Find Your Courage, Adventures Await in 2025

It’s the beginning of a new year and what better time to choose new goals and adventures! Don’t get stuck on what you failed to accomplish last year. Do you want to sign up for a new club at school? Are you determined to learn how to play chess or make pastel de tres leches, the scrumptious Mexican cake? Perhaps 2025 is the year you take the plunge and learn how to swim! 

Whatever your goal or adventure may be, here are some books to help you take the big step towards finding your courage, making your voice louder, and being the best you in 2025.

Tony Weaver Jr. is constantly bullied by his classmates and tries to transform himself to win their approval. See how he overcomes the bullies and learns to accept and love himself in the graphic novel, Weirdo

Family members can also inspire you with their own story of perseverance. In Maizy Chen's Last Chance, 11-year-old Maizy spends the summer learning about herself and her family’s history from working alongside her grandparents at their restaurant in Minnesota. 

Do you have an idea that’s constantly brewing in your mind or do you desire to be an entrepreneur? Find inspiration and great tips in Kid-ventors, a book about 35 kids who changed the world with their incredible inventions, including the famous popsicle!  

Family road trips are often on New Year’s resolution lists and the hilarious, Mexikid, would make the best book for a trip. Meet the large Martin family and see how they embark on a mission to bring their infamous Mexican grandfather to live with them in the US. 

Fans of Roller Girl will cheer loudly for Bree, a young African American girl who overcomes her fear, trauma, and the lingering impact of racist policies impacting swimming pools, in the powerful graphic novel, Swim Team