Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson Lindsay says, For fans of lovable meddling kids like Ramona Quimby or Clementine, Ryan Hart is sure to win you over. Her family is moving and her dad has a new job, and they’re all having some trouble adjusting to their new life. But Ryan is determined to make her family smile.
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Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery by Kevin O’Malley Staff says, A great riff on earlier cinema serials like Buck Rogers, this book, other than being a adventure led by DINOSAURS who fly rockets INTO SPACE rendered in detailed illustrations, is a series of dramatic cliffhangers.
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Trouble at Table 5: The Candy Caper by Tom Watson Melissa says, Molly gets ideas stuck in her head sometimes. She noticed a jar of candy on the principal’s desk and just has to know how many are in there. She and her best friends, Simon and Rose, come up with a plan to figure out the exact number. They’ve never broken the rules before.
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Young Adult Scott says, One of Charlize Theron’s most overlooked performances has her as a Gen-Xer wallowing in her supposed glorious days trying to get what she feels is owed. From the creators of Juno but a little more acerbic in its comedy – a female anti-hero with no socially redeeming arc or life lessons.
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The Old Guard by Greg Rucka illustrated by Leandro Fernandez Michael says, This very pulpy and bloody book has some of that flavor of The Highlander as four immortals dealing with their endless lives when a new immortal emerges. They take their warrior experience and make the world a better place through combat and camaraderie, no matter the cost.
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Lakewood by Megan Giddings Staff says, When Lena receives an invitation to join a well-paying research study, she sees it as an opportunity to provide her mother with top tier health insurance and dig her family out of debt. As the study continues, Lena’s concept of reality starts to warp.
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Kent State by Deborah Wiles Amanda says, A number of perspectives – student, townie, member of the National Guard – explain the incidents on the campus of Kent State in May of 1970. The at-times sparse prose is presented in a manner that will appeal to middle grade students while providing a wealth of background information for those that may want to research further.
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Looper Michael says, Now that everyone has agreed to disagree about Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi, but everyone loves Knives Out, we need to look again at his back catalog of work. This unique take on time travel, more about character and their world than physics.
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Gregor the Overlander by Susanne Collins Melissa says, Gregor the Overlander is the first of five books in the Underland Chronicles, which Suzanne Collins wrote before The Hunger Games.
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Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots by Michael Rex Amanda says, One our selected Summer Reading recommendations, this picture book presents the differences between facts and opinions in a simple-to-understand, humorous way – it’s a subtle, albeit necessary lesson.
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