Calling all Fall Readers! Youth Services has collected their favorite reads for Fall 2022 and we are ready to share them with you! Come check out our Staff Picks display located near the Youth Services Main desk anytime now through the end of November and take home a great read! If you prefer to chose your books digitally, just click on one of the covers below and use our catalog to put the title on hold. Happy Fall Reading, Y’all!
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What’s Your Next Great Read? Book Reviews with Ms. Cecily
Are you looking for great adventure in far off lands or just looking for your first great chapter book? Or someone in between. The library has something waiting for you!
The Floating Forest by Linda Chapman
Age Interest: 6-9 Grades 1-4 Rating:4/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is the second book in the Mermaids Rock series. Mermaids and Mermen romp with their undersea friends. Join Coralie, Marina, and their mermaid friends in the beautiful coral reef at Mermaids Rock! Whether they’re working together to help sea animals in danger or solving a mystery of the deep, the friends at Mermaids Rock will do anything to protect their ocean home and if there is a ripple of adventure they will find it! This is the perfect series for those looking to transition to chapter books from easy readers. Lots of pictures to go with the text. J CHA
A Girl, A Boy and A Monster Cat by Gail Gauthier
Age Interest: 7-10 Grades 2-4 Rating: 4/5❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is the tale of Hannah, a know it all, bossy little girl and her classmate Brandon, who goes to her house in the afternoon until his mother comes home from work. She has an amazing imagination and Brandon is pretty good to put up with all of her antics. Add in a difficult neighbor, her ferocious chihuahua, Bucky, and one big fat monster cat, Buttercup and they have plenty of adventures. The chapters loosely flow together and each chapter is often a story in itself. Add a cute ending this is definitely a book a 2-4th grade girl would enjoy! J GAU
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Van Glaser
Age Interest: 8-11 Grades 3–6 Rating: 4/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
What do you do when your landlord says your family has 2 weeks to move the week before Christmas?! The brownstone, the only place the kids have ever lived. The book is the story of the kids trying to win over the landlord so that they don’t have to move. And the lessons they all learn over the two weeks. I really enjoyed this book . It’s available on Libby as an audio and e-book as well as in print. If you enjoy this try the 2nd book, The Vandebeekers Make a Wish or the Penderwicks (J BIR) J VAN
The Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Age Interest: 9-12 Grades: 3-7 Rating: 5/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Aven is a hilarious and inspiring protagonist. She’s not happy when she has to leave the only home she has ever known and all her friends. Now she has to explain her disability to a whole new group of kids! Then in her new school she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability. Together they solve a mystery and she finds out moving wasn’t so bad after all. It’s available on Libby as an audiobook and e-book as well as in print. Give this book a try; it’s a great read! J BOW
The Last Map Maker by Christina Soontornvat
Age Interest: 8-12 Grades: 4-8 Rating: 5/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This fantasy adventure explores a girl’s struggle to come to terms with her past and chart her own destiny in a world full of secrets. Twelve-year-old Sai is the assistant to a celebrated mapmaker. Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future, but her father is a conman and she has no family to be proud of. In a kingdom where one’s ancestors’ status dictates their social position the truth could ruin her. Sai takes a chance and joins an expedition to chart the southern seas, but she isn’t the only one with secrets. This tale of identity and integrity is as beautiful as the maps of old. Just beware of the DRAGONS! J SOO
Knight Owl by Christopher Denise (Picture Book)
Age Interest: 4-8 Grades:Preschool-3 Rating: 5/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Owl has always dreamed of becoming a knight. What he lacks in size he makes up for in bravery and cleverness. He proves that all these things and friendship can rule over brawn. E DEN
A book of Camping and Survival Projects by Ruth Owen
Age Interest: 8-11 Grades: 2-4 Rating: 4/5❤️❤️❤️❤️
Great book for all the Cub Scouts out there working on badges! J 613.6 OWE
Born Hungry Julia Child becomes “the French Chef” by Alex Prud’homme
Age Interest:5-9 Grades: K-4 Rating: 4/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is a short Biography of Julia Child. If you were born hungry you will want to know how this vivacious woman became a chef. She started out life and could barely boil water, but any one can learn to cook and cook well. And that is what she did! At the end there is a bonus recipe of one of the first thing she learned to cook at Le Cordon Blue. J B CHI
Dodsworth in New York by Tim Egan
Age Interest: 6-9 Grades: 1-4 Rating:5/5❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Colorful pictures on every page make this a perfect transition book from Easy Readers to Chapter Book. Dodsworth goes to New York on the train and discovers that his friends duck has stowed away in his suitcase. Once in New York, Dodsworth chases the crazy duck that misbehaves all over the Big Apple and sees the sights as he goes. Then they are supposed to go home but…. If you enjoy this book, Dodsworth also visits Paris, London, Tokyo and other great cities. J EAG
Nellie vs Elizabeth by Kate Hannigan
Age Interest: 7-10 Grades: 2-4 Rating: 4/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is the real-life adventure story of two ladies who set out to go around the world in fewer than the 80 days that Jules Verne wrote about. In this real-life adventure, daredevil and groundbreaking journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland race against each other–and the clock–as they circle the globe by ship, train, and foot. Join these two stereotype-shattering reporters as they prove that not only is traveling around the world possible, but that women are just as curious, capable, and courageous as any man. If you enjoyed this story you might like to read Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. J 910.41 HAN
What’s Your Next Great Read?
