The Kids' Room | Morse Library

Young Adult, Tween, and Children's Books:

Each month, library staff, volunteers or trustees will highlight a book in the collection. This might be a newly published book or an older book made relevant by current events or local interests. If you'd like to suggest a book, please feel free to contact us!

Young Adult Book

All Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother's death. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights - only to discover her own ancestral power. No Bree has become someone new: A medium. A Bloodcrafter. A Scion. The ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak. And Nick, the Legendborn boy that Bree has fallen in love with, has been kidnapped. Can she save herself and the people she loves without losing herself?

Tween Book

During a sleepover, a letter comes to five children begging for the urgent assistance of Ester Mettlestone-Staranise, the newly-realized Rain Weaver; she must arrive before 10am Monday to save an entire town of elves. When they arrive the kids find incredible, odd discoveries. Oscar skipped school in our world on Monday to skate, and found himself in the city of elves, just at the wrong moment! Can these kids stop the clock and rewind tragedy?

Children's Book

Misery Falls is abuzz as the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous killer, Silas Hoke, approaches. When a mysterious text leads the girls to the cemetery life can't get any creepier. Except, yes it can thanks to a surprise storyteller who meets them at the cemetery, inspires the first ever meeting of the Graveyard Girls, and sets the stage for a terrifying tale from Whisper that they'll never forget.

Book of the week: 12/30/2021

Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave follows Georgia Ford from her final wedding dress to the final harvest at her parent's winery. During her final fitting, Georgia sees her fiancé walking with another woman. Upset and angry, Georgia drives nine hours to seek comfort from her parents. What greets her is even more upsetting. She sees a man wrapped only in a towel coming out of her mother's bedroom. These are just two of the secrets that Georgia discovers about her life and family. Will she be able to hold together all that is important to her?

Book of the month: January 2023

Over a hill, at the end of a road, by a glittering stream that twists and turns, stands a house, with twelve children who eat and sleep and work and play, who get in trouble, and argue and dream, who milk the cows and fish in the stream - a farmhouse where they are growing up, waiting to see what the future might bring. Sophie Blackall invites us to join her on this enchanting visit to a farmhouse across time, to a place that echoes with stories.

Maine State Book Award Winners 2022-2023:

Willodeen by Katherine Applegate Leonard (My Life as a Cat) by Carlie Sorosiak

The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Oxtertag The Magical Imperfect by Chris Baron

Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston Nightfall: Shadow of the Bird by Tim Probert

Down to Earth by Betty Culley The Shadow Prince by David Anthony Durham

The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera Imaginary by Lee Bacon

Starfish by Lisa Fipps Carry Me Home by Janet S. Fox

Alone by Megan Freeman All You Knead is Love by Tanya Guerrero

Way of the Hive by Jay Hosler Stella by McCall Hoyle

Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame by Supriya Kelkar Deadman's Castle by Iain Lawrence

School of Phantoms by Kory Merritt Garlic & the Vampire by Bree Paulson

Erik Vs Everything by Christine Uss Katie the Catsitter by Colleen Venable

Ash House by Angharad Walker