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September-October 2025 Booktalks: 5th Grade

These books were booktalked to 5th grade students at the following elementary schools: Holly Hills, Rolling Hills, Fort Logan Northgate, Dakota Valley and Aspen Crossing.

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  • To win the school’s storytelling contest, two ten-year-olds consider joining forces to form an unbeatable team.
    Book, 2025New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — J ALEXANDER
  • Bored of his perfect town, ten-year-old Nico dreams of adventure beyond the Overworld. When zombies attack, he uses his crafting skills to fight back—and earns his chance to explore. But his journey takes a strange turn when he meets a zombie who…
    Book, 2025San Francisco, CA : Viz Media LLC, [2025] — J MINECRAFT GRAPHIC NOVEL COLL
  • Reluctantly attending Camp Blue Heron, Bee quickly bonds with Zippy and uncovers a strange mystery: every morning, the teen girls’ batteries are dead, eerie music plays, and a mysterious boy appears—seen only by Bee. What’s really going on at this…
    Book, 2025Toronto, Ontario : Tundra Books, [2025] — J MF COTTER
  • Orphan Maggie is sent to the gloomy Midwatch Institute—a secret school training girls to fight crime. With new friends, she uncovers a city mystery and teams up to solve it.
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2025. — J MF ROSSELL
  • Snow White and the Dragon

    Sleeping Beauty and the Seven Dwarfs

    Bussing, Kim,
    Two determined girls race against time to break a sleeping curse threatening the kingdom of Apfel. Snow, about to turn 13 and inherit the crown, feels unprepared and faces a menacing stepmother. Meanwhile, Rose, raised in the magical Dreamwood, must…
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, [2025] — J BUSSING
  • When Juniper discovers she’s an Enchanter, she leaves everything to study at Thistledown Academy. Her twin brother Rafferty apprentices nearby and gets drawn into a secret society. As Juniper learns to master her magic, they both face monsters and…
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Flamingo Books, 2025. — J SF JAMES
  • Eleven-year-old Lila Clement dreads spending summer at her late grandfather’s Ohio inn—until she starts having visions and encounters restless ghosts, including Grandpa Clem, who claims he was murdered. Teaming up with ghost enthusiast Teddy and her…
    Book, 2025Scholastic 2025
  • Twelve-year-old Hazel must unravel a series of eerie clues linked to a century-old tragedy to find a missing teenager before time runs out.
    Book, 2023Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2023] — J CURRIE
  • Bonnie Montgomery is the world’s greatest detective—known to most only as Montgomery Bonbon, the mustachioed gentleman sleuth. From cracking daring crimes to busting owl smugglers, he’s unstoppable. But now, a mysterious death at the Hornville…
    Book, 2025Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2025. — J MF BECKETT-KING