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Sherwood Public Library is a member of Washington 1 About Our Library Summer Reading, June County Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS). Browse 1-August 31, for ages 0-17 our local collection of nearly 50,000 items and access 1.6 million items countywide with your library card. Get Enjoy live performances all summer, select started at wccls.org/library-card-faq. 2 Adult Fiction a free book at registration and get vouchers for local recreational destinations. Spin our prize Sherwood Reader’s Favorites wheel for getting half-way through your reading E-books and Audiobooks for All Ages Staff Selections log. Read, listen or attend events for 15 hours to receive finisher prizes beginning July 14th—a Access downloadable e-books and audiobooks in the WCCLS OverDrive digital collection—quickly 2nd free book of your choice while supplies last, approaching 100,000 titles. 4 Adult Non-Fiction Menchie’s bookmark for free frozen yogurt, and more. The first 90 finishers receive a skate pass to All you need is a WCCLS library card to enjoy instant access and no overdue fees. Sherwood Reader’s Favorites Sherwood Ice Arena. Enter grand prize drawings for reading as a family and for teen finishers. Two App Choices, One Great Collection

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1 Sherwood Readers’ Favorites Staff Selections

1984 All the Light We The Best of Me Adjustment Day Circe The Female Persuasion by George Orwell Cannot See by Nicholas Sparks by Chuck Palahniuk by Madeline Miller by Meg Wolitzer by Anothony Doerr Portrays life in a future Former high school As politicians plot to Daughter of the sun god Timid new college student time when a totalitarian A stunningly beautiful sweethearts return to their entrap young men, the Helios and Perse, an Greer Kadetsky has a government watches over novel about a blind French hometown for a funeral working class considers Oceanid nymph, Circe sudden sense of purpose all citizens and directs all girl and a German boy and confront the choices trampling the elite, and lacks her parents’ power when she hears leading activities. whose paths collide in they’ve made since they professors speak of a and allure but soon feminist Faith Frank speak occupied France trying to last met. bleak future, the populace discovers her special gift on campus. •Dystopian survive the devastation of turns to an odd book to of witchcraft. •Thought-provoking World War II. •Love story •Engaging prepare for Adjustment •Witty •Engaging •Gritty •Heartwrenching Day. •Epic •Suspenseful •Timely •Strong female •Atmospheric •Grim •Funny •Satirical •Compelling •Character-driven

Commonwealth A Dog’s Purpose Homegoing Magpie Murders The Private Life of Mrs. Signs Preceding the by Ann Patchett by Bruce Cameron by Yaa Gyasi by Anthony Horowitz Sharma End of the World by Ratika Kapur by Yuri Herrera The story of two broken Searching for his purpose The story of two half- Two mysteries in one families and the paths over the course of sisters in 18th-century West book—the first, set in Committed to doing Makina is a young woman their lives take over 40 multiple canine lives, Africa: there’s Effia, who the 1950s, is an Agatha her part in realizing the asked by her mother to years, through love and Bailey is reborn as a puppy becomes the mistress of a Christie–style whodunit. new Indian dream for deliver an envelope to her marriage, death and after a tragic death as a British slave-trader, and Esi, The second, set in her family by working as brother, who crossed the divorce, and a dark secret stray and shares a loving who survives the Middle modern times, stars an a receptionist in Delhi, border from Mexico over from childhood that lies bond with young Ethan Passage only to live in editor who must solve a while her husband works into the U.S. three years underneath it all. before he again dies and bondage on an American mystery surrounding that in Dubai, Mrs. Sharma’s earlier. starts over. plantation. whodunit. conversation with a •Family Saga stranger may change •Atmospheric •Haunting •Moving •Sweeping •Fast-paced •Amusing •Complex characters •Clever •Intricate Plot everything. •Character-driven •Richly detailed •Haunting •Sweeping •Golden Age mystery •Authentic •Introspective

