Get ahead of the
game! Make a
Black-eyed Susan
title a part of your
summer reading!
Albie has always been told
he’s “almost” good enough
at everything he’s ever
tried. He just never seems
to get there.
This is an autobiography in
poetry by the author of
award-winning books
such as Locomotion and
Peace, Locomotion.
After a meteor shower, one of
Arianne’s horses gives birth to
a baby centaur, a half
horse/half human creature.
The family is already dealing
with Arianne’s baby brother,
born with a birth defect.
Can the new kid Ellie just
met, really be her
grandfather who came
back to life as a young
boy? This one is from the
author of all those
“Babymouse” books!
Twelve-year-old Gabriel
teams up with a magical
raven to find his missing
father in this fantasy.
Though her famous
photographer father
encourages her to use her
camera, Lucy doesn’t think
she’ll ever be good enough.
But, the camera and her
Lucy’s new friend, Nate,
change her life.
11-year old Jaden feels like
an epic failure. But, when his
family travels to war-torn
Kazakhstan to adopt a child,
Jaden understands how
much more difficult life can
be.
When the really short new
kid joins Woodrow’s class,
he knows that – like himself
– Toulouse is going to be a
target for the school’s
bullies. Then, when
Woodrow and Toulouse
prove the be a powerhouse
volleyball team, things
change.
From the author of the
“Origami Yoda” series: A
group of kids team up to
solve the mystery of what
evil might be going on at
the local wastewater
treatment plant.
Gabby uses her writing time
just to escape from her
parents’ constant fighting.
But, a teacher sees the real
possibilities in Gabby and
her poetry.
A Japanese-style
superhero battles
intergalactic
octopus monsters,
city-smashing giant
robots, and armies
of squawking crowdemons, while
trying to fit in some
quality videogame
hours on the couch.
When Cam’s father, who
can’t afford much, gives
Cam a cardboard box for
his birthday, Cam is – of
course – disappointed.
Until the cardboard man he
folds the box into comes to
life.
This is a graphic collection of
true stories of canine military
heroes of World War I, World
War II and the Vietnam
conflict.
Cece Bell’s graphic
autobiography about growing
up deaf has already won a
Newbery honor award. If you
like Smile, Drama or Sisters by
Raina Telgemier, you’re going
to like El Deafo by Cece Bell.
Denny’s got powers; but, it’s
going to take a powerful group
of warrior friends to keep
Denny and his powers safe
from the forces of evil who wish
to take and use them for their
own purposes.
A grandmother tells her
granddaughter the
incredible story of how, as a
young Jewish child, friends
and neighbors hid her and
kept her safe from the
German Nazis intent on
killing all Jews during World
War II.
Three Hispanic friends
work together to create
the most awesome
“lowrider” car in
competition.
Can a unicorn who thinks
just a little too much of
herself and a young girl
who spends most of her
time absent-mindedly
daydreaming really
become friends?
When a group of orphans
discover they have a common
connection, plucky heroine
Phoebe leads them in a
daring escape from their
orphanage to an uninhabited
moon.
Animals in an
English zoo
present their
own, crazy,
versions of two
of William
Shakespeare’s
most famous
plays.
Grade 6 - 9
When Will comes into
possession of the key to a
treasure being transported on
a train, he becomes the target
of the bad guys who want that
key and want that treasure.
A memoir: This is the author’s
own story, a story of survival
when so many in his
community were being sent
to die in the Nazi death
camps in Poland during
World War II.
12-year-old Josh Bell is
master on the basketball
court and master of hip-hop
poetry as well. Can any of
that help when he gets in
trouble for breaking rules or
save his father when his dad
falls ill?
It’s 1859. “Eel” is an
orphan living on filthy
edges of London’s Thames
River. And, then, things
get worse as London is the
target of a cholera
epidemic, ground-zero for
“The Blue Death.”
Milo is the 12-year-old
adopted son of the
innkeepers of Greenglass
House. The house has
always been creepy but
becomes creepier still on the
arrival a set of mysterious
gets and things in the house
begin to go missing.
Already world famous, this
is the memoir penned by
Malala Yousafzai, a young
Pakistani girl who spoke
out for the rights of girls to
be educated in her
country and survived an
attempt to kill her by those
who opposed her ideas.
Not everyone enjoys summer
reading; but, when one class
is assigned a classic book to
read over vacation, three
friends cook up the most
outrageous tricks, pranks and
plots to get everyone – kids
and adults – begging to read
the book.
Victoria is a 14-year-old
competing in an Alaskan
dog sled race; and, this
book is the story of her
attempts to survive the
harshest conditions - no
food, falling temperatures
- when she and her dog
team lose their way.
By the author of Peter
Nimble and His Fantastic
Eyes! Two abandoned
siblings face a mysterious
specter and an ancient
curse that threatens their
lives.
12-year-old Casey Snowden
wants to be a sports reporter.
When he uncovers the
unpleasant truth behind the
way a well-known former
baseball player has been
living exile, he has to decide
whether some stories, some
truths are better left untold.