Time to Read
When school’s out and the days are long, there’s no better place to escape to other worlds and adventures than in a good book!
• Author Lauren Abbey Greenberg takes readers to the beach in “The Battle of Junk Mountain.” Shayne spends every summer in Maine with her grandmother, but this summer promises to be a little different from the ones before.
• “The Confidence Code for Girls” by Katty Kay and
Claire Shipman guides readers through the speed bumps of tween life with advice about how to take risks and accept both success and failure.
• “The Book of Boy” by Catherine Gilbert Murdock invites readers along with Boy, a hump-backed outcast in medieval times who sets out on a journey across Europe with a mysterious stranger.
• “Two Truths and a Lie” by Ammi-Joan Paquette and Laurie Ann Thompson is nothing but fun, as readers try to identify the “fake” stories about historical people and events.
• “The Treasure Box” by Margaret Wild lets beautiful illustrations by Freya Blackwood tell the story of Peter, whose father saves one book from a bombed library, and the lessons the book teaches Peter.
• “How Does My Home Work?” by Chris Butterworth is an eye-opening, graphic explanation of all the systems in our homes and communities: plumbing, electrical, wastewater and more. Lucia Gaggiotti’s illustrations show us how our “magical” homes function.
• When Colby Sharp asked 44 authors and illustrators to provide two idea “prompts” — questions, story starters, images
— and then respond to one given to each of them, the result was “The Creativity Project.”
The inspiring works that resulted will light up readers’ minds with new ideas.
• Imani is happy in her Jewish community in Baltimore, but she wants to find her birth family.
“The Length of a String” by Elissa Brent Weissman tells the story of Imani finding her family and herself.
• Award-winning author Gregory Zuckerman introduces women who have overcome poverty, racial bias and rejection to become sports heroes in “Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports.”
• In “Alabama Spitfire: The Story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird,” Bethany Hegedus and illustrator Erin McGuire show how a little girl who loved to write grew up to pen one of the most beloved books of all time.
• If you’ve ever wanted to know how your organs, skeleton, muscles and more work together inside your body, “The Human Body: A Lens Book” by Valentina Bonaguro will give you a close-up look.
• “Hero on a Bicycle” by Shirley Hughes is the story of Paolo, an Italian boy in wartime Florence who sees more action than he bargained for.