READING RECOMMENDATIONS A curated list for all ages and interests 2018 ABOUT TABLE OF OUR CONTENTS LIBRARY 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 5 Graphic Novels Mark your calendars for Tuesdays@2:00 perfor- OverDrive is the “classic” app, and is compatible with more devices, including Kindle Fire, mances, June 19-August 7. Also enjoy Saturday Macs, PCs, and Windows mobile devices. It also allows for transfer to MP3 players from Matinees, Tween & Teen events, and Bilingual computers. 6 Teens Storytime in the Park—an English & Spanish event with crafts, lunch and more at Stella Olsen Park, Libby is new, and offers a fast and attractive user experience. Libby is compatible with Fiction June 28-August 2, 11:30-12:30 p.m. Android and iOS devices, with Kindle Fire compatibility coming soon. Other features that Non-Fiction will be in later releases of Libby are the ability to recommend titles for purchase and robust accessibility features, which are available in OverDrive. Adult Summer Reading, 8 Youth June 1-August 31 More options exist for desktop computers. Get started at wccls.org/ebooks. 0-18 Months Adults, we have free books for you, too. Write book reviews to be entered in weekly prize Toddlers - Preschool drawings and for grand prizes of a Vista Hot Air A Wonderful Browsing & Reading Experience Balloon ride, Dinner in the Field at Our Table Co- Browse curated lists like OBOB titles, New Additions, and other trending topics. Filter titles by Grades K-2 operative, and more. format, availability, subject or audience. Grades 3-5 Sherwood has long been a leader in the county Customize the font (including a dyslexic font), text scale and lighting. For audio books, adjust Grades 6-8 for number of book reviews. Thank you for your the playback speed and enjoy the sleep timer. part in making this a community of readers. Just for Kids 13 Resources See sherwoodoregon.gov/library for all Summer Reading events and details. Our Kids portal has picture books, early readers, comics, and chapter books, from classics to current titles, as well as audiobooks and narrated picture books. 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 •Atmospheric •Grim •Funny •Satirical •Strong female •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 world’s creator. •Family saga •Lively •Moving •Small town life holds unobservable •Compelling developments. •Richly detailed •Compelling •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.