Lilac Girls Pretty Girls Ready Player One The Turner House Us Against You What is Not Yours is by Martha Hall Kelly by Karin Slaughter by Ernest Cline by Angela Flournoy by Fredrik Backman Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi The story of Estranged sisters -- Claire Immersing himself in a Learning that their house Backman revisits women prisoners and Lydia -- are reunited mid-twenty-first-century on Detroit’s East Side is Beartown, where the A collection of stories in the Ravensbruck by the murder of Claire’s technological virtual worth only a fraction of its cherished hockey team about literal and concentration camp. The husband, whom Lydia had utopia to escape a world mortgage, the members is disbanded. The players metaphorical keys that characters relate their accused of harassment of famine, poverty, and of the Turner family gather join a rival team in Hed open or shut the fates experiences from 1939- years ago. disease, Wade Watts joins to reckon with their pasts and a new team forms of lovers, the heart 1959 through alternating an increasingly violent and decide the house’s (with a surprise coach) in of a puppeteering first-person narratives. •Suspenseful effort to solve a series fate. Beartown. student and the doors •Fast-paced •Intricate of a house of locks that •Strong female of puzzles by the virtual •Family saga •Lively holds unobservable •Compelling world’s creator. •Moving •Small town life •Compelling developments. •Richly detailed •Complex characters •Action-packed •Nostalgic •Offbeat •Magical realism •Witty Adult Fiction •Sympathetic characters For Fans of... Stranger Things This Is Us Game of Thrones The Handmaid’s Tale

American Elsewhere by Robert Jacks Bennett Carry the One by Carol Anshaw The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Lexicon by Max Berry The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang The High Druid’s Blade by Terry Brooks Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave Fool’s Assassin by Robin Hobb When She Woke by Hillary Jordan Pines by Blake Crouch The Precious Ones by Marisa de los Santos The Black Prism by Brent Weeks The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin The Boy Who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue The Turner House by Angela Flourney The Waking Fire by Anthony Ryan The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King The Excellent Lombards by Jane Hamilton Son of the Black Sword by Larry Correia On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix Some Luck by Jane Smiley Spellwright by Blake Charlton Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed Disappearance at Devil’s Rock by Paul Tremblay Love Love by Sung J. Woo The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison 2 3 Sherwood Readers’ Favorites Adult and Teen Graphic Novels

Being Mortal The Boys in the Boat From Here to Eternity American Born As the Crow Flies The Backstagers by Atul Gawande by Daniel Brown by Caitlin Doughty Chinese by Melanie Gillman by James Tynion IV by Gene Luen Yang A surgeon argues A group of working class Describes death A queer, black teenager When Jory transfers to against modern medical youth from the University customs from around Alternates three finds herself stranded a new high school, he’s practices that extend life of Washington rowing the world, exploring how interrelated stories about in a dangerous and taken in by the lowly at the expense of quality team emerged from they compare to the the problems of young unfamiliar place: an stage crew known of life, making suggestions obscurity to defeat a impersonal American Chinese Americans all-white Christian youth as the Backstagers. He for approaches to field of elite international system and how trying to participate in the backpacking camp. gains lifetime friends and death that enable more rivals at the 1936 Berlin mourners respond best popular culture. is introduced to a magical dignified and comfortable Olympics. when they participate in •LGBTQIA •Realistic world beyond the curtain. •Culturally diverse choices. caring for the deceased. •Self-acceptance •Funny •History •Inspiring •Amusing •Detailed •Thoughtful •Science writing •Travel writing •Witty •Supernatural •Thought-provoking

Hillbilly Elegy Koreatown: A The Life-Changing Garbage Night I, Parrot In Real Life by J.D. Vance Cookbook Magic of Tidying Up by Jen Lee by Deb Olin Unferth by Cory Doctorow by Deuki Hong by Marie Kondo The poignant story of In a desolate town, a dog Willing to do anything it Immersing herself in an the author’s family and A spicy, funky, flavor- Japanese organizational lives with his animal best takes to get back custody online role-playing upbringing, describing packed love affair with consultant Marie Kondo friends, awaiting the return of her son, Daphne takes game, Anda befriends a how they moved from the grit and charm takes tidying to a whole of “Garbage night,” but a job taking care of forty- disadvantaged Chinese poverty to an upwardly of Korean cooking in new level, promising that rumors of a nearby town two endangered parrots. kid who works illegally to mobile clan, including the America. Contains stories, if you properly declutter with people sends them collect valuable objects author, a Yale Law School interviews, and over your home once, you’ll off into the unknown. •Bleak •Offbeat and sell them to other graduate. 100 delicious, super- never have to do it again. •Sympathetic characters players for real money. approachable recipes. •Charming •Memoir •Candid •Self-help •Quirky •Atmospheric •Authentic •Relatable •Engaging •Cooking •Apocalyptic •Thought-provoking

