Are you looking for great adventure in far off lands? Interested in a beginner chapter book? Maybe you are somewhere between? No matter your reading level or interest the library has something waiting for you!

8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel – 1 Dog = Chaos by Vivian VandeVelde Fun from the first chapter about Twitch the school yard Squirrel to the last chapter about his escape back into the school yard.  The adventure and fun is when Twitch is trapped in the school overnight and makes friends with all the classroom pets! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Available at NLPL in print	J VAN	Ages 6+
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz Stormbreaker was good the first time I read it and maybe even better the 2nd time! A 14 year old British Spy… even without cell phones and gadgets based on Gameboys this book delivers time and again just like the Ian Flemming James Bond book, on which Horowitz based the book series, Stormbreaker is fast pace and fun to read.  The best is that there are 13 more in the series!  BUT DO NOT WATCH THE MOVIE IT IS TERRIBLE!!!! Books❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️  Movie 0❤️ Available at NLPL in print	J HOR	Ages 10+
I can Make This Promise by Christine Day Edie has always known she had Native American heritage and that her mom was adopted by a white couple. Edie is also sure that her family doesn’t have any answers to her heritage. Then one day Edie and her friends discover a box hidden in the attic – a box full of letters signed “Love, Edith”, and photos of a woman who looks just like her. Suddenly, Edie has a flurry of new questions about this woman who shares her name. Could she belong to a Native family that Edie never knew about? But if her mom and dad have kept this secret from her all her life, how can she find out the truth now? Will parents tell her? This story took time to get into. But, when the ending comes it is well worth it. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Available at NLPL in print & on Libby	J DAY	Ages 8+
It’s So Difficult by Raúl Nieto Guridi What was difficult was reading this book.  It is painful for some children to speak but with help and calm they can usually manage.  I found this book difficult to relate to. It is however an empathetic look at anxiety and overstimulation. Even the smallest step forward can be an enormous triumph.  ❤️❤️❤️ Available at NLPL in print	E GUR	Ages 5+
A is for Bee an Alphabet Book in Translation by Ellen Heck Fun book exploring common words in other languages! What letter does the word bee start with? If you said “B” you’re right – in English! But in many, many languages, it actually starts with A. Bee is Anū in Igbo, Aamoo in Ojibwe, ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Available at NLPL in print	E HEC	Ages 3+
Sunny the Shark (Surviving the Wild Series) by Remy Lai Planet Earth meets Narwhal and Jelly in this funny and suspenseful early reader graphic novel series featuring heroic animals surviving in the perilous wilderness! Inspired by true events, the story includes facts about climate change, sharks, and how kids can help protect the environment. Very cute story about  a real shark that was rescued  by marine scientists.   ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Available at NLPL in print	J GN LAI	Ages 6+
Nour’s Secret Library by Wafa Tarnowska The bombs were falling in Damascus Syria. Nour and Amir were about to start a secret society of their best friends. Now they started a secret Library.  A light in a city that was dark with war. People brought books and people came and borrowed books. It helped many through the war. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Available at NLPL in print & Audiobook CD	J TAR	Ages 6+
The Haunting (The Secret of Glendunny) by Kathryn Lasky Dunwattle, is the first beaver to be spotted in England and Scotland for 500 years! Deep in the wilds of Scotland, there is a deep secret. The secret is a colony of beavers, a species that is craved for their fur pelts, but vilified for what humans consider to be the destruction of their land. Dunwattle’s flight is driven by the presence of a ghostly figure, a figure of a mysterious young girl who is almost one thousand years old. And now Dunwattle is destined to be destroyed for revealing the hidden colony, but his best friend Locksley is determined to save him. Will their ancient beaver colony survive?              ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Available at NLPL in print and Playaway Audiobook	J LAS	Ages 8+
Charlie Thorn and the Last Equation by Stuart Gibbs Think Spy school meets Artemis Fowl.  A wonderful new Spy tale about a girl genius who’s solves the whereabouts of Albert Einstein’s last equation.  Her  brother who is in the CIA brings her in – or did he kidnap her – to help solve the last equation. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Available to request a hold & on Libby	J GIB	Ages 10+
The Fort by Gordon Korman This is the story of a middle-school “band of brothers”. For a few hours I got to look over the shoulders of  Evan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJ, Let into a secret society where they hung out in a glorious old bomb shelter filled with relics and treasure from a by gone era. They banded together and slowly revealed their secret problems to each other.  None have perfect home lives despite how it looks from the outside. Like the Berenstain Bears “No Girls Allowed”, this is a boys book, a shared  experience that they all thought idyllic. The reader learns about their quirks and fears, their problems and the fun they had. But… would it last? Could it last?   You will have to become friends with them for a while and find out. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Available to request a hold & on Libby	J KOR	Ages 10+
