series
Only for the Holidays
Abiola Bello
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-17
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpThe Lost Souls of Benzaiten
Kelly Murashige
Ages 14 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 12-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & UpMasquerade
O. O. Sangoyomi
Adult
Booklist: Adult
Kirkus: Adult
Publishers Weekly: Adult
School Library Journal: AdultThe House Where Death Lives
Alex Brown
Ages 14 & Up
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 14-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 10 & UpThe Blonde Dies First
Joelle Wellington
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 9 & UpCivic Minded: What Everyone Should Know About the US Government
Jeff Fleischer
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 6-12
Kirkus: Ages 12-18
School Library Journal: Grades 6 & UpThe Loss of the Burying Ground
J. Anderson Coats
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 14 & UpThe Salt Thief: Gandhi’s Heroic March to Freedom
Neal Bascomb
Grades 7 & Up
Booklist: Grades 7-10
Kirkus: Ages 12-16
School Library Journal: Grades 8 & UpThe Second Chance
David F. Walker
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 8-12
Kirkus: Ages 12-18
Publishers Weekly: Ages 12 & Up
School Library Journal: Grades 7 & UpThe Sticky Note Manifesto of Aisha Agarwal
Ambika Vohra
Young Adult
Booklist: Grades 9-12
Kirkus: Ages 13-18The Witch’s Daughter
Orenda Fink
Adult
Booklist: Adult
Kirkus: Adult
Publishers Weekly: AdultBooks for Consideration SAC Meeting 04/08/2024
- "Treacle Walker" by Alan Garner
- "Hockey girl loves drama boy" by Faith Erin Hicks
- "Breakthrough : Katalin Kariko and the mRNA vaccine" by Stephanie McPherson
- "Brooms" by Jasmine Walls
- "Rouge : a novel" by Mona Awad
- "What the river knows : a novel (Secrets of the Nile, Book 1)" by Isabel Ibanez
- "Caught in a bad fauxmance" by Elle Rose
- "Seven minutes in Candyland" by Brian Wasson
- "With or without you" by Eric Smith
- "Ruthless vows : a novel (Letters of Enchantment, Book 2)" by Rececca Ross
- "Ruth Asawa : an artist takes shape" by Sam Nakahira
- "Out of body" by N. Davenport
- "Out of our league : 16 stories of girls in sports" by Feiwel & Friends
- "Thieves' gambit" by Kayvion Lewis
- "The future of geography : how the competition in space will change our world" by Tim Marshall
- "Run and hide : how Jewish youth escaped the Holocaust" by Don Brown
- "Facing the enemy : how a Nazi youth camp in America tested a friendship" by Barbara Krasner
- "The race to be myself : a memoir" by Caster Semenya
- "Einstein in time and space : a life in 99 particles" by Samuel Graydon
- "Yours from the tower" by Sally Nicholls
- "Only she came back" by Margot Harrison
- "Sleepless in Dubai" by Sanji Patel
- "Dark star burning, ash falls white" by Amelie Zhao
- "Dear Black girls : how to be true to you" by A'ka Wilson
- "We got the beat" by Jenna Miller
- "Teen killers at large : a novel (Teen Killers Club, Book 3)" by Lily Sparks
- "Witchcraft : a history in thirteen trials" by Marion Gibson
- "A place for vanishing" by Ann Fraistat
- "Pieces of a Girl" by Stephanie Kuehnert
- "Tender beasts" by Liselle Sambury
- "with a little luck" by Marissa Meyer
Books for Consideration SAC Meeting 03/04/2024
- "Into the Bright Open - A Secret Garden Remix" by Cherie Dimaline
- "Rez Ball" by Byron Graves
- "The Narrow" by Kate Alice Marshall
- "Disappearing Act : A True Story" by Jiordan Castle
- "The Caretaker" by Ron Tash
- "Ryan and Avery" by David Leviathan
- "Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass : The Graphic Novel" by Mel Valentine Vargas
- "The Lost Wife" by Alfred A. Knopf
- "You Don't Have A Shot" by Racquel Marie
- "Flight Plan" by Eric Walters
- "The Only Girl In Town" by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
- "The Space Between Here and Now" by Sarah Suk
- "What Stalks Among Us" by Sarah Hollowell
- "The Six : The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts" by Loren Grush