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Irene Latham Author Of If I Could Choose a Best Day: Poems of Possibility

From Irene's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Irene's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Irene Latham Why Irene loves this book

This is my favorite Kate Messner novel to date! I loved the premise of kid-having-to-climb-mountains in order to make reparations for his misbehavior. The changes in Finn across the book felt well-earned, and the storytelling style of including newspaper articles, recipes, and poems, helped make it a quick, engaging read.

By Kate Messner ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked The Trouble with Heroes as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 8, 9, 10, and 11.

What is this book about?

An instant New York Times bestseller!

A USA Today bestseller!

Read with Jenna Jr. Summer Reading List Pick!

"Genuinely moving." --The New York Times Book Review

"Explores the healing power of hiking." --NPR's All Things Considered

The Week Jr.'s Book Club Pick

Bestselling and award-winning author Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a boy finds his path to healing.

One summer.
46 mountain peaks.
A second chance to make things right.

Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Finn is…


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The Time-Jinx Twins by Carol Fisher Saller,

Twelve-year-old identical twins Ellie and Kat accidentally trigger their physicist mom’s unfinished time machine, launching themselves into a high-stakes adventure in 1970 Chicago. If they learn how to join forces and keep time travel out of the wrong hands, they might be able find a way home. Ellie’s gymnastics and…

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Laura Segal Stegman Author Of Ready or Not

From Laura's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Laura's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Laura Segal Stegman Why Laura loves this book

Almost Underwear by author/illustrator Jonathan Roth, is subtitled How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars. Aimed at kids ages five to nine but fascinating for all ages, it's the true story of how an ordinary piece of muslin, intended for ladies' bloomers, ended up wrapped around the wings of the airplane built by the Wright brothers for the world's first successful engine-powered flight in 1903. Decades later, Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, brought a swatch of this cloth with him in tribute. In 2021, JPL scientists sent a postage-size piece of the cloth to Mars attached to the Ingenuity spacecraft. You'll want to share this wonderful book, featuring illustrations created by digitally combining Roth’s artwork with historic photographs and NASA concept art, with everyone you know!

By Jonathan Roth ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Almost Underwear as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it. This book is for kids age 5, 6, 7, and 8.

What is this book about?

Did you know that a piece of cloth from the Wright Brothers' Flyer has travelled to the moon, and Mars?

One day in 1903 the Wright brothers entered a department store in Ohio to buy a bolt of fabric. The plain muslin cloth was most often used to make underwear. As it happens, the Wright brothers were about to wrap the simple cloth around the ribs of a mechanical 'wing' and dramatically change the world. Sixty-six years later, in 1969, Neil Armstrong took a big leap onto the moon. With him was a swatch of the exact fabric the bicycle…


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