Color Our World: Independent Reader

Our 2025 Bookworm Summer Reading Theme is Color Your World. We invite you to explore the world around you through art and books. Here are some to get you started!

Updated February 4, 2025
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Parker dresses up
Curry, Parker
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling team behind Parker Looks Up returns with this Level 1 Ready-to-Read about the fun of dressing up and dreaming big! Parker is playing dress up with her younger siblings, Ava and Cash. With each costume, Parker imagines what her life...
Yasmin the fashionista
Faruqi, Saadia
Paper Book
Yasmin is bored! But a glimpse of the pretty clothes in Mama's closet turns a boring evening into a glamorous fashion show, until, OOPS! Mama's shalwar kameez is ruined! Can Yasmin's nani save the day before Mama gets home?
Uncle Fred is a knucklehead!
Gutman, Dan
Paper Book
With more than 32 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! In this second book of the My Weirdtastic School arc, join A.J. and friends as they become part of the studio audience for a TV show whose host can't seem to grow up! A.J. and the gang...
The Princess in Black and the Prince in Pink
Hale, Shannon
Paper Book
When plans for a ball run a-fowl, Princess Magnolia accepts the help of a valiant new hero to save her secret decorations--and the entire evening! Princess Magnolia is at the Flower Festival prepping for the evening ball when suddenly she hears a commotion. Oh no! She isn...
The Princess in black
Hale, Shannon
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller! 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...
Showtime!
Lyons, Kelly Starling
Paper Book
Ty rocks out with friends in this new book in the Geisel Honor-winning series! Join Ty on his imaginative adventures in Ty's Travels: Showtime, a My First I Can Read story by acclaimed author and illustrator team Kelly Starling Lyons and Niña Mata. Music, imagination,...
The color of sound
Isler, Emily Barth
Paper Book
"[A] salient celebration of family, music, and neurodiversity." --starred, Publishers Weekly "A top pick for any middle school collection; a perfect book club pick and a reminder to all that patience and understanding can change lives." --starred, School Library Journal Twelve-year...
The adventures of Captain Underpants : an epic novel
Pilkey, Dav
Paper Book
Laugh out loud with Captain Underpants, the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Dav Pilkey, the creator of Dog Man!Fourth graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins are a couple of class clowns. The only thing they enjoy more than playing practical jokes is creating their own comic...
Cat Kid Comic Club
Pilkey, Dav
Paper Book
  The perfect present for DOG MAN fans - starring some of your favourite characters from the series! Welcome to the Cat Kid Comic Club, where Li'l Petey (LP), Flippy, and Molly introduce twenty-onerambunctious, funny, and...
Poetry prompts : all sorts of ways to start a poem from Joseph Coelho
Coelho, Joseph
Paper Book
A compendium of poetry prompts from Joseph Coelho (Children's Laureate 2022-2024). *2024 Everymom Best Book for Early Reading* *2024 CBC Librarian FAVORITES* *2024 CBC Teacher FAVORITES* Each fun and engaging prompt for...
The Last Comics on Earth: Across the Doodleverse : From the Creators of the Last Kids on Earth
Cooper, Jay
Paper Book
The fourth and final installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series based on the worldwide phenomenon The Last Kids on Earth! In this final LAST COMICS adventure, our superheroes must face a mysterious new threat- Someone is stealing kids'...
Keep dancing, Lizzie Chu
Chan, Maisie
Paper Book
Keep trying, keep laughing, keep dancing!
Upstaged
Easter, Robin
Paper Book
★ "Sharply written and evocative" -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "This theater camp has plenty of captivating drama both on stage and off!" --Kayla Miller, New York Times bestselling creator of the Click graphic novel series ...
A copycat conundrum
Yee, Lisa
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . When San Francisco is under strange attacks-like earthquakes affecting only two city blocks at a time-who're you gonna call? An elite team of crime-fighting underdogs, that's who! The Misfits are on the case in this hilarious series from Newbery Honoree Lisa...
The Swifts
Lincoln, Beth
Paper Book
On the day they are born, each Swift is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name and a definition, and it is assumed they will grow up to match. Unfortunately, Shenanigan Swift has other ideas. So what if her relatives all think she's destined to turn out as a...
Besties : Work It Out
Miller, Kayla
Paper Book
A fun and fresh graphic-novel series spin-off of the New York Times bestselling Click books, featuring aspiring entrepreneurs Beth and Chanda! When the girls land a lucrative dogsitting gig, they're sure that fame, fortune, and popularity can't be far behind, but nothing can prepare them for the...
Picture day
Sax, Sarah
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . Everyone knows the most stressful day of middle school is picture day! And that's exactly where this yearbook-worthy graphic novel series begins- with reinventing yourself, drama, popularity, and the friends who see you through. "Picture perfect." -Terri...
Art year by year
Bowden, Alice
Paper Book
Travel through time to discover the paintings and sculptures that enrich our world. This brilliant book has a single timeline running through it - a glorious gallery of art through history, from prehistoric cave paintings to street art, and everything in between. Art...
The drawing lesson : a graphic novel that teaches you how to draw
Crilley, Mark
Paper Book
Read This Comic and Start Drawing Today! Nominated for a 2017 Eisner Award For the first time ever, drawing instructor and graphic novelist Mark Crilley brings his easy-to-follow artistic instruction to aspiring artists in the form of a comic book, providing you with a one-of-a...
Iconic Artists : A Celebration of the World's Extraordinary Artists
Csicsko, David Lee/ Sinclair, Lindy/ Csicsko, David Lee (ILT)
Paper Book
Iconic Artists highlights the origin and contributions of some of the world's most remarkable and gifted artists throughout history.  Bold, whimsical illustrations by David Lee Csicsko along with concise, engaging bios co-written by Csicsko and Lindy...

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