AUTHOR: Christina Soontornvat GENRE: Nonfiction, Middle Grade Nonfiction, True Story / Survival, Children’s Nonfiction SUMMARY: All Thirteen recounts the events of June 2018, when twelve members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach entered a cave in northern Thailand and became trapped by rising floodwaters. The book follows the seventeen-day rescue operation that…
AUTHOR: Katherine Applegate GENRE: Middle Grade Fiction, Fantasy, Children’s Fiction, Friendship SUMMARY: Pocket Bear follows a small teddy bear who was created during World War I to fit in a soldier’s pocket as a good luck charm. More than a century later, he lives at the Second Chances Home for the Tossed and Treasured, a…
AUTHOR: Aaron Johnson GENRE: Middle Grade Fiction, Mystery, Adventure, Children’s Fiction SUMMARY: Mystery in Rocky Mountain National Park (National Park Mystery Series) follows Jake Evans, who inherits a set of hidden codes, riddles, maps, and other clues from his late grandfather. These lead Jake and his friends Amber and Wes on a scavenger hunt through…
AUTHOR: Roald Dahl GENRE: Children’s Fiction, Fantasy, Classic Children’s Literature, Adventure, Humor SUMMARY: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory follows Charlie Bucket, a kind but poor boy who lives with his parents and grandparents. When the reclusive chocolatier Willy Wonka announces a contest to find five golden tickets hidden inside chocolate bars, winners will receive a…
AUTHOR: NIV Bible GENRE: Religious Text SUMMARY: The Book of Jonah tells the story of the prophet Jonah, who is commanded by God to go to the city of Nineveh and preach against its wickedness. Instead of obeying, Jonah flees in the opposite direction by boarding a ship bound for Tarshish. During a violent storm,…
AUTHOR: Sarah Weeks GENRE: Middle Grade Fiction, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Children’s Fiction SUMMARY: Pie follows Alice, a young girl whose beloved aunt, a famous pie baker in their small town, passes away and leaves her pie shop to Alice. The will includes a condition: Alice must figure out her aunt’s secret pie crust recipe in…
AUTHOR: Ellen Raskin GENRE: Mystery, Middle Grade Fiction, Classic Children’s Literature, Puzzle Mystery, Realistic Fiction SUMMARY: The Westing Game follows sixteen people who are brought together for the reading of the will of the wealthy Samuel W. Westing. The will declares that one of them is responsible for his death and challenges the group to…
AUTHOR: Laura Ingalls Wilder GENRE: Historical Fiction, Children’s Fiction, Classics, Farm, Semi-autobiographical Fiction SUMMARY: Farmer Boy follows nine-year-old Almanzo Wilder through a year on his family’s large farm in 1860s New York. The story shows Almanzo learning the value of hard work as he helps with daily chores, cares for animals, and participates in the…
AUTHOR: Patricia Brennan Demuth GENRE: Juvenile Non-Fiction, Biography, History SUMMARY: Who really lived inside The Little House on the Prairie? Find out in this young biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder! Readers will see just how similar Laura’s true-life story was to her books. Born in 1867 in the “Big Woods” in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the…
AUTHOR: Betty G. Birney GENRE: Juvenile Fiction, Humorous, Animals, Fantasy, School SUMMARY: Humphrey usually helps solve problems, but now he’s caused a big one: Golden-Miranda gets in trouble when Humphrey is caught outside of his cage on her watch. No one knows about his lock-that-doesn’t-lock and he can’t exactly squeak up on her behalf. While…
