Family Book Club

This week's Family Book Club pick is the picture book The Boy with Big, Big Feelings. Perfect for any child who feels things extra big and isn't sure what to do with all of those emotions, this title is a celebration of sensitivity and the way we use feelings to connect with other people.

This week's Family Book Club pick is the picture book If You Come to Earth. A kid named Quinn writes a letter to a visitor from outer space, telling the visitor everything they need to know if they come to Earth. Beautifully insightful and dryly funny, this pick is a great conversation starter.

This week's Family Book Club pick is The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo. Written in verse, this beautiful young adult novel follows Xiomara, a girl who feels suffocated by the strict rules of her religious household. To carve out her own place in the world, she writes—and, eventually, performs—poetry.

This week's Family Book Club pick is The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. If you were a fan of the movie Knives Out, this YA mystery-thriller is for you. Avery comes into an enormous inheritance when a Texas billionaire dies. The catch? She never knew him. And his family isn't happy.

This week's family book club pick is just in time for Halloween! Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon, a middle grade horror book, follows Justin and his friends as they decide to play hide and seek—and ultimately get trapped in the spooky shadow world of the seeker, where all of their fears come to life.

This week's Family Book Club pick is What If by Samantha Berger and Mike Curato. This whimsical, inspiring picture book celebrates creativity and art in all of its forms—from the visual to the written to the physical to the mental. It's sure to get you thinking about different forms of expression.

This week's Family Book Club pick is The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert. This fast-paced YA novel follows two teens, Marva and Duke, as they run into barrier after barrier trying to vote on election day. A smart, accessible commentary on our political system, this story is also a triumph of love.

This week's Family Books Club pick is the YA novel-in-verse Kent State by Deborah Wiles. This beautiful work is an ode to the very real shooting at Kent State University in 1970, when the National Guard was called in and ultimately killed four students and wounded nine. It's a timely, topical read.

This week's Family Book Club pick is The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani. This magical teen book is the first in a binge-worthy series guaranteed to sweep you into its land of fairy tales, sorcery, forbidden crushes, and the blurring lines between good and evil.

This week's Family Book Club pick is We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom. This beautifully illustrated picture book is a metaphor for the introduction of pipelines on native lands and explains the importance of water to the whole world and how kids can get involved in nurturing the land.

This week's Family Book Club pick is Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo. The third YA novel of her career, Acevedo beautifully details a tale of two sisters living in two different countries—who don't know the other exists until tragedy strikes, pulling them into each other's world.

This week's Family Book Club pick is The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste. This spooky, exciting middle grade title explores the topics of land ownership, othering, and friendship all within a fast-paced, Caribbean-folklore-inspired plot sure to keep you on your toes.