IS Name That Book 2024-2025

Between two brothers

Allen, Crystal,


Isaiah "Ice" Abernathy has always worshiped his older brother, Seth. For years they've been not just brothers but best friends--and as Seth starts his senior year, Ice is eager to spend as much time with his brother as he can, making memories before Seth goes to college. But when Seth announces he's leaving much earlier than expected, and then he misses an important event-one he'd promised to attend--it causes a major fight. Filled with regret, Ice plans to apologize to Seth later the next day, but later never comes, as he finds out Seth was in an accident--one that leaves him in the hospital. And the doctors say he may never recover.
Date Published:2024

Isaiah "Ice" Abernathy has always worshiped his older brother, Seth. For years they've been not just brothers but best friends--and as Seth starts his senior year, Ice is eager to spend as much time with his brother as he can, making memories before Seth goes to college. But when Seth announces he's leaving much earlier than expected, and then he misses an important event-one he'd promised to attend--it causes a major fight. Filled with regret, Ice plans to apologize to Seth later the next day, but later never comes, as he finds out Seth was in an accident--one that leaves him in the hospital. And the doctors say he may never recover.

Date Published:2024

Dinged

Greenwald, Tom, 1962-,


Fourteen-year-old star freshman quarterback Caleb Springer watches his father deteriorate from injuries he suffered playing the very same sport, forcing Caleb to consider whether playing football, the sport of his dreams, is worth risking irreparable physical harm.
Date Published:2022

Duel

Bagley, Jessixa,


Booklist starred, October 2023. Publishers Weekly, September 2023. Horn Book starred, November 2023. Kirkus Review, October 2023. Sixth grader Lucy loves fantasy novels and is brand-new to middle school. GiGi is the undisputed queen bee of eighth grade (as well as everything else she does). They’ve only got one thing in common: fencing. Oh...and they're sisters. They never got along super well, but ever since their dad died, it seems like they’re always at each other’s throats. When GiGi humiliates Lucy in the cafeteria on the first day of school, Lucy snaps and challenges GiGi to a duel with high sisterly stakes. If GiGi wins, Lucy promises to stay out of GiGi’s way; if Lucy wins, GiGi will stop teasing Lucy for good. But after their scene in the cafeteria, both girls are on thin ice with the principal and their mom. Both sisters are determined to triumph. But will winning the duel mean fracturing their family even further?
Date Published:2023

Booklist starred, October 2023. Publishers Weekly, September 2023. Horn Book starred, November 2023. Kirkus Review, October 2023. Sixth grader Lucy loves fantasy novels and is brand-new to middle school. GiGi is the undisputed queen bee of eighth grade (as well as everything else she does). They’ve only got one thing in common: fencing. Oh...and they're sisters. They never got along super well, but ever since their dad died, it seems like they’re always at each other’s throats. When GiGi humiliates Lucy in the cafeteria on the first day of school, Lucy snaps and challenges GiGi to a duel with high sisterly stakes. If GiGi wins, Lucy promises to stay out of GiGi’s way; if Lucy wins, GiGi will stop teasing Lucy for good. But after their scene in the cafeteria, both girls are on thin ice with the principal and their mom. Both sisters are determined to triumph. But will winning the duel mean fracturing their family even further?

Date Published:2023

The Enigma girls : how ten teenagers broke ciphers, kept secrets, and helped win World War II /

Fleming, Candace,


Booklist starred reviews, Horn Book Guide starred, Kirkus Reviews starred, Publishers Weekly starred, School Library Journal starred, Chronicles the work of teenage girls who worked at Bletchley Park, where they intercepted and deciphered encrypted messages of the Nazis and Japanese during World War II, and explores how their work helped the Allies win World War II.
Date Published:2024

Grounded : a novel /

Saeed, Aisha,


When a thunderstorm grounds all flights following a huge Muslim convention, four unlikely kids are thrown together. Feek is stuck babysitting his younger sister, but he's rather be writing a poem that's good enough for his dad, a famous poet and rapper. Hanna is intent on finding a lost cat in the airport--and also on avoiding a conversation with her dad about him possibly remarrying. Sami is struggling with his anxiety and worried that he'll miss the karate tournament that he's trained so hard for. And Nora has to deal with the pressure of being the daughter of a prominent congresswoman, when all she really wants to do is make fun NokNok videos. These kids don't see to have much in common--yet. Told in alternating points of view, at Hurston Airport, four unlikely kids' lives are changed forever when their flight is grounded by weather following a Muslim convention.
Date Published:2023

When a thunderstorm grounds all flights following a huge Muslim convention, four unlikely kids are thrown together. Feek is stuck babysitting his younger sister, but he's rather be writing a poem that's good enough for his dad, a famous poet and rapper. Hanna is intent on finding a lost cat in the airport--and also on avoiding a conversation with her dad about him possibly remarrying. Sami is struggling with his anxiety and worried that he'll miss the karate tournament that he's trained so hard for. And Nora has to deal with the pressure of being the daughter of a prominent congresswoman, when all she really wants to do is make fun NokNok videos. These kids don't see to have much in common--yet. Told in alternating points of view, at Hurston Airport, four unlikely kids' lives are changed forever when their flight is grounded by weather following a Muslim convention.

