And just for fun: here is Trent’s 2024 Year in Books!
Here are my five star reads from 2024 (in order of date read)!
Picture Books
- There’s No Such Thing as Vegetables by Kyle Lukoff, Illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi
- When Beavers Flew: An Incredible True Story of Rescue and Relocation by Kristen Tracy, Illustrated by Luisa Uribe
- Narwhal: Unicorn of the Artic by Candace Fleming, Illustrated by Deena So’Oteh
- Drawn Onward by Daniel Nayeri, Illustrated by Matt Rockefeller
Middle Grade
- Finally Seen by Kelly Yang
- The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day, Illustrated by Brett Helquist
- Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas
- Louder Than Hunger by John Schu
- Mountain of Fire: The Eruption and Survivors of Mount St. Helen by Rebecca E.F. Barone
- The Hotel Balzaar by Kate DiCamillo, Illustrated by Júlia Sardà
- Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase by Nathan Hale (reread)
- Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale by Nathan Hale (reread)
- Button Pusher by Tyler Page
- The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner
- On the Block: Stories of Home edited by Ellen Oh
- Big Tree by Brian Selznick
- Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes by Gail Jarrow
- New Dragon City by Mari Mancusi
Young Adult
- The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
- The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
- All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
- Rez Ball by Byron Graves
- Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
- Medusa by Jessie Burton, Illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill
- As Long as the Lemon Tree Grows by Zoulfa Katouh
- Victory, Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile
- Twenty-Four Seconds from Now… by Jason Reynolds
- The Art Thieves by Andrea L. Rogers
- Unbecoming by Seema Yasmin
- Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas
- Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy
- Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town that Looked Away by Candy J. Cooper
- Promises of Gold by José Olivarez
- Huda F Wants to Know? by Huda Fahmy
- The Queen’s Spade by Sarah Raughley
Happy reading in 2025, friends!!!
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