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BOOK LIST

New Releases to Add to Your Classroom Library

Browse the latest titles to help your students discover their next read!

By Scholastic Editors
March 21, 2025

Help foster your students' love of reading by refreshing your classroom library with the top new releases. Putting new books into your students’ hands will help both avid and striving readers remain engaged and motivated to learn.

From captivating graphic novels to action-packed chapter books, these new releases touch on a variety of interests, topics, and themes that are bound to get every student excited about reading. 

New Children's Books for March

Young readers will delight in That's Not Funny, David!, the latest installment to the best-selling No, David! series. David is determined to get lots of laughs out of everyone, but not all of his tricks are funny... like sticking things up his nose!

There's also the newest book to the Nat Enough series: Nat a Chance: A Graphic Novel. Aftter signing up for a triathlon with her best friend, Nat is faced with setbacks and challenges like she has never experienced before. Can Nat get out of her own way and complete the triathlon, or will she convince herself that she's not cut out for it and quit?

For I Survived fans, share I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (Special Edition: I Survived #1)! This special edition to book one in the series features a new letter from the author and 80 pages of full-color bonus content, including a tour of the Titanic's first-class decks, historical photos of the ship and passengers, and a timeline of the technology that helped us uncover it.

Meanwhile, older readers will be captivated by the highly anticipated Sunrise on the Reaping, the phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series. Readers will revisit Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.

Shop the best new releases for March below! You can find all books and activities at The Teacher Store.

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That's Not Funny, David!

Grades Pre-K - 3
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David is determined to get laughs out of everyone -- even from those who might not find his antics amusing! From cannonballs into the pool to slurping his spaghetti to telling funny jokes during class, David is a natural comedian. But David learns that not all of his tricks are funny... like sticking things up his nose! Still, this troublemaker will always have the last laugh and, of course, the enduring love of his mom.

Abbott Elementary is ABC's hottest comedy! This official picture book features an original adventure starring your favorite teachers and students from the show, including Janine, Ava, Gregory, Melissa, Barbara, Jacob, and Mr. Johnson.

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Baa Haa

Grades Pre-K - 3
$14.24$18.99
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Internationally bestselling author Elizabeth Eulberg pens an unforgettable journey that's heartwarming, hilarious, and heavy on both romance and jetlag.

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New Shoes for Leo

Grades Pre-K - 3
$14.24$18.99
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Debut Cuban-American author Lauren Agra Deedy and award-winning artist Susan Gal join forces in this charming, heartfelt picture book story about an immigrant family-and their love and caring for family they left behind.

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Speechless: A Graphic Novel

Grades 3 - 7
$11.24$14.99
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From Eisner Award-winning author Aron Nels Steinke comes a heartfelt and funny middle-grade graphic novel about friendship, anxiety, and expressing yourself.

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The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling series that began with Nat Enough!

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Is It Real? The Loch Ness Monster

Grades 3 - 7
$6.74$8.99
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Put on your detective hat and prepare all your investigative tools, because you've been assigned a new case to solve: the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster!

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Right Back at You

Grades 4 - 7
$13.49$17.99
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From the award-winning, bestselling author of Not If I Can Help It, a story about reaching across time to find the support you need against bullies, bad friends, and antisemitism.

$20.99$27.99
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The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series!

When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

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