Groosham Grange by David Horowitz Long before there was Harry Potter there was David Eliot. A misfit in school and always in trouble, with parents that make the Dursely’s seem like “Parents of the Year”! At 12 he is invited by a message to attend the Grange on an Island off the coast of Norfolk where strange students and even stranger teachers deal with magic. David Eliot arrives home for the Christmas holidays to tell his parents that he has just been expelled from Beton College. His father reacts badly, forcing David to take refuge in his room. David’s father makes all the arrangements and David is sent to this new boarding school called Groosham Grange immediately via a train, despite the Christmas holidays. On the train, he befriends a boy called Jeffrey and a girl named Jill Green, who are both in the same odd situation as him. On the station platform, they meet Gregor, a hunchback with one eye who is the school’s porter. He drives them to a pier where they take a boat to the island on which Groosham Grange is located. To those who have read Harry Potter  there are many similarities and even more in the 2nd book of the series. A lot shorter than Harry Potter this could be the perfect launch pad for 4-5th grade students to have a longing for more detail in the wizarding world. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Available at NLPL in print	J HOR	Ages 10+
The Stern Chase Brother Band by John Flannagan Climb aboard with the Herons in The Stern Chase, the exciting ninth installment of the Brotherband Chronicles! They are fighting Iberian raiders who they had encountered along the Sonderland Coast where they were doing sea trials for the newly constructed Heron.  That’s where Hal and the rest of the Brotherband take action against the Iberians. The Herons quickly triumph, but the Iberians voice their fury, vowing to take revenge. And they do—raiding the Scandian’s harbor at Halisholm  and stealing or destroying as many ships as they can. Though there is little proof the Iberians are behind it, the Herons take their ship, the only one that has survived the raid—and race after their enemy in hot pursuit. They will take down these pirates and get justice—no matter what! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Available to request a hold	J FLA	Ages 9+
The Search for Sasquatch by Laura Krantz A little bit of Truth and a little non-fiction… or is it?  See what journalist Laura Krantz, who’s cousin is a famous anthropologist discovers as her starts her own search for Sasquatch. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Avaliable to request a hold and on Hoopla	J KOR	Ages 8+

Are you looking for great adventure in far off lands? Interested in a beginner chapter book? Maybe you are somewhere between? No matter your reading level or interest the library has something waiting for you!

Inkling by Kenneth Oppel Inkling is about to become your new favorite character! It’s funny and fizzy and exciting, and brimming with the kind of interesting ideas and dilemmas that kids will love to wrestle with. Inkling comes into the Rylance family when it is in crisis. Inkling begins life in Mr. Rylance’s sketchbook. But one night the ink of his drawings runs together- and then leaps off the page! This small burst of creativity is about to change everything. ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print Available on Libby	J OPP	Ages 8+
Unicorn Diaries (#6) Storm on Snowbelle Mountain by Rebecca Elliott This is a fun early reader from Scholastic that will enchant girls and boys who are fans of unicorns. Follow their adventures up the mountain for their class camping trip in a blizzard. ⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print	J ELL	Ages 5+
The Edge of Extinction: The Ark Plan by Laura Martin The human race is in danger. WHY? Because 150 years ago the human race cloned the seeds of their own destruction- Dinosaurs! Soon humans are at the bottom of the food chain and dinosaurs are at the top. Sky and Sean are living in an underground compound, but her dad is missing and she goes top side to try to find him and Sean, her best friend, goes along to protect her. Luckily they met Todd who lives topside and knows how to live among the dinosaurs! A real page turner! Really good but it ended mid adventure so, read on to next book! ⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print Available on Hoopla	J MAR	Ages 8+
The Edge of Extinction: Code Name Flood by Laura Martin Once you’re done you will want to know what happens to Sky, Sean, and Todd in book 2! I really think this was one book but deemed too long by the publisher and so they cut it in half just before they get to where they were heading. It picks up in book 2, but you really will want to read these two in order! ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print Available on Hoopla	J MAR	Ages 8+
Yours Truly by Heather Vogel Fredrick Another wild mystery needs to be solved and it’s up to the Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes to solve it in this hilarious follow up to the heartwarming middle grade mystery, Absolutely Truly. Even Truly Lovejoy has to admit that teeny-tiny Pumpkin Falls, New Hampshire has its charms. Like the annual maple festival, where tourists flock from all over to sample the local maple syrup, maple candy, maple coffee, and even maple soap! But when someone tries to sabotage the maple trees on her friend Franklin’s family farm, Truly has to rally the Pumpkin Falls Private Eyes to investigate. Meanwhile she uncovers another more personal mystery under the floorboards of her very own home- a diary written centuries ago by her namesake, the original Truly Lovejoy…and it just might prove her family’s ties to Pumpkin Falls run deeper than anyone could have imagined. ⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print Available on Hoopla	J FRE	Ages 10+
Lockwood and Co. The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud In London there is a problem with all manner of ghosts, spirits, and haunts that are not very friendly! Only the young have the psychic abilities to see and eradicate these supernatural enemies. Many Psychic Detection Agencies have cropped up to handle the dangerous work. Lucy Carlyle teams up with assignment leads to both a grisly discovery and a disastrous end. Lucy, Anthony, and their colleague, George, are forced to take part in the perilous investigation of Combre Carey Hall, one of the most haunted houses in England. Readers will enjoy the deliciously creepy scares in this thrilling and chilling Lockwood and Co. series…⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print and Audiobook CD Available on Libby	J STR	Ages 8+
