Youth Materials that Ruled 2020

January 2, 2021 | Boydl

This list includes staff favorites as well as the most popular items that patrons checked out during 2020. Did we miss your favorite? let us know in the comments. 

Staff Favorites
I found a kitty! by Troy Cummings
Pugtato finds a thing by Sophie Corrigan
Santiago's road home by Alexandra Diaz
Stepping stones by Lucy Knisley
Twilight hauntings by Angie Sage
Highest Check Outs

These are the items that have circulated the most in 2020 in the youth department. 

Picture Books

Miss Spider's wedding by David Kirk
Be kind by Pat Zietlow Miller
Pete the cat checks out the library by James Dean
Hair love : a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere by Matthew A. Cherry

Chapter Books

Keeper of the lost cities by Shannon Messenger
Cabin fever by Jeff Kinney
Also available in: e-book | audiobook
Spy camp by Stuart Gibbs
Also available in: e-book
Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz
The bad guys in intergalactic gas by Aaron Blabey
Like nothing amazing ever happened by Emily Blejwas
Mercy Watson goes for a ride by Kate DiCamillo
Saucy by Cynthia Kadohata

Easy Readers

Pete the kitty and the case of the hiccups by James Dean
Also available in: e-book
Mighty Twins! by Tex Huntley
Ice cream soup by Ann Ingalls
I'm not afraid of the dark! by Cari Meister

Graphic Novels

The Baby-sitter's Club. Vol. 1, Kristy's great idea by Ann M. Martin
Also available in: e-book
Baby-sitters little sister. 1, Karen's witch by Katy Farina
Also available in: e-book
Geronimo Stilton reporter. #3, Stop acting around by Geronimo Stilton
Big Nate : payback time! by Lincoln Peirce
Class act by Jerry Craft
For whom the ball rolls by Dav Pilkey

Biographies

Who was P.T. Barnum? by Kirsten (Kirsten Stephanie) Anderson
Who was Alexander Hamilton? by Pam Pollack
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'Aulaire
Radiant child : the story of young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe

Nonfiction

Garfield slurps and burps by Jim Davis
The care & keeping of you : the body book for younger girls by Valorie Lee Schaefer