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Adventure begins in your library

Are the dog days of summer melting your family down? Then it’s time to head to your local library to see what “adventure begins” with this year’s summer reading program and theme. Kids can prevent the summer slide in their reading skills by reading or listening to books for twenty minutes a day—and score some prizes at their library, too!

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

Fitz and Cleo: Put a Party on It 

By Jonathan Stutzman & Heather Fox 

Henry Holt, 2023 

Ages 4–6 

Ghost siblings Fitz and Cleo decide to lift their spirits by throwing a party! Will it be an epic celebration or leave them bored to death?

P.I. Butterfly: Disappearing Daisy 

By Karen Kilpatrick & Germán Blanco 

Genius Cat, 2023 

Ages 6–8 

It is kid investigator P.I. Butterfly’s job to solve mysteries, so when an actor is missing before her school’s production of Little Red Riding Hood, she is on the case!

Gamerville 

By Johnnie Christmas 

HarperAlley, 2024 

Ages 8–12 

Max is ready to compete at Gamerville and win the video game championship until his mom sends him to Camp Reset. He’s stuck with no screens, just fresh air . . . and a camp escape plan.

Unhappy Camper 

By Lily LaMotte, Ann Xu, & Sunmi 

HarperAlley, 2024 

Ages 8–12 

Even though only one sister wants to go, Claire and Michelle are sent to a Taiwanese American summer camp where they’ll learn more about their culture, friendships, and own sibling relationship. 

Cooking with Monsters: The Beginner’s Guide to Culinary Combat 

By Jordan Alsaqa & Vivian Truong 

IDW, 2023 

Ages 12–18 

Hana is excited to start her warrior chef training at Gourmand Academy of Culinary Combat. She will not only learn how to slay monsters and turn them into tasty meals, but also how to navigate high school crushes and friendships.

MIDDLE GRADE

Alebrijes 

By Donna Barba Higuera 

Levine Querido, 2023 

Aft er humans destroyed the earth 400 years ago, pockets of survivors live on, trying to make a life, including Leandro and his sister Gabi. When they are in danger, the pair decides to escape the settlement of Pocatel.

Eagle Drums 

By Nasug˙raq Rainey Hopson 

Roaring Brook, 2023 

Pina climbs the same mountain where his brothers disappeared to gather obsidian, running into Savik, the eagle god, who sends him on a journey in this retelling of the Iñupiat story of the first Messenger Feast.

The Liars Society 

By Alyson Gerber 

Scholastic, 2024 

Weatherby is excited to get a crew scholarship to the same Boston school that her mysterious father attended. She gets involved in a secret society and immersed in a scandal that is bigger than she could have imagined.

The Misfits: A Royal Conundrum 

By Lisa Yee & Dan Santat 

Random House, 2024 

Olive’s parents drop her off at a remote boarding school called RASCH, where she learns she is a recruit for a student group of crime fighters.

Race for the Ruby Turtle 

By Stephen Bramucci 

Bloomsbury, 2023 

Jake must spend the week with his great aunt who he barely knows in a remote, swampy area of Oregon. He doesn’t expect to learn about a ruby-backed turtle or to be part of a race to find it.

YOUNG ADULT

Blood Debts 

By Terry J. Benton–Walker 

Tor Teen, 2023 

Twins Clem and Cris are the grandchildren of a murdered magic queen. When they learn their ailing mother has been cursed, they try to discover the truth about their ancestor.

Icarus 

By K. Ancrum 

HarperTeen, 2024 

Art thief Icarus Gallagher gets tangled up in a family feud when he is caught by Helios, the son of one of Icarus’s victims. But his father’s desire for vengeance may negate any future Icarus and Helios could have together.

If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come 

By Jen St. Jude 

Bloomsbury, 2023 

When the news leaks that an asteroid will hit North America in nine days, severely depressed Avery decides not to kill herself. Instead, she reconnects with her family and best girl friend, who she is secretly in love with, while waiting for the apocalypse.

The Rosewood Hunt 

By Mackenzie Reed 

HarperTeen, 2023 

After Lily’s father died and her mother abandons her, she moves in with her wealthy grandmother, poised to take over the family fashion business. But when Gram dies and leaves behind clues to her fortune, Lily must work with her peers to find the truth.

Whalefall 

By Daniel Kraus 

MTV Books, 2023 

Jay sets out to recover the bones of his father, who died a few years ago by suicide, from the ocean in the hopes of healing his family. He is swallowed by a sperm whale and through memories of his father, he wonders if he can escape alive.

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