Superheroes

A list of suggested titles for this summer's Reading is an Adventure Challenge: Superheroes. Features picture books, chapter books, and graphic novels.

Updated June 24, 2024
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Rocket and Groot : stranded on planet shopping mall
Angleberger, Tom.
Paper Book
An original fiction title starring Rocket and Groot from the highly popular Guardians of the Galaxy film. This middle grade novel, perfect for 8-12 year olds, follows Rocket Raccoon and his walking, talking tree buddy Groot, as they crash-land on a mysterious planet made up of 99 cent...
Heroes of the high seas
Bright, J. E.
Paper Book
Deep in the ocean, TOPO THE OCTOPUS plays some relaxing music for AQUAMAN. Suddenly, a huge whirlpool appears in the distance, threatening the city of ATLANTIS. Without a moment to lose, AQUAMAN leaps aboard his SUPER-SEAHORSE, STORM, and jets toward the liquid tornado. While the SEA KING rescues a...
Rocket and Groot. The hunt for Star-Lord
Deibert, Amanda
Paper Book
Join Marvel's fan-favorites Rocket and Groot in this hilarious, high-octane original graphic novel! Rocket and Groot are living their best lives touring the galaxy for the very best deep-dish pizza in the universe. Just as Rocket is about to bite down on a gooey slice of pizza with extra...
The super life of Ben Braver
Emerson, Marcus
Paper Book
An extraordinary boy ends up at an extraordinary school for children with super powers in the first book in a new middle-grade series from Marcus Emerson, author of Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja. Ben Braver is an ordinary kid. All he wants to do is finish his summer...
How to be a supervillain /
Fry, Michael,
Audiobook
In this rollicking middle-grade adventure and national bestseller, Michael Fry's witty text and hysterical artwork combines superhero action with classic fish-out-of-water humor. Victor Spoil comes from a long line of famous supervillains and he's fully expected to join...
Max Meow :
Gallagher, John,
Paper Book
A USA TODAY Bestseller! Meet a secret superhero with CAT-ITUDE--Max Meow, Cat Crusader--in this purr-fectly awesome, hiss-sterically funny graphic novel series just right for fans of Dog Man and InvestiGators! Max is just a regular cat in Kittyopolis, trying to make...
The Princess in black
Hale, Shannon
Paper Book
Who says princesses don't wear black? When trouble raises its blue monster head, Princess Magnolia ditches her flouncy dresses and becomes the Princess in Black! Princess Magnolia is having hot chocolate and scones with Duchess Wigtower when . . . Brring! Brring! The...
Superhero dad
Knapman, Timothy
Paper Book
A vibrant, humorous and warmhearted celebration of all the incredible things a dad can do. A soon-to-be-classic book about the specialness of dad (and their superhero sons!).
Ace takes flight
McCarthy, Cory
Paper Book
Welcome to 2048. Every graduate of the B.E.S.T. Program can receive a bionic enhancement as a rite of passage in this inclusive tween series. For Ace Wells, it is just the beginning of his epic augmentation journey in book one of this near-future sci-fi trilogy. ...
Leon the extraordinary
Nicholas, Jamar
Paper Book
Leon is an ordinary kid who becomes extraordinary when he fights a supervillain to save his school! "Leon is a superhero, whose powers are kindness and common sense. It's a really good book about a really good kid!" -- Jerry Craft, author and illustrator of New Kid ...
Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun
Okogwu, Tola
Paper Book
Black Panther meets X-Men in this "fast-paced, action-packed, and empowering" (A. F. Steadman, New York Times bestselling author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief) middle grade adventure about a British Nigerian girl who learns that her Afro hair has psychokinetic...
The adventures of Captain Underpants : the first epic novel
Pilkey, Dav
Paper Book
Fourth graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins invent the wedgie-powered superhero Captain Underpants in the first book in this #1 New York Times bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of Dog Man!George and Harold are a couple of class clowns. The only thing they enjoy...
Stuntboy, in the meantime
Reynolds, Jason
Paper Book
A Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Grade From Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you've never heard of, filled with...
Spellbound
Smith, Ronald L.
Paper Book
"Thirteen-year-old TChalla cant wait to go back to America to visit his friends Sheila and Zeke, who are staying with Sheila"s grandmother in Beaumont, a small Alabama town, over their summer break. But as TChalla explores the town, he finds that a man named Bob happens to be everywhere he is. When...

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