If you ask any librarian, most would probably wish they had MORE time in the day to read. Yet, collectively, the staff at MCLS member libraries some how manage to find some time each day to read hundreds of books each year covering a wide variety of genres and topics, and we love sharing our favorites from the past year. Check out our list of titles we recommend you pick up in 2026, below you will find Children and Teen Titles

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Tween and Teen Chapter books

Aurora (Graphic Novel)
by Red

Stephani loves this fantasy teen graphic novel for the characters, worldbuilding, humor, and lack of romance drama. The book starts with the god of the city of Vash incarnating to save his people from the strange beasts attacking, but their creator steals his soul. He wakes up in the home of a Life mage named Alinua and tells her that he needs to save Vash. They are both very surprised to find out that he’s not Vash anymore! She agrees to join her new friend on his journey, he picks the name Kendal. Along the way they meet Erin, the only known mage who can control all 6 elements, who carries a dark secret, and Falst, a lion-man who’s never fit in.

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

by Kate DiCamillo

Unbecoming

by Seema Yasmin

The War That Saved My Life

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

P.S. Be Eleven

by Rita Williams-Garcia

You Are a Raccoon!

By Laurie Ann Thompson

The Trouble With Heroes

by Kate Messner

Peas on Earth (2012)
by Doodler, Todd H