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NOPL Summer Reading Guide Summer Reading guide NOPL RECOMMENDED READS out of this world books for NOPl’s 2019 Summer Reading Program NOPL’S SUMMER READING PROGRAM 2019 The 2019 Summer Reading Program theme, “A Universe of Stories” helps people of all ages dream big, believe in themselves, and create their own story. This program also coincides with NASA’s 60 years of achievement and its celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Join NOPL, and over 16,000 libraries across the country, as we celebrate space exploration all summer long. Summer reading kicks off June 24. Stop by your nearest NOPL location to receive information about the program and pickup a calendar of events for the summer. Kids and teens can also sign up online to track books that they’ve read to earn prizes! To learn about the various Adult Summer Reading programs available visit your nearest NOPL location. VISIT NOPL.org/SRP 2 Contents 4 Early Literacy BookS Book recommendations for the tiniest explorers. 6 children’s books Book recommendations for children with imaginations as big as the universe. 8 teen reads Book recommendations for teens that reach for the stars. 10 adult reads Book recommendations for adults looking to escape. how to find books These book recommendations can be found at NOPL branches and through the catalog. If you‘re looking for a personal recommendation just speak with a librarian at any branch. Early Literacy BookS Book recommendations for the tiniest explorers. This Little Explorer: A Pioneer Primer by Joan Holub Little explorers discover the world. Curious George & the Rocket Solar System Illustrations by Jill McDonald by H.A. Rey Teach toddlers about the sun, Curious George blasts moon, stars, and planets - with off into space. colors, shapes, sizes, and super- simple facts. Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes Space Walk When Kitten mistakes the full by Salina Yoon moon for a bowl of milk, she Simple text and lift-the-flap ends up tired, wet, and hungry illustrations introduce the planets trying to reach it. of the solar system. 8 Little Planets Good Night, Little Sea Otter by Chris Ferrie by Janet Halfmann To the tune of “Ten Little Monkeys Little Sea Otter tries everything Jumping on the Bed” comes a new to avoid going to sleep, including bedtime story that’s sure to get saying good night to all of the little ones excited about the solar creatures above and below the system while learning new facts ocean’s surface. about each planet! 4 Good Night, Baby Moon: Good Night, Gorilla A Bedtime Tale by Peggy Rathmann about the Moon An unobservant zookeeper is by James Mitchem followed home by all the animals A book about a family of rabbits. he thinks he has left behind Join them as they watch the in the zoo. moon disappear, and learn that it always returns. Touch the Brightest Star by Christie Matheson The Going to Bed Book An interactive picture book by Sandra Boynton showcasing the beauty of An assortment of animals on a nighttime. boat take a bath, put on their pajamas, brush their teeth, and So Many Stars exercise before going to bed. by Andy Warhol Filled with sweet phrases that will Ten Tiny Babies entrance parents and children by Karen Katz alike. A terrific introduction to an Babies from one to ten enjoy a iconic modern artist. bouncy, noisy, jiggly day until they are finally fast asleep at night. 5 children’s A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars BookS by Seth Fishman Our world is full of constantly Book recommendations for changing numbers, from a hundred children with imaginations billion trillion stars in space to as big as the universe. thirty-seven billion rabbits on Earth. Can you imagine that many of anything? This is a book for Picture Books story time, for science time, for math time, for bedtime, and all Out of This World the times in between. by James Dean Pete the Cat builds rockets and Fiction embarks on a special mission to outer space, where he floats in Hello, Universe extra-cool zero gravity. by Erin Entrada Kelly Lives of four misfits are intertwined Papa, Please Get the when a bully’s prank lands shy Moon for Me Virgil at the bottom of a well and by Eric Carle Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band Monica’s father fulfills her together in an epic quest to find request for the moon by taking and rescue him. it down after it is small enough to carry, but it continues to change in size. Noisy Night by Mac Barnett A picture book about a multi- level apartment building’s occupants and their many nighttime noises. 