Summer Books to Discover!


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Book cover for This would make a good story someday.
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Although not thrilled when her summer plans are upended for a surprise cross-country train trip with her family and embarrassed because one of her moms is writing a tell-all book about the trip, twelve-year-old Sara Johnston-Fischer finds herself changing along with the landscape outside the train windows.

42. Click'd

Book cover for Click'd.
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Click'd volume 1.
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"After spending the summer at coding camp, Allie Navarro is excited to share the app she built with her friends, until it starts to cause problems between them"--
Book cover for Escape from the haunted warehouse.
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A summer job at a local warehouse proves more than it seems when the warehouse attracts history's most atrocious haunted beings when no one's looking, in a book where the reader chooses the path of the plot and the outcome.
Book cover for Shooting Kabul.
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Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
Book cover for Drive Me Crazy.
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A tween rivalry-turned-friendship story bursting with humor and heart-perfect for fans of Lisa Graff and Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Lana and Cassie have met only once before, at the wedding of Lana's Grandpa Howe and Cassie's Grandma Tess two months ago. The two girls couldn't be more different, and they didn't exactly hit it off-but they're about to spend an entire week together for their grandparents' honeymoon, road-tripping from California to Maine...
Book cover for Midnight without a moon.
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Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
Book cover for Farm friends escape!.
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During summer vacation at their grandparents' farm, Luke and Sarah are in charge of the petting zoo, and must wrangle all of the sheep, goats, chickens, cows, and bunnies when they escape.
Book cover for Way of the warrior kid.
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"Fifth grade was the worst year of Marc's life. He stunk at gym class, math was too hard for him, the school lunch was horrible, and his class field trip was ruined because he couldn't swim. But what was the most awful thing about fifth grade? Kenny Williamson, the class bully, who calls himself the "King of the Jungle". When Marc's mother tells him that his Uncle Jake is coming to stay for the whole summer, Marc can't wait. Uncle Jake is a for real,...
Book cover for Just like me.
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In this story about unlikely friendships and finding your place in the world, three very different girls, adopted as babies from the same Chinese orphanage, spend a week at a summer camp, where the adoption agency coordinator wants them to journal their "bonding" experience.
Book cover for The summer of moonlight secrets.
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During the summer of 1987, Allie Jo, whose family runs an antebellum Florida hotel, meets Chase, who is staying there with his father, and they become friends when they discover a mysterious teenager hiding on the grounds of the hotel.
Book cover for Paula Danziger's Amber Brown horses around.
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Amber and her best friend Justin are spending the summer at Camp Cushetunk. Amber is having a great time learning to ride and take care of the Cinnamon, the sweetest horse ever - until she becomes the target of pranks. Amber and her friends plot revenge. But things don't turn out as planned and the horsing around leads to real trouble.
Book cover for The cry of the loon.
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In June 1907, twelve-year-old Samantha looks forward to a happy summer with Nellie and her younger sisters at Grandmary's country home in the Adirondacks but a series of mysterious accidents on the property lead Samantha to suspect that someone is deliberately causing trouble.
Book cover for Change is in the air, Mallory.
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Ten-year-old Mallory is not looking forward to the summer as her friends are either moving or away on vacation, but she soon learns that some changes can be good, and some things are forever.
Book cover for Quicksand Pond.
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Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose cconnection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present--and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together.
Book cover for It all comes down to this.
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"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"--
Book cover for The trail.
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Toby and his friend Lucas made a list of things to do the summer before they entered middle school, but now Lucas is gone, and Toby sets out to fulfill the promise he made to his friend: to finish the list by hiking the Appalachian Trail from Velvet Rocks to Mt. Katahdin, an undertaking that he is poorly prepared for--and which will become not only a struggle for survival, but a rescue mission for the starving and abused dog who he finds along the...
Book cover for The forget-me-not summer.
Series:
Silver sisters volume 1.
Description:
When their parents, a screenwriter and a film editor, go off on summer projects, Marigold, twelve, Zinnia, eleven, and Lily, five, must visit their Great Aunt Sunny in Cape Cod, where they learn much about themselves and each other and grow closer than ever.
Book cover for Sparkling Jewel.
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Nine-year-old Tori is thrilled to be spending the summer at her grandmother's ranch, even if she has to share a room with her younger sister Miranda, who is eight--there is a beautiful, but very nervous, new pony called Jewel that she would love to ride,but her grandmother feels that this pony is just too much for a child.
Book cover for Ten good and bad things about my life (so far).
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Pearl writes an essay about her complicated summer during which her father lost his job, her sister was her junior camp counselor, and she had an explosive fight with James Brubaker the Third.
Book cover for The brightest stars of summer.
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Wedding bells are ringing on the Cape! It's summer again, and Marigold, Zinnia, and Lily are heading back to their beloved Pruet to help bride-to-be Aunt Sunny plan her big day. But cake and decorations arent the only items on the girls agenda this summer. Marigold cant wait to escape the embarrassment of being cut from one of Hollywoods biggest blockbustersespecially after she bragged to all her friends that she was in it. And Zinnie is trying her...