Date Published:2023

Louder than hunger

Schu, John, 1981-,


School Library Journal starred, Publishers Weekly starred, Kirkus Review, Booklist, Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he eats, the bigger he feels. How long can Jake punish himself before he truly disappears? A fictionalized account of the author's experiences and emotions living in residential treatment facilities as a young teen with an eating disorder.
Date Published:2024

School Library Journal starred, Publishers Weekly starred, Kirkus Review, Booklist, Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he eats, the bigger he feels. How long can Jake punish himself before he truly disappears? A fictionalized account of the author's experiences and emotions living in residential treatment facilities as a young teen with an eating disorder.

Date Published:2024

Max in the house of spies : a tale of World War II /

Gidwitz, Adam,


"A tale of World War II"--Front cover. School Library Journal starred, February 2024. Booklist starred, December 2023. Horn Book starred, March 2024. Kirkus Review, December 2023. To find his way back home to his family in Germany during WWII, Max Bretzfeld, with a kobold named Berg on one shoulder and a dybbuk named Stein on the other, sets out to do the impossible--become a British spy.
Date Published:2025

Max in the house of spies : A tale of World War II /

Gidwitz, Adam,


There was once a boy who had two invisible, immortal creatures living on his shoulders. This was the fourth most interesting thing about him. The first most interesting thing about Max--that was his name--was that he was a genius. He could make a working radio from the junk at the bottom of a trash can. Sent away to London, Max Bretzfeld discovers he's been joined by two unexpected traveling companions--a dybbuk named Stein and a kobold named Berg--one on each shoulder.
Date Published:2024

There was once a boy who had two invisible, immortal creatures living on his shoulders. This was the fourth most interesting thing about him. The first most interesting thing about Max--that was his name--was that he was a genius. He could make a working radio from the junk at the bottom of a trash can. Sent away to London, Max Bretzfeld discovers he's been joined by two unexpected traveling companions--a dybbuk named Stein and a kobold named Berg--one on each shoulder.

Date Published:2024

Olivetti

Millington, Allie,


School Library Journal, January 2024. Booklist starred, January 2024. Kirkus starred, February 2024. New York Times, March 2024. Horn Book, May 2024. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), February 2024. Witty typewriter Olivetti and twelve-year-old introvert Ernest embark on a mission to find Ernest's missing mother that takes them across San Francisco.
Date Published:2024

Our divine mischief

Howard, Hanna C.,


Kirkus Reviews. School Library Journal. Told from three perspectives, outcast Hew and wish-granting canine, Orail, help seventeen-year-old Alia through a series of divine Ordeals, but there is more at stake in the kingdom than just Alia's future, and Orail may be the key to saving them all.
Date Published:2023

Something like home

Arango, Andrea Beatriz.


Publisher's Weekly starred, November 22, 2023. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, September 2023. Horn book starred, September 2023. Kirkus starred, August 01, 2023. Booklist, September 15, 2023. School library journal starred, September 01, 2023. When a lost dog helps Laura find a way home to her family, they discover family in each other along the way.
Date Published:2023

Something like home

Arango, Andrea Beatriz,


School Library Journal starred, September 2023. Horn Book starred, September 2023. Publishers Weekly, July 2023. Kirkus starred, August 2023. Booklist, September 2023. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 2023. Laura Rodriguez Colon has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be allowed to visit her parents. Maybe the dog will help them get better and things will finally go back to the way they should be.
Date Published:2024

School Library Journal starred, September 2023. Horn Book starred, September 2023. Publishers Weekly, July 2023. Kirkus starred, August 2023. Booklist, September 2023. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 2023. Laura Rodriguez Colon has a plan: no matter what the grown-ups say, she will live with her parents again. Can you blame her? It's tough to make friends as the new kid at school. And while staying at her aunt's house is okay, it just isn't the same as being in her own space. So when Laura finds a puppy, it seems like fate. If she can train the puppy to become a therapy dog, then maybe she'll be allowed to visit her parents. Maybe the dog will help them get better and things will finally go back to the way they should be.

Date Published:2024