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 October

Young readers will delight in We Are Free, You and Me by activists Colin Kaepernick and Nessa Diab. This powerful picture book will inspire every child to rejoice in their inherent goodness, brilliance, and beauty, a must-have for sparking confidence in students. 

There's also the latest installment to the spellbinding Witchlings series by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Claribel A. Ortega: House of Elephants (Witchlings 3)! Seven and Thorn face a new mystery involving a piece of hidden history and a powerful magic. As they unravel dark secrets, the two friends must work together to stop a dangerous force threatening the magical world —if they can get anyone to listen to them.

Meanwhile, older readers will be captivated by the highly anticipated The Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition. Fans of The Hunger Games will discover the world of Panem like they have never seen before with more than 30 illustrations from internationally acclaimed artist Nico Delort.

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