Are you a tween looking for great adventure in far off lands or looking for your first great chapter book? Maybe you’re somewhere in-between. No matter your age or interest, the library has something new waiting for you!
Notorious by Gordon Korman Age Interest: 8-12 Grades 3-7 Rating: 5/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Tweens looking for a great adventure on an island that’s half in the United States and half in Canada ( a place so well described I had to look up whether it was real or not!) Meet Keenan who has arrived to live with his father on the U.S. side of the island and Zarabeth(ZeeBee) who lives on the Canadian side of the island in a house once occupied by gangsters. She also once had a dog who was the terror of the island and the new Barny II is the exact opposite of her old dog.
I really liked how the character and the setting were developed through the making of new friends and the consistent theme of the old Barney being compared to the new Barney and the mystery of the gangsters gold. Join the adventure while Keenan and ZeeBee unravel the clues and a conspiracy that dates back to Centerlight’s gangster past in the 1920’s. The bad news is that someone is after them. . .
Northwind by Gary Paulsen Age Interest: 9-12 Grades 3-7 Rating: 4/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Survival story in the Arctic! Leif is an 11 year old orphan in the wilds of the Arctic who is forced to take to the water in a cedar canoe when a deadly plague reaches the small fishing camp where he lives. He flees northward and learns to survive the plague, bears attacks, Orcas and hunger along a wild shore laced with high fjords, all on his own. Leif learns to connect with the ocean and live on his own. Another great survival book by Gary Paulsen. If you like this one, read Hatchet too!
Dragons and Marshmallows by Asia Citro Age Interest: 5-8 Grades 1-3 Rating: 4/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Do dragons like marshmallows or will they make them sick? From the Zoey and Sassafras series, Meet Zoey who can see magical animals and what’s even better they come to her barn to be taken care of. Fun read for the emerging reader who is ready for chapter books. What’s not to like about fixing magical animals?!
The Ember Stone by Katrina Charman Age Interest: 6-8 Grades 1-3 Rating: 4/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
From The Last Firehawk series, Magical animals abound in Perodia, but a dark magic used by a powerful vulture named Thorn is trying to destroy it. Can a young owl named Tag and Skyla, a perky squirrel, help save the island when they find the last Firehawk?
Anybody Here Seen Frenchie? by Leslie Connor Age Interest:8-11 Grades 3-6 Rating:5/5❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is the story of two 6th graders Aurora and Frenchie. Aurora is loud and boisterous and Frenchie does not talk. But… they understand each other. They both love nature and they are both a little bit different! They live in a small town in Maine where many of the people march to their own tune. When Frenchie goes missing all of these odd ball characters come together to search for him. This story “Honors the sweet mysteries of how to communicate with each other and the world.” (Kirkus Review Feb 2022)
Alien in My Pocket – Blast Off by Nate Ball Age Interest: 6-9 Grades 1-4 Rating: 5/5 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Catch this one on Libby! The first in a series, this is a perfect chapter book for a young readers. There’s a boy – Zach, a girl – Olivia, and a 4 inch tall blue alien – Amp. Will Zach have to protect the world from an alien invasion while trying to navigate 4th Grade? Or will he have to protect Amp from the world? Highly recommend this book with a DYI science experiment ! Have fun!