Sherwood: The History The Storyteller’s The Telomere Effect Lumberjanes Sink or Roughneck Verax: The of Sherwood, Oregon Secret by Elizabeth H. Blackburn Swim by Jeff Lemire True History of by Carmine Gallo by Shannon Watters Whistleblowers, Drone Vol. I & II While many factors Derek’s glory days in the Warfare, and Mass by June Reynolds Internationally bestselling contribute to aging and Between a sudden NHL are over. Now he author Carmine Gallo illness, Nobel Prize- storm hitting the camp, lives in a remote northern Surveillance Local historian June by Pratap Chatterjee Reynolds chronicles the reveals the secrets to telling winning Doctor Elizabeth shapeshifters, and strange community spending history of Sherwood and powerful, inspiring, and Blackburn discovered a portals, this is one badge most of his time drinking 9/11 marked the worst the surrounding area with game-changing stories that biological basis for the for which the Lumberjanes and fighting. When his domestic terror attack in two volumes covering the will help you achieve any long hypothesized mind- need to go above and long lost sister shows up U.S. history, and unleashed mid 1800s through the goal. body connection. beyond. and in trouble, he helps electronic spying by the 1930s. her hide. government on a massive •Business communication •Science writing •Spunky •Funny scale. •Local history •Persuasion •Accessible •Likeable characters •Gritty •Moving •Family secrets •Journalistic •Accessible •Politics/global affairs Adult Non-Fiction Graphic Novels If you like... If you like... Biography and Memoir Narrative Non-Fiction Biography and Memoir Heroes and Heroines

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell American Fire by Monica Hesse Andre the Giant: Life and Legend by Box Brown Black Panther, Book 1: A Nation Under Our Feet by Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu Ta-Nehisi Coates by Eileen McNamara City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker French Milk by Lucy Knisley Hawkeye: Kate Bishop by Kelly Thompson Hunger by Roxane Gay The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú Packing for Mars by Mary Roach Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan Running the Books by Avi Steinberg My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf Saga by Brian K. Vaughan You Can’t Touch My Hair by Phoebe Robinson The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Poppies of Iraq by Brigitte Findakly Shattered Warrior by Sharon Shinn You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie You Can’t Get There from Here by Gayle Forman Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Biruté Galdikas by Jim Ottaviani The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman 4 Stiches by David Small 5 Fiction Non-Fiction

After the Shot Drops The Arc of a Scythe The Hazel Wood The 57 Bus: The Americanized: Blood, Bullets, and by Randy Ribay Series by Melissa Albert True Story of Two Rebel Without A Bones: The Story of by Neal Shusterman Teenagers and the Greencard Forensic Science from A powerful novel about A fierce, captivating Crime That Changed by Sara Saedi Sherlock Holmes to friendship, basketball, In a world where disease contemporary fantasy Their Lives DNA and one teen’s mission to has been eliminated, about a teen girl who The true story of a create a better life for his the only way to die is must travel into the pitch- by Dashka Slater teenager who discovered by Bridget Heos family. to be randomly killed black world of classic fairy This riveting book about her family had entered Using real-life cases, by professional reapers tales to save her mother. race, class, gender, crime, the U.S. as undocumented Heos tells the fascinating •Realistic •Angsty called scythes. But what and punishment tells immigrants. history of modern forensic happens when the •Dark •Compelling the story of a hate crime science. scythedom is corrupted? through a lens of deep •Memoir •Funny empathy. •Thought-provoking •Science •Crime •Exciting •Compelling •Thought-provoking •True crime •Thought-provoking

A Land of Permanent The Marrow Thieves The Prince and the Chasing King’s Killer: Girl Code: Gaming, #NotYourPrincess: Goodbyes by Cherie Dimaline Dressmaker The Hunt for Martin Going Viral, and Voices of Native by Atia Abawi by Jen Wang Luther King, Jr.’s Getting It Done American Women After the apocalypse, only Assassin by Andrea Gonzales and edited by Lisa Charleyboy This story of refugees Would you delay your the Indigenous people of by James Swanson Sophie Houser and Mary Beth Leatherdale escaping from war-torn North America retain the own dreams to protect a Syria was written ability to dream. But how friend? This is the choice An astonishing account The true story of two teens A modern collection of by a foreign news can they survive a world for the dressmaker who of the assassination of who met at a Girls Who poems, essays, interviews, correspondent who that wants what they have helps Prince Sebastian America’s most beloved Code summer camp and and art that express the experienced the crisis and will do anything to impress all of Paris as Lady civil rights leader. rose to success coding experience of being a firsthand. get it? Crystallia. videogames. Native woman. •History •Gripping •Serious •Haunting •Emotional •Complex •Charming •Warm •Moving •Technology •Biography •Complex •Graphic novel •Funny •Inspiring •Heartfelt

