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Kids' New Chapter Books September 2026 |
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Our Friend Hedgehog: School for Woodland Creatures
by Lauren Castillo
When the humans of Hedge Hollow head off to school, Hedgehog and her furry, feathery friends decide to start a school of their very own. Owl will teach reading. Beaver will teach shop. Mole will teach geography. Hen will teach math. And Hedgehog... isn't so sure. After all, you have to be an expert to teach a class, don't you? Hedgehog doesn't feel like an expert in anything. Lucky for Hedgehog, her friends are happy to lend a paw, sharing laughter and kind words as they figure out a solution.
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Monster Hunters: Don't Get Eaten
by Scott Stuart
Sapphire Sparks wants to prove she's a brave, clever monster hunter. There's just one small problem... she's not very good at it. In fact, even though her family has been in the monster hunting business for over 200 years, they've never actually caught a monster. Can Sapphire be the first to finally catch one and join TSFTHOMWADE (the Society for the Hunting of Monsters who are DEFINITELY evil)? But in the hunt for a monster, she may just discover that all is not as it seems.
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K-Pop Demon Detectives: California Curse
by Stacia Deutsch
While filming a K-drama cameo, the girls notice a prop explosion that wasn't in the script. Someone's tampering with the set to get revenge on the director. Their stage knowledge and choreography timing help them spot clues that others miss.
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Solve Your Own Mystery: The Missing Magic
by Gareth P. Jones
Welcome to Haventry, a town where the ordinary and extraordinary collide. With ghosts, werewolves, and zombies living side by side, trouble is always brewing. And when a fiendish crime is committed, YOU are the detective in charge of the case. It's the first day of Magicon, the world's biggest magic convention, and everyone is in town for the event. But when all the magic in Haventry suddenly goes missing, it's up to YOU to find out who took it and get it back in time for the opening ceremony. Should you tail the head of the powerful Magic Circle, Grandmaster Dimbleby, or does the newly crowned king of the elves raise your suspicions? Could Enid the Evil Enchantress be too obvious a suspect, or is Moondance the meditating unicorn deceptively innocent? YOU decide!
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The Replay Trap
by Juliana Brandt
When Sydney heads to a sleepover birthday party at a wildlife center, she's sure it's a terrible idea. Not only because she'll be staying in a creepy cabin surrounded by wolf enclosures, but because she wasn't actually invited to the party. Instead, her mom asked Ari's mom if Sydney could join, and now she's crashing the event with a group of kids she barely knows. Ugh. It turns out she isn't the only party crasher when a strange, wolf-like creature bounds out of the woods and throws the night into chaos. In the rush to escape, Sydney hits her head, is knocked out cold... and wakes up back in the car, headed to the party. Sydney realizes she's living the same night again and again and again. Why is the evening stuck in a loop, and what is the creature prowling around the center? And--most importantly--how can she break the loop and finally see the morning?
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The Cat Prophecies: Claw Quest
by Nik Korpon
The walls between worlds are wearing thin. On one side is the bustling neighborhood of San Antonio--home to thirteen-year-old Tito Rodriguez. On the other is a mythical realm where forces of darkness are looking for a way out. Standing between worlds are the guardians of humankind--a race of fierce warrior cats, who appear in our world as cute and furry companions. When Tito follows a stray cat through a hidden portal, he finds himself at the center of this cosmic battle between the warrior cats and evil spirits that feed on negative emotions. And according to an ancient prophecy, Tito is the Chosen One who will lead the fight against the forces of darkness... probably. It turns out that there are three possible Chosen Ones--Tito and his new friends and fellow outsiders Luisito and Isa, who have their own furry sidekicks (or wise mentors, if you ask the cats). And with the darkness slipping through the cracks to the human world, all three will have to train for the ultimate fight and prove who is the true hero.
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Bea Bellerose Mystery: The Lost Jewels of Room 713
by Jo Beckett-King
It's springtime in New York, and Bea can't wait for her cousin Céline and Aunt Juliette to visit. The girls are looking forward to a fun week of sightseeing, while Aunt Juliette is there to write a profile on a famous French actress, Eva, who's starring in a stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Mystery of the Blue Train. But when the priceless diamond necklace Eva plans to wear on opening night is stolen from her hotel suite, Bea and Céline find themselves once again at the center of a mystery.
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Helga the Fair
by S. J. Taylor
Helga doesn't know where she comes from. All she knows is life with Goat-Thigh, who found her as a baby in the highlands and gave her a home. Goat-Thigh used to be plagued with fits of berserk fury--a battle rage that made him dangerous to everyone around--until he took in Helga. Now, Helga won't ever leave his side, even if their neighbors shun him. But their lives are disrupted when a nearby haunted mountain cracks open and a mob of vengeful undead invades the land. In the chaos, Goat-Thigh's berserk fits are triggered... and he's unable to break free. To save her adoptive father, Helga will need the help of some unlikely friends to banish the undead--from mischievous ox tails to rowdy house crashers and frightening monsters with family secrets. Can Helga and her allies outsmart these specters and confront the deep wounds from their tangled pasts?
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Heartland
by Jilanne Hoffmann
Twelve-year-old Xyla is sick of two things: working on her family's sixth-generation Iowa farm and her mother's nagging words, "Pay attention." But Xyla can't help getting lost in the thoughts that fill her head, which sometimes leaves a wake of costly mistakes. If only her mom would tell her something--anything--about her dad, who left when she was little. Then maybe she could run away to live with him. Xyla's world gets even messier as a new family begins renting a vacant house on the farm, and the daughter is the kind of kid Xyla's mom clearly prefers--focused and motivated. But when the girls stumble across an environmental disaster right next door, Xyla must learn to trust her new friend and her own complicated mother to figure out how to stop it. Told in alternating timelines between the past and present, this heartfelt story brings to life a funny, hopeful, unforgettable narrator as she unravels the mysteries of her family and farm.
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Elmhurst Public Library 125 S Prospect Ave. Elmhurst, Illinois 60126 (630) 279-8696
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