Tween Summer Reads

Updated June 10, 2025
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Johnny, the sea, and me
Escobar, Melba
Paper Book
A 2025 Batchelder Honor Book! ★ A heartwarming middle-grade novel from Colombia about a ten-year-old boy and the larger-than-life figure who changes him forever. Pedro is dealing with a lot for a ten-year-old kid, both at school and at home. So he's overjoyed when his mom...
Monster Camp
Henning, Sarah
Paper Book
Ghost Squad meets Hotel Transylvania in this sweetly spooky fish-out-of-water middle grade "mirthful monster mashup" (Kirkus Reviews) about a human girl who must put on the performance of her life when she realizes what she thought was a LARPing summer camp is full of real...
Second chance summer
Kapit, Sarah
Paper Book
Breaking up is hard to do, especially when it's with your best friend. Can these two ex-besties survive summer camp together? Maddie and Chloe have always been best friends, until last year, when Chloe's popularity and budding fame as an actor left Maddie in the dust one too...
The world between blinks
Kaufman, Amie
Paper Book
Discover a magical world where lost things are found ... Whenever cousins Jake and Marisol get together, adventure follows. They have their late Nana to thank for that. Her epic trips and treasure hunts were the stuff of family legend. This summer, with the whole...
The tail of Emily Windsnap
Kessler, Liz
Paper Book
"Liz Kessler makes a splash with this tightly written, highly imaginative debut." — FAMILYFUN For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the...

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