The Shadowshaper Speak: The Graphic When My Heart Joins Rise of the Dungeon Voices in the Air: We Will Not Be Silent Cypher Series Novel the Thousand Master: Gary Gygax Poems for Listeners by Russell Freedman by Daniel José Older by Laurie Halse Anderson & by A.J. Steiger and the Creation of by Naomi Shihab Nye The true story of the White Emily Caroll D&D When the murals painted Alvie Fitz has never fit in, Through her uncommon Rose, a group of students by David Kushner on the walls of her The modern classic Speak despite all the pills and and unforgettable voice, in Nazi Germany who Brooklyn neighborhood is reborn in this graphic advice she’s swallowed The story of the co- Nye offers readers peace, started a secret leaflet start to change and novel retelling. This tale from doctors and social creator of Dungeons & humor, inspiration, and campaign to encourage fade in front of her, Sierra of abuse and isolation is workers. Then she meets Dragons. Like the game, solace in this volume of German youth to resist Santiago finds herself in a relatable, poignant, and Stanley, who might be the narrative casts the original poems. Hitler’s regime. battle for the lives of her truthful. even stranger than she is. reader into the adventure family and friends. Could she just maybe fit in from a first person point of •Poetry •Emotional •History •Startling •Gripping with him? view, taking on the roles of •Beautiful •Stirring •Urban fantasy •Darkly humorous various characters. •Cinematic •Romance •Honest •Biography Teens •Graphic novel More suggestions… If you like... Own Voices: Realistic Fiction Books Coming to the Big Screen Biography and Memoir Fast-paced Non-fiction

American Street by Ibi Zoboi The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken The Greatest: Muhammed Ali Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Ball Don’t Lie by Matt de la Pena The Death Cure by James Dashner by Walter Dean Myers Years of Prohibition by Karen Blumenthal Bombay Blues by Tanuja Desai Hidier Every Day by David Levithan The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded The Dark Game: True Spy Stories by Paul Janeczko Girl on the Verge by Pintip Dunn The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni by Jim Ottaviani & Leland Purvis The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green by Rebecca Skloot by Erika L. Sanchez Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard March: Books 1-3 Race: A History Beyond Black and White If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, & Nate Powell by Marc Aronson Run by Kody Keplinger by Becky Albertelli Steve Jobs: Insanely Great by Jessie Hartland The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler Found by Martin W. Sandler 6 7 Babies 0-18 Months Toddlers-Preschool

American Babies Baby Loves Bath! Bath! Bath! The Digger and the Festival of Colors The Greedy Goat Global Fund for Children’s Thermodynamics! by Douglas Florian Flower by Surishtha Sehgal & Kabir by Petr Horacek Books by Madeline Miller by Joseph Kuefler Sehgal After a fun-filled day, it’s Goat is tired of always Sixteen adorable This clever board book time to go home and take A breathtaking book with a Youngsters can learn all eating herbs and photographs of babies explores the transfer of a bath! From washing tiny powerful message about about Holi, the Indian grass. She wants to try from across the United energy as it flows from toes and a little nose to the environment. When a Festival of Colors, in this something new! The dog’s States showcase the the sun to an apple to making rubber ducky go lonely construction digger lush picture book from a food, the pig’s potato diversity of our country baby. Beautiful illustrations quack, bath time is fun! finds a flower, it ends up talented mother-and-son peels… even the farmer’s and the universal joys of complement age- fun! fun! changing his whole world. duo. underpants! play and discovery. appropriate language to •Nature •Friendship •Colors •Holiday •Baby faces •Diversity encourage baby’s sense •Bath time •Food •Manners of wonder.

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Hooray for Fish How Do Dinosaurs I Love the Earth Hello Hello Honey Ladybug Girl and the by Lucy Cousins Learn Their Colors? by Todd Parr by Brendan Wenzel by David Ezra Stein Rescue Dogs by Jane Yolen by David Soman Swim with Little Fish and This adaptation of The A set of animals, each one A young bear wakes from meet all his fishy friends Illustrations and rhyming Earth Book includes linked to the previous one hibernation craving honey, When Lulu’s mom tells her in this splishy, splashy riot text show dinosaurs child friendly reasons to by some trait of shape, but soon recalls the many they can’t adopt all the of color and rhyme under learning the names of all love our planet--from color, or pattern, greet and things he can enjoy while dogs that need homes, the sea. the colors of the rainbow. appreciating a beautiful interact with one another. waiting for his favorite she and her friends work tree to taking care of food to be ready. together to figure out •Colors •Rhyming •Colors •Rhyming animals all around the •Comparisons what they can do to help. world. •Greetings •Seasons •Nature •Volunteering •Pets •Environment

