Collection Development Corner

Submitted by Alexa Martin, Molly Moore, and Kim Tomblin

Hello from your Collection Development team! We are excited to bring you a monthly check-in of what’s going on in Materials. Every month, we’ll share some of our favorite recent titles, trending genres, author read-a-likes or news and updates. 

Alexa:

AMERICA 250: Easy Fiction and Easy Nonfiction

• Rebecca the White House Raccoon by April Genevieve Tucholke

A raccoon in the White House during the Coolidge presidency? Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

• Sing the 50 United States! by Dr. Seuss

Patrons are sure to enjoy this newly discovered Dr. Seuss book.

• Bald Eagles by Gail Gibbons

A beloved author’s take on a beloved animal.

• What Emma Wrote by Ann Koffsky

A picture book biography of the remarkable woman who wrote the famous poetry lines: “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

AMERICA 250: Juvenile Fiction and Juvenile Nonfiction

• My Bicentennial Summer by Greg Neri

Recounts the author’s wacky 1976 family road trip across the U.S.A.

• Weird, Wild, and Rare: Extraordinary Animals of the United States by Elizabeth Eakes

Filled with fun facts, this book would be great for Weird But True! fans.

• The Declaration Decoded by Katie Kennedy

A historian guides kids through the Declaration of Independence, sentence by sentence.

• Five Days at the Hotel Adams by Hailey Alcaraz

Part of the new American Stories for Gutsy Girls series—will it become this generation’s Dear America? And speaking of Dear America, A Journey to the New World and The Winter of Red Snow just got reprints with fancy new covers.

Molly:

AMERICA 250: Teen Nonfiction

• America Celebrates: The Most Incredible and Influential People, Places & Events of the Last 250 Years by Aubre Andrus
• America as It Happened: A Moment-By-Moment Journey Through Time, from Prehistory to the Present Day
• America's Founding Myths...and What Really Happened by Christy Mihaly
• Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary by Martha Brockenbrough
• George Washington, A Revolutionary Life by Tim Grove

AMERICA 250: Teen Fiction

• After My Brother Sam by James Lincoln Collier (Yes! My Brother Sam is Dead now has a sequel!!)
• Alex & Eliza: A Love Story by Melissa de la Cruz
• American Treasure Hunters series by Andrew Dare (New series alert!! Historical Fiction aimed at high school boys!)
• The Hunt for Confederate Gold
• The Boston Tea Party Conspiracy
• Hamilton and Peggy: A Revolutionary Friendship by Laura Elliott
• Loyalty by Avi

AMERICA 250: Adult Fiction

• Founding Mothers books by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
• America’s First Daughter
• A Founding Mother
• My Dear Hamilton

Side note: Don’t miss the collaborative novel they contributed to, Ribbons of Scarlet, about the French Revolution!

• A Girl Called Samson by Amy Harmon
• Harbor of Spies series by Megan Soja:
• Spark of the Revolution
• Secrets of the Revolution
• Scars of the Revolution
• The Line of Splendor by Salina Baker
• Mrs. Benedict Arnold by Emma Parry
• Storm Tide by Wilbur Smith

Kim:

AMERICA 250: New narrative nonfiction titles out in June

• Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future by Fergus Bordewich
• The Summer of Death: The Great Heat Wave of 1936 and the Making of Modern-Day America by Geoff Williams
• The Hardest, Longest Race: Henry Ford and the Cross-Country Contest That Changed America by Eric Moskowitz
• Cocked and Boozy: An Intoxicating History of the American Revolution by Brooke Barbier 
• Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution by Katherine Grandjean
• Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution by Denise Kiernan

Be sure to check out the official Georgia Reads list!