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BOOK LIST

New Releases to Add to Your Classroom Library

Browse the latest titles to help your students discover their next read!

By Scholastic Editors
October 14, 2024

Help foster your students' love of reading by refreshing your classroom library with the top new releases. Putting new books into your students’ hands will help both avid and striving readers remain engaged and motivated to learn.

From captivating graphic novels to action-packed chapter books, these new releases touch on a variety of interests, topics, and themes that are bound to get every student excited about reading. 

New Children's Books for October

Young readers will delight in We Are Free, You and Me by activists Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab. This powerful picture book will inspire every child to rejoice in their inherent goodness, brilliance, and beauty, a must-have for sparking confidence in students

There's also the latest installment to the spellbinding Witchlings series by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Claribel A. Ortega: House of Elephants (Witchlings 3)! Seven and Thorn face a new mystery involving a piece of hidden history and a powerful magic. As they unravel dark secrets, the two friends must work together to stop a dangerous force threatening the magical world —if they can get anyone to listen to them.

Meanwhile, older readers will be captivated by the highly anticipated The Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition. Fans of The Hunger Games will discover the world of Panem like they have never seen before with more than 30 illustrations from internationally acclaimed artist Nico Delort.

Shop the best new releases for October below! You can find all books and activities at The Teacher Store.

Board Book

Awake, Asleep

Grades Pre-K
$5.99$7.99
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Join three diverse families in this heartwarming story celebrating children's imaginative thoughts and precious moments. A rhythmic read-a-loud for any time of day.

Paperback Book

Peppa Pig: Peppa Goes Ice Skating

Grades Pre-K - 2
$4.49$5.99
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Join television favorite Peppa and her friends on their wonderful adventures!

Hardcover Book

Rory the Remarkable Dragon

Grades Pre-K - 2
$14.24$18.99
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Rory isn't like other dragons! An upbeat story about accepting others for who they are, with a clever twist on the ugly duckling trope that is sure to spark joyful giggles.

Paperback Book

Stick Man

Grades Pre-K - 2
$5.99$7.99
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Stick Man lives in the family treeWith his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three. But one day, Stick Man is carried off by a mischievous dog who wants to play fetch! Things go from bad to worse as Stick Man is carried farther and farther away from home. Lonely and lost, Stick Man desperately wants to get home to be with his family for Christmas. And when he helps Santa Claus out of a bind, he finds the perfect ticket home!

Hardcover Book

We Are Free, You and Me

Grades Pre-K - 3
$14.24$18.99
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Activists Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab present a poetic anthem to your brilliance, your beauty, your very existence.

$14.24$19.99
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In this inspiring tribute to Black girl pride and excellence, a young child discovers her place in a radiant heritage. As she meets twelve extraordinary Black women-historic and contemporary heroines who have blazed a trail for her own future success-she internalizes their strength and sets out to change the world in her own way. Just like them, she can reach her dreams. And readers will discover that they can reach theirs too.

Viv and Sanjay are the Inside Scouts! Together, they help animals. They have a cool superpower -- they can shrink super small. A cheetah got a cramp in her leg while she was running. Now she can't move her leg. The Inside Scouts put on their super-suits, grab their tools, and get really small! They go inside the cheetah's leg to stop the cramp. And they work together to help her muscle relax!

$5.24$6.99
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Meet the Disaster Squad! Leela, Jaden, and the rest of the Jackson family travel the country and respond to natural disasters, helping people in need and rescuing animals along the way. In this second adventure, the Jacksons are called to Texas, where a hurricane is heading down the coast. Stormy skies, flooding streets, and crowded storm shelters... there are people and animals in danger! Will the Disaster Squad be able to weather the storm and lend a helping hand?

Ember is ready for a relaxing trip to Acorn Island with the Chin family. But before they even arrive at the island, a mysterious raven warns Ember and his pet friends that an evil chipmunk haunts the night! At first, Ember is confident that a little chipmunk is no match for him. But soon, he learns that this chipmunk is out to sabotage his human family's vacation . . . while putting the blame on all the pets! Will Ember and the other pets be able to save their vacation?

$9.74$12.99
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Seven-year-old Karen tells of her adventures in school, at home and at play in this delightful and popular series by the author of the acclaimed Baby-sitters Club books.

Paperback Book

Piggy Graphix Novel: Desert Nightmare

Grades 3 - 5
$9.74$12.99
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Join Willow and Cami as they escape from the clutches of Piggy on a high-speed chase through the desert!

Hardcover Book

House of Elephants (Witchlings 3)

Grades 3 - 7
$13.49$17.99
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From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Claribel A. Ortega: The third book in the spellbinding Witchlings series!

Hardcover Book

Hungry Bones

Grades 3 - 7
$14.99$19.99
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A chilling middle grade novel about a girl haunted by a hungry ghost.

$9.74$12.99
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Leon struggles with a super ego -- and a super secret! -- in the second graphic novel in Jamar Nicholas's action-packed, heartfelt, and joyously funny series.

$5.24$6.99
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One of history's most exciting and terrifying events comes to life in this story of amazing kids and how they survived.

$11.24$14.99
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When Captain Amazing announces he's looking for a sidekick, his eager pets clamor to audition.

$14.24$18.99
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Trouble finds Kim and his prodigy younger sister Eila when a mysterious item allows Eila to control minds around her. Can Kim save his sister-and save the world from the forces she's unleashed?

Hardcover Book

Deer Run Home

Grades 6 - 8
$14.24$18.99
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Effie is Deaf and feels like a stranger in her hearing family-no one speaks sign language. Follow her as she finds solace in the world around her and a new understanding of herself.

Paperback Book

Take the Shot (Play the Game #2)

Grades 6 - 8
$5.99$7.99
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When challenges come Raam's way, he knows to never give up until that final buzzer goes off. Basketball enthusiasts will see themselves in this series about regaining one's confidence on and off the court.

Hardcover Book

The Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition

Grades 7 and up
$26.24$34.99
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THE HUNGER GAMES as you've never seen it before -- in a remarkable illustrated edition.

$7.49$9.99
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Young fans of history and horses will delight in the exhilarating true story of Operation Cowboy and the miraculous survival of the Spanish Riding School.

Paperback Book

Please Be My Star

Grades 8 - 10
$13.49$15.99
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A wonderfully fun and unique reimagining of The Phantom of the Opera as a teen rom-com set in high school!

Paperback Book

Wolves of Mercy Falls: Shiver

Grades 9 - 12
$9.74$12.99
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When Grace finally meets the wolf that has entranced her since childhood-in human form, they must fight to stay together and alive.

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