6 6 Pi in the Sky by Wendy Mass Joss, the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe, must team up with a human girl to re-create Earth, when the planet is accidentally erased from existence. Little Night, Nochecita by Yuyi Morales At the end of a long day, Mother Nonfiction Sky helps her playful daughter, LIttle Night, to get ready for bed. You Should Meet Katherine Johnson George’s Secret Key to the by Thea Feldman Universe Meet Katherine Johnson, a by Lucy & Steven Hawking brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s Follows the adventures of a young until retiring in 1986. She is said to boy and his neighbor friend as be one of the greatest American they travel through a computer minds of all time. portal into outer space, where they explore such mysteries as black holes and the origins of the If I Were an Astronaut by Eric Braun universe, while trying to evade Discusses activities astronauts do an evil scientist. while they’re in space. To register online for NOPL’s Summer Reading Program Go to nopl.org/SRP 7 7 Cinder TEEN by Marissa Meyer As plague ravages the Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar Reads people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved Book recommendations for with Prince Kai and must uncover teens that reach for the stars. secrets about her past in order to protect the world. Fiction Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Starflight Eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones by Melissa Landers the graduate of Aurora Academy Former high school enemies Solara and his not-so-ideal squad of Brooks and Doran Spaulding must misfits embark on their first mission team up when they find themselves with Auri, a stowaway from the aboard a renegade spaceship. distant past. Empress of a Thousand Skies The Disasters by Rhoda Belleza by M.K. England When their paths cross after a Nax’s trip back to Earth is cut short brutal attack Aly is falsely accused after the school is hijacked by of murdering Rhee. They are forced terrorists. Now he and a handful of to work together to save their own other space Academy washouts are lives and the universe. the only surviving pilots. In order to spread the truth about the attack, Illuminae they must execute a risky heist. by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff After their home planet Lost Stars Kerenza is attacked, and Kady by Claudia Gray and Ezra find themselves fleeing Thane and Ciena bond over the enemy in outer space, while their love of flying and enroll in a deadly plague threatens to the Imperial Academy. While kill all aboard the fleet. Cienapledges herself to the Empire. Thane see their horrific tactics and joins the rebellion leaving Ciena in a unbearable position. 8 Nonfiction Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity- Breaking Adventures by Karen Bush Gibson Stories of the female pilots, physicists, and doctors who broke the stratospheric ceiling. Apollo 8: The thrilling story of the first mission to the Moon by Jefferey Kluger Recounts the bold but dangerous mission to secure America’s position as the first nation to reach the moon, revealing the dangers endured by its crew and the ways the mission brought renewal to the country. Rocket Science for the Rest of Us by Ben GIlliand Presents a common-sense guide to astronomy and astrophysics that provides comprehensive explanations of such topics as black holes, antimatter, and space exploration. To register online for NOPL’s Summer Reading Program Go to nopl.org/SRP 9 9 ADULT READS Book recommendations for adults looking to escape. Fiction The Martian Ender’s Game by Andy Weir by Orson Scott Card Six days ago, astronaut Mark Young Ender Wiggin is one of three Watney became one of the first brilliant siblings who change the people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s course of politics and war in the sure he’ll be the first person to die first of the Ender series. Readers there. Will his resourcefulness be of all ages can enjoy this science enough to overcome the impossible fiction tale of philosophy, ethics, odds against him? war craft, and intellectualism. Dune Leviathan Wakes by Frank Herbert by James S.A. Corey Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family Themes of political intrigue, tasked with ruling an inhospitable space exploration, and rebellion world where the only thing of all feature heavily in this science value is the “spice” melange, a fiction story set in the future in drug capable of extending life and which humanity has colonized the enhancing consciousness. Coveted rest of our solar system. across the universe, melange is a prize worth killing for.... ADULT SUMMER READING All NOPL branches offer an adult summer reading program with prizes. Visit your local NOPL branch for details! 10 Nonfiction Magnificent Desolation: Astrophysics for People The Long Journey Home in a Hurry from the Moon by Neil deGrasse Tyson by Buzz Aldrin with Ken Abraham What is the nature of space and Although Apollo 11 made Aldrin time? How do we fit within the a famous person as he described universe? How does the universe fit the “alien world” of moon and within us? Tyson brings the universe space as “magnificent desolation,” down to Earth succinctly and his celebrity status led to both clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty personal trials and triumphs chapters consumable anytime and back on earth.
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