2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Fiction

King Flashypants series

In Andy Riley's charming and funny King Flashypants illustrated young readers series, Edwin is a boy with his own crown and castle in his very own kingdom of Edwinland. But being a king isn't as easy as he imagined when he encounters enemies on a series of adventures.

Cakes in Space

Astra's family are all snoring in their sleeping pods, but Astra is WIDE AWAKE. With her friend, Pilbeam, she goes off exploring and soon finds out the ship is in deep trouble. It's been knocked off course and invaded by a gang of Poglites, an alien salvage crew searching for spoons. But even the Poglites need Astra's help when they discover something far more sinister lurking in the canteen... Sure, they're cakes; but no one would describe them as sweet! Another splendiferous adventure from dynamic duo, Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre.

Agatha Parrot series

Agatha and her friends live on the same street as their school. They are awakened at midnight by the sustained ringing of their school. The children enlist their parents and teachers to try and uncover the mystery. Agatha and her group wonder whether the culprit is a ghost.

The Photographer

When Delta Dawn, the photographer she hired for her daughter's eleventh birthday, starts slowly integrating herself into their lives, Amelia Staub soon discovers that she will do anything to permanently become part of the picture.

Hour of the Witch

Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in The New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, Mary soon finds herself the object of suspicion and rumor.

All the Broken Places

Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget.

Captain Underpants series

Captain Underpants is an illustrated children's novel series by American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey. The series revolves around two fourth graders, George Beard, and Harold Hutchins, living in Piqua, Ohio, and Captain Underpants, an aptly named superhero from one of the boys' homemade comic books, who accidentally becomes real when George and Harold hypnotize their cruel, bossy, and ill-tempered principal, Mr. Krupp. From the third book onwards, Mr. Krupp also possesses superhuman strength, durability, and flight as a result of drinking alien "Extra-Strength Super Power Juice".

Amelia Bedelia Chapter Book series

The Amelia Bedelia Chapter Books book series by Herman Parish includes books Amelia Bedelia Means Business, Amelia Bedelia Unleashed, Amelia Bedelia Road Trip!, and several more. Amelia Bedelia (series) is about morality. The genre of the story is Comedy, the setting is Contemporary. The theme of the story is We must have patience with those who are different from us