Llama Llama Red My Heart is Like a Zoo Sing The Little Red Fort The Rabbit Listened Unplugged Pajama by Michael Hall by Carol Thompson by Brenda Maier by Cori Doerrfeld by Steve Antony by Angela Flournoy Twenty animals are We’re amazing! We can A spunky, feminist With its spare, poignant Blip loves being plugged In this rhyming read- waiting for young readers. sing, make music, dress adaptation of the timeless text and irresistibly sweet into her computer, but aloud, Baby Llama turns Hall’s menagerie invites up and dance. Enjoy the favorite, The Little Red illustrations, this is a when a blackout occurs, bedtime into an all-out parents and their children antics of this inclusive and Hen, sure to appeal to fans universal, deeply moving she soon discovers that llama-drama. Children will to talk about feelings diverse group of friends, as of Rosie Revere, Engineer. exploration of grief and the world can be brighter relate to Baby’s need for and emotions, explore they celebrate the natural empathy sure to soothe when you unplug. comfort, and parents will colors and shapes, count and boundless creativity •Empowering •Funny heartache of all sizes. appreciate Mama Llama’s the hearts, and meet the to be found in every child. •Computers reassuring message. animals. •Emotions •Death •Imagination •Diversity •Creativity •Bed time •Rhyming •Feelings •Colors •Shapes Babies & Toddlers More suggestions… High Contrast Books for Newborns Movable and Lift-the-Flap Books Stories for Bedtime Stories for Potty Training

Art for Baby from Templar Books Bobo & Co Numbers by Nicloa Killen 10 Minutes Till Bedtime by Peggy Rathmann Even Superheroes Use the Potty by Sara Crow Baby Animals Day and Night by Phyllis Limbacher Tildes Bug Hunt by Salina Yoon A Bear Hug at Bedtime by Jana Novotny-Hunter Goldilocks and the Just Right Potty Baby Loves Sports from Duopress Lift-the-Flap Series by Karen Katz Don’t Blink by Amy Krouse Rosenthal by Leigh Hodgkinson Black White by Tana Hoban Little Friends: All You Need is Love by Barbi Sido Dreaming of You by Amy Ludwig Vanderwater I Use the Potty by Maria Van Lieshout Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert Peek-A-Boo Farm by Caroline Jayne Church Go Sleep In Your Own Bed! by Candace Fleming I’m Not Using the Potty by Laura Gehl Hello Animals! by Smriti Prasadam Watch Out! a Giant by Eric Carle I Sleep in a Big Bed by Maria Van Lieshout Potty Animals by Hope Vestergaard Hello Baby: Faces by Roger Priddy What’s in my Truck by Roger Priddy One Minute Till Bedtime by Kenn Nesbitt The Prince and the Potty Hello, Garden Bugs by Jullissa Mora Wheels at Work Series by Cocoretto Sheep 101 by Richard T Morris by Wendy Cheyette Lewison Look! Look! by Peter Linenthal Where’s The Series by Ingela P. Arrhenius Twinkle, Twinkle Little Car by Kate Dopirak Time to Pee! by Mo Willems 8 Toys by David Stewart Who Can Swim by Sebastian Braun 9 Grades K-2 Grades 3-5

Baby Monkey, Private Eye Cody and the Heart of A Different Pond Aru Shah and the End Cilla Lee-Jenkins: The Emerald Atlas by Brian Selznick a Champion by Bao Phi of Time Future Author by John Stephens by Madeline Miller by Roshani Chokshi Extraordinaire Baby Monkey may be Bao Phi awakes early by Susan Tan Three siblings have lived a baby but he has a Winter is finally melting to fish on the shores of Twelve-year-old Aru in orphanages since their full-time job as a private into spring—but with a pond in Minneapolis. stretches the truth to fit Susan Tan seamlessly parents disappeared, but eye. Baby Monkey solves everything in flux, from Unlike many other anglers, in at her private school, weaves experiences as a now they learn that they five cases (one for each Cody’s friendships down Bao and his father fish for but when she is dared to Chinese American with have special powers, a chapter) by looking to her shoe size, will she food, not recreation. Bao’s prove an ancient lamp is universal stories about quest to find a magical carefully for visual clues. be able to stay true to father tells him about a cursed, she inadvertently being a big sister, making book, and a fearsome herself? different pond in their frees an ancient demon. friends, and overcoming enemy. •Silly •Sweet homeland of Vietnam. •Action-packed fears. •Minimal text •Friendship •Growing up •Mythological •Fantasy •Fast-paced •Moving •Quiet •Angst-filled •Funny

