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Join Amy and Staci as they discuss this year's All Iowa Reads winner - The Butterfly Effect. This is a contemporary novel with a local Iowa setting - Ames, Iowa and the Reiman Gardens. Readers who enjoy a unique main character and a different perspective of contemporary fiction will truly appreciate McKenny's story.

This week on Next Reads, Erin reads from the book "Long Live the Pumpkin Queen" by Shea Ernshaw. Read-alikes include: The Book of Living Secrets by Madeleine Roux Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

This week on Next Reads, Erin reads a chapter from Answers in the Pages by David Levithan. Read-alikes include: Those Kids from Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly Americus by MK Reed & Jonathan Hill Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics by Chris Grabenstein

This week on Next Reads, Erin reads from the book Murder of Crows by K. Ancrum. Read-alikes include: The Collective by Alison Gaylin Very Bad People by Kit Frick The Girl in the Lake by India Hill Brown

This week on Next Reads, Erin reads from The Last Beekeeper by Pablo Cartaya. Read-alikes include: anything written by Pablo Cartaya (of course) The Line Tender by Kate Allen Strange Birds by Celia C. Perez The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson The Ice House by Monica Sherwood The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

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Amy and Sue discuss a hidden gem of a historical fiction novel. This book is based on the true life journey of two giraffes as they travel from Africa to New Jersey then across the United States to the San Diego Zoo. This will be one to tell your friends about!

This week on Next Reads, Erin reads from the book Forward March by Skye Quinlin. Read-alikes include: Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin Van Whye Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve The (Un)popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez

This week on Next Reads, Erin reads from the book Cress Watercress by Gregory Maguire. Read-alikes include: Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Regan Barnhill A True Home by George Kallie

This week, Erin reads from the young adult book Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle. Read-alikes include: Jason and Kyra by Dana Davidson All the Things We Never Knew by Liara Tamani There’s Something about Sweetie by Sandhya Menon What if It’s Us by Becky Albertalli

Next Reads: "My Own Lightning" by North Liberty Library

It's happening! This week on Next Reads, Erin reads the first chapter of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins. This is a prequel to the events in the Hunger Games series, focused on Coriolanus Snow. Read-alikes include: The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Blood Red Road by Moira Young Internment by Samira Ahmed Scythe by Neal Shusterman

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This week on Next Reads, Erin reads from Walking in Two Worlds by Wab Kinew. Read-alikes include: Don’t Read the Comments by Eric Smith The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline Internment by Ahmed Samira We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez

This week on Next Reads, Erin reads from Yonder by Ali Standish. Read-alikes include: Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome

This week on Next Reads, Erin has a bit of a nostalgia moment by reading from Drop Dead Gorgeous a Return to Fear Street book by R.L. Stine. Read-alikes include Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie Alender Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell and any of the books in the original Fear Street and/or Return to Fear Street series!

This week on Next Reads, Erin reads from Marcus Makes it Big by Kevin Hart. Read-alikes include: Locker Hero by Rachel Renée Confessions of a Class Clown by Arianne Costner The Losers Club by Andrew Clements Booked by Kwame Alexander