CLP’s Best of 2023 – Staff Favorites
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Appreciating Gray Winter Days through Picture Books
Learning to appreciate the gray winter days can be difficult, so the picture books included in this list offer many different strategies for making the most of them.
How Do I Love Me? (and You, Too!)
As children learn and grow, the love they feel for themselves, their caregivers and their environments grow too. Close attachments allow children to explore their worlds from a sense of security and safety.
Chilling Short Stories
Settle into the impending gloom of winter weather by reading a few stories in these collections. Although not all of these stories are wintry in atmosphere, the suspense and strange phenomena they contain will be sure to send chills down your spine.
New Historical Fiction for Teens
Adventure, romance, tragedy, and excitement await in this selection of recently published historical fiction for teens.
YA Contemporary Romance
If like many other readers you are waiting to get your hands on Ali Hazelwood’s YA romance Check & Mate (or if you have already read it and are experiencing a serious book hangover), then you may be looking for other YA contemporary romance books to read while you wait. This list contains recent YA contemporary romance books featuring a diverse array of characters and all the feels that you’ve been craving.
It’s Playtime!
Fred Rogers said, “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” For parents and caregivers, this is a great reminder of the value to children of time spent playing games, enjoying movement, and exercising their imaginations.
Queer YA Fantasy & Sci-Fi Graphic Novels
Experience the joy of being queer where anything is possible with these queer sci-fi and fantasy graphic novels for teens. Witches, werewolves, aliens, mermaids, superheroes, knights, spaceships, castles, magic, and much more await you!
Spooky Middle Grade Books
It’s officially spooky season, so there is no better time than now to curl up with a good, scary book. Prepare to meet malevolent ghosts, terrifying shape-shifting spirits, murderous scarecrows and more in these stories. That is, if you think you’re brave enough.
Coffee & Book Pairings
Looking for the perfect book to usher in pumpkin spice season? Check out these perfect pairings and pick up a cup from Yinz Coffee!