The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flannigan Will always wanted to be a knight and has always been scared of the Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic. Now 15 year old Will is a Ranger’s apprentice. What he doesn’t realize is that the Rangers are the protectors of the kingdom. Highly trained in the skills of battle and surveillance, they fight the battles before the battles reach the people. And as Will is about to learn, there is a large battle brewing. The exiled M Lord of the Mountains of Rain and Night, is gathering his forces for an attack on the kingdom. This time, he will not be denied…This is an epic story of heroes and villains. Great series! ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL as Audiobook CD Available on Libby	J FLA	Ages 11+
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks Not sure if I agree that this is the BEST book of the year, but it was fast paced with all the things that can happen to a 12 year old girl. It’s Zoe’s 12th birthday; she wants to be a baker and even has an unpaid internship in a friend’s bakery for the summer. One best friend is off to camp, another is moving to Maryland and she is currently not speaking to her third friend! AND in the mail on her 12th birthday is a mysterious letter from someone named Marcus who is in prison for a terrible crime! And he is her real Dad!! Did he really do the terrible thing? He says he did not! Her mother won’t even talk about Marcus but Grandma will! Follow the unforgettable Adventures of Zoe’s summer vacation! ⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print and Playaway Audiobook Available on Libby	J MAR	Ages 9+
Savvy by Ingrid Law All the Beaumont kids get their special power when they turn 13. One creates Hurricanes and another tornados. But what will Mib’s special power be? She’s hoping for a healing power. What’s your Savvy? ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print and Playaway Audiobook Available on Libby	J LAW	Ages 9+
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room. At one time the family was wealthy. Her dad taught History but he lost his leg when the school was bombed. Her mother worked and the girls al went to school. Now the six of them lived in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Parvana’s father works for a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day, he is arrested for the crime of having a foreign education, and the family is left without someone who can earn money or even shop for food. So Parvana transforms herself into a boy, and becomes the breadwinner. A look at what happened to Afghanistan when the Taliban took over. ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in Audiobook CD and DVD Available on Libby	J ELL	Ages 10+
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake by Lauren Tarnish True historical fiction. Parks are a fictitious story about the events of April 18, 1906 and the days that followed interspersed with the true stories about survivors. Good introduction to one of the great disasters of the early 20th century. ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print	J TAR	Ages 7+
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Greek Athlete! by Michael Ford and David Antram One of the ‘You Wouldn’t Want to be… Ancient Civilization” books, all fun, informative and great for reluctant readers. Another history with all the gory bits left in, well at least some of them. Fun, informative, with great pictures throughout! ⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print	J 796.48 FOR	Ages 8+
Unteachables by Gordon Korman A hilarious new novel about what happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher. The Unteachables are an academic train wreck. Anger management issues; Dyslexic, not registered and more. The Unteachables have been isolated in room 117. Their teacher, Mr. Zachary Kermit is burned-out! Once a rising star, but his career and life were shattered by a cheating scandal that still haunts him. He is one year away from early retirement and the superintendent wants to fire him before he can retire. The Unteachables never thought they’d find a teacher who had a worse attitude than he did. And Mr. Kermit never thought he would actually care about teaching again. What follows is apathy, mayhem, destruction, and an unexpected dunk in a cold river. Teachers- a great book to read aloud with your class and assign a student a voice to read. ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL as Playaway Audiobook Available on Libby	J KOR	Ages 10+
Big Truck Little Island by Chris Van Dusen                                         Wonderful rhyming books with great pictures. That big truck is stuck! How will the island residents get where they’re going? A tale of community and ingenuity inspired by a true story. ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print	E VAN	Ages 4+
Purrmaids Party Animals #12 by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen Kitten mermaid their Mermacorn friends (unicorn mermaid) are looking forward to a birthday celebration. Perfect for girls who are just ready for early chapter books. ⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print	J BAR	Ages 6+
The Great Zapfino by Mac Barnett Story is moved along mostly by pictures with beautiful pencil drawing: From the Great Zapfino being afraid to jump to being able to conquer his fears and perform beautifully. ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print	E BAR	Ages 2+
Everything Sad is Untrue ( A true Story)  by Daniel Nayeri “A patchwork story is the shame of the refugee,” Nayeri writes early in the novel. Daniel/ Khosrou stands in front of a skeptical audience of classmates, telling the tales of his family’s history, stretching back years, decades, and centuries all at the core of Daniel’s story of how his family became refugees. Implementing a distinct literary style and challenging western narrative structures, Nayeri deftly weaves through stories of the long and beautiful history of his family in Iran, adding a richness of ancient tales and Persian folklore. He is Persian not Iranian and his father is in Iran while they are in the United States.  ⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ Available at NLPL in print Available on Libby	J NAY	Ages 13+