Seattle Staff Faves 2024: Kids Chapter Books, Graphic Novels & Nonfiction
Every year we ask our staff across the library system for their favorite books published in a given year. Enjoy this list of some of our favorite chapter books, graphic novels and nonfiction books for kids - some with staff annotations, and some with annotations from Kirkus, School Library Journal, and others.
-
Warrior on the Mound
MIDDLE GRADE NOVEL / It’s 1939, and an African American tween in North Carolina is looking forward to following his older brother and now-deceased father into the Negro Baseball Leagues. An outstanding blend of history, sports, and coming of age: not to be missed. [Kirkus]
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View Warrior on the Mound -
Log Life
PICTURE BOOK NONFICTION / A fascinating subject, told with fun illustrations. Nurse logs rule!! - Bean
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View Log Life -
Barracoon
NONFICTION / A powerful enslavement narrative from a literary icon, deftly retold for a younger audience. [Kirkus]
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View Barracoon -
We Are Big Time
GRAPHIC NOVEL / High school freshman Aliya is worried about adjusting to her new Islamic school in Milwaukee, [but] she joins the all-girls basketball team--which is infamously terrible--and it's there that she finds the support and friendship she had hoped for. [School Library Journal]
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
View We Are Big Time -
The Secret Library
MIDDLE GRADE NOVEL / A restless, adventure-seeking tween finds herself in a special library. A deeply satisfying, page-turning, genre-defying read. [Kirkus]
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
View The Secret Library -
Spider-Gwen
LOCAL AUTHOR / GRAPHIC NOVEL / Trapped in a parallel dimension as her friends and fellow Spiders battle for their lives, what can Gwen do to stop the Inheritors from wreaking havoc across the Web of Life and Destiny? [publisher]
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
View Spider-Gwen -
A Stinky History of Toilets
NONFICTION / A fascinating history of the porcelain god and other sanitary (and unsanitary) practices. [Kirkus]
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
View A Stinky History of Toilets -
Chronicles of A Lizard Nobody
MIDDLE GRADE NOVEL / Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them, as this monitor lizard soon learns. Heart and weirdness in equal measure prove you should never understimate the power of a lizard! [Kirkus]
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
View Chronicles of A Lizard Nobody -
Time to Party
GRAPHIC NOVEL / Olivia loves being the Dungeon Master of her after-school club...She’s always felt at home in her game, but now—with new members and new plotlines—her world has gotten more complicated than ever. [publisher]
Format: Graphic Novel
Availability: Available
View Time to Party -
Inside the Compost Bin
PICTURE BOOK NONFICTION / The scoop on garden soil’s best friend, rich and comprehensive despite its brevity. [Kirkus]
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View Inside the Compost Bin