Summer Books to Discover!


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Book cover for The shark attacks of 1916.
Series:
I survived volume 2.
Description:
Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in Elm Hills, New Jersey. He has a job with his uncle Jerry at the local diner, three great friends, and the perfect summertime destination: cool, refreshing Matawan Creek.But Chet's summer is interrupted by shocking news. A great white shark has been attacking swimmers along the Jersey shore, not far from Elm Hills. Everyone in town is talking about it. So when Chet sees something in the creek, he's sure it's...
Book cover for Summer of the gypsy moths.
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A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
Book cover for As brave as you.
Description:
Genie’s summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia—in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. Thunderstruck and—being a curious kid—Genie peppers Grandpop with questions about how he covers it so well (besides wearing way cool Ray-Bans). How...
Book cover for Swallows and Amazons.
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The story follows the Walker children (John, Susan, Titty and Roger), who sail a borrowed dinghy named Swallow, and the Blackett children (Nancy and Peggy), who sail a dinghy named Amazon. The Walkers are staying at a farm near a lake during the school holidays and want to camp on an island in the lake; the Blacketts live in a house nearby. The children meet on the island which they call Wild Cat Island, and have a series of adventures, involving...
Book cover for A corner of the universe.
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The summer that Hattie turns twelve, she meets the childlike uncle she never knew and becomes friends with a girl who works at the carnival that comes to Hattie's small town.
Book cover for Completely Clementine.
Series:
Clementine volume 7.
Description:
Clementine faces changes at the end of her third grade year and anticipates the birth of her family's new baby.
Book cover for A long way from Chicago.
Description:
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

48. Short

Book cover for Short.
Description:
"Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll realize how big she is inside, where it counts. She hasn't ever thought of herself as a performer, but when the wonderful director of Oz casts her as a Munchkin, she begins to see herself in a new way. As Julia becomes friendly with the poised and wise Olive--one of the adults with dwarfism who've joined the production's motley crew of Munchkins--and with...
Book cover for The sasquatch escape.
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Spending the summer in his grandfather's rundown town, ten-year-old Ben meets an adventurous local girl and together they learn that the town's veterinarian runs a secret hospital for imaginary creatures.
Book cover for The island of Dr. Libris.
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A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Book cover for Mike's mystery.
Series:
Boxcar children volume 5.
Description:
The Aldens head back to Mystery Ranch for another summer! They are thrilled to learn their friend Mike has moved to Yellow Sands, a new town nearby. But when a house fire breaks out Mike is blamed for starting it, the Aldens must find the real culprit to help their friend.
Book cover for Lawn boy.
Description:
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
Book cover for Surprise island.
Series:
Boxcar children volume 2.
Description:
"The Aldens spend the summer on Grandfather's Island! Joe , the island's friendly handyman, helps them with anything they need, but as the children continue to explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island - and to their new friend- than meets the eye" --back cover
Book cover for The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963.
Description:
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Book cover for The alchemyst.
Description:
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
Book cover for Tales from a not-so-secret crush catastrophe.
Series:
Dork diaries volume 12.
Description:
As Nikki plans how she's going to spend her summer, things get more complicated after she starts hanging out with a visiting student. Nikki Maxwell's adventures continue in the twelfth installment of Dork diaries.
Book cover for Moon over Manifest.
Description:
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Book cover for One crazy summer.
Series:
Gaither sisters volume 1.
Description:
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Book cover for The fairy-tale detectives.
Series:
Sisters Grimm volume 1.
Description:
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
Book cover for Judy Moody and the NOT Bummer Summer.
Series:
Judy Moody volume 10.
Description:

Based on the screenplay by Kathy Waugh and Megan McDonald. Features full-color stills from the movie.
(Ages 6-11)

Roar! It's not bad enough that Mom and Dad are heading to California, leaving Judy and Stink with Aunt Awful (er, Opal), but now Judy's two best friends are going Splitsville, too. Just when it looks like her summer is going to be BOR-ing - eureka! - Judy comes up with the most thrill-a-delic plan ever. Get ready for a

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