Find the Cat!: A Pet The Good for Nothing Inspector Flytrap Hello, Universe I Lived on Butterfly Hill Lucky Broken Girl Club Story Button by Tom Angleberger by Erin Entrada Kelly by Marjorie Agosín by Ruth Behar by Gwendolyn Hooks by Mo Willems Hoping to become the Four misfits explore views When her beloved In 1960s New York, Kayla’s cat, Daisy, is missing. Yellow Bird shares an greatest detective that about courage and being country, Chile, is taken over fifth-grader Ruthie, a Kayla is so worried. She ordinary button that ever grew, Flytrap, a Venus different in the wake of by a militaristic, sadistic Cuban-Jewish immigrant, calls her friends, and soon does nothing with Red Flytrap, and his assistant, a prank that traps one government, Celeste is must rely on books, art, enough the entire Pet and Blue Bird, and they Nina the Goat, investigate of them in a well and sent to America for her her family, and friends Club is on the case. are delighted to find that mysteries at an art compels the others to safety and her parents in her multicultural pressing it makes them museum, a cookie shop, embark on a search-and- must go into hiding before neighborhood when an •Engaging •Realistic happy, which is something. and a garden. rescue mission. they “disappear.” accident puts her in a body cast. •Attention-grabbing •Wordplay-filled •Suspenseful •Hopeful •Historical •Realistic •Funny •Humorous •Moving •Character-driven

Kamik Joins the Pack Marisol McDonald Shark School: A Fin- Pax Upside-down Magic The Whiz Mob and the by Darryl Baker Doesn’t Match tastic Finish by Sara Pennypacker by Sarah Mlynowski Grenadine Kid by Monica Brown by Davy Ocean by Colin Meloy Jake cannot wait for his When his father enlists in With their magic being uncle to meet his puppy, Marisol McDonald, a Harry’s new hero is Turbo the military and makes unpredictable, Nory, Elliott, “The Invention of Hugo Kamik. Jake’s uncle has biracial, nonconformist, Tex, a gold medal-winning him return his beloved Andres, and Bax are sent Cabret” meets “Oliver won many dogsledding soccer-playing pirate- tiger shark. When Harry pet fox to the wild, Peter to the upside-down Twist” in this totally original, races, and if Kamik is good princess with brown skin meets Tony at Shark Point embarks on a journey magic room at Dunwiddle humorous, and fast- enough, he may finally get and red hair, celebrates Sea-cub Camp, he wants filled with astonishing Magic School. paced novel about a to run with a dog team! her uniqueness. to be friends, but can’t discoveries in order to be band of child pickpockets. seem to win over Tony. reunited with his fox. •Attention-grabbing •Compelling •Authentic •Spunky •Bilingual •Likeable characters •Whimsical •Sports •Colorful •Adventure •Thoughtful •Action-packed Grades K-5 More suggestions... If you like... Early Reader Series First Chapter Series Non-fiction Comics and Graphic Novels

Annie and Snowball by Cynthia Rylant Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel Berlin Wall: An Interactive Modern History Adventure Around the World by Matt Phelan Cam Jansen by David Adler Bink & Gollie by Kate DiCamillo by Matt Doeden Cardboard by Doug TenNapel Commander Toad by Jane Yolen Dory Fantasmagory by Abby Hanlon Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir Catstronauts: Mission Moon by Drew Brockington Elephant and Piggie by Mo Willems Heroes in Training by Joan Holub by Margarita Engle Hermes: Tales of the Trickster by George O’Connor Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown I Survived by Lauren Tarshis Marley Dias Gets it Done: and So Can You Lunch Lady and the Schoolwide Scuffle Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold Magic Treehouse by Mary Pope Osborne by Marley Dias by Jerrett Krosoczka Ling & Ting by Grace Lin Moongobble and Me by Bruce Coville The Playbook by Kwame Alexander Real Friends by Shannon Hale Murilla Gorilla by Jennifer Lloyd My Weird School by Dan Gutman This is Our Constitution: Discovering America with a Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt by Ben Clanton Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Owl Diaries by Rebecca Elliot Gold Star Father by Khizr Khan 10 Princess in Black by Shannon Hale 11 Grades 6-8 Inside back cover-resources

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