2024 TD Summer Reading Club Books for Older Readers

Updated September 12, 2024
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Clues to the universe
Li, Christina
Paper Book
This stellar debut by APALA Award-winning author Christina Li about losing and finding family, forging unlikely friendships, and searching for answers to big questions will resonate with fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Rebecca Stead. The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than...

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Maker comics. Design a game!
Wolf, Bree
Paper Book
Inside Maker Comics: Design a Game!, the next volume of First Second's DIY comic series, you'll find step-by-step instructions for six tabletop game design projects! Siblings Shen, Shondra, and Shontoya arrive at Ludum Omega Summer Camp with a passion for games, and...
Earth to aliens
Bitt, Nate
Paper Book
Travis and Journey have a mission that's out of this world in the fourth book in the Arcade World graphic novel chapter book series. Travis, Journey, and their new pal, Devonte, embark on a new adventure that takes them off-planet and into distant outer space as a new game,...
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The enchanted bridge
Elliott, Zetta
Paper Book
Getting three baby dragons back home was just the beginning. Now Jaxon is on a mission to help all magical creatures from Dragons in a Bag! But things in the magical realm are more complicated than they seem in the fourth book in the critically acclaimed series. With their...

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The first cat in space ate pizza
Barnett, Mac
Paper Book
"Ridiculously fun and brilliantly illustrated." --Dav Pilkey, creator of Dog Man and Captain Underpants As seen on The TODAY Show! New York Times bestselling Mac Barnett and Caldecott Honor award-winning illustrator Shawn Harris turn their massively popular The First Cat in Space Ate...
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The forbidden island
Trueit, Trudi Strain
Paper Book
Amid assignments that take the Explorer Academy recruits from the iceberg-filled waters of Antarctica to the bone-dry deserts of Argentina, Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece of the cipher. With Nebula agents and the elusive explorer spy still out there, his opportunity to...
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Garvey's choice
Grimes, Nikki
Paper Book
This emotionally resonant novel in verse by award-winning author Nikki Grimes celebrates choosing to be true to yourself. Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a...
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Cat's cradle. Book 1, The golden twine
Rioux, Jo-Anne.
Paper Book
Now available as a motion comic! In this steampunk fantasy graphic novel, an orphan girl named Suri, barely earning her keep with a traveling merchant camp, has ambitions of becoming a heroic monster tamer. Suri is convinced monster taming is her destiny, defiantly...
Also available in eBook format.
Grace needs space!
Wilgus, Benjamin A.
Ebook
To the moon and back! A sci-fi middle-grade graphic novel about a young girl's long-awaited summer trip across space with one of her moms. But when her relationship with her mom goes sideways, so does her trip. Will Grace be able to save her summer vacation before it ends? Grace...
Also available in eBook format.
Journey around the sun : the story of Halley's comet
Gladstone, James
Paper Book
Halley's Comet tells its own history in this unique STEM book Halley's Comet, visible from Earth only once every 75 years, tells its own story in this unique informational picture book. With each return of the comet, the book highlights human life at that...
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Long distance
Gardner, Whitney
Paper Book
From the creator of Fake Blood comes another exceptionally charming middle grade graphic novel about friendships both near and far, far away. Vega's summer vacation is not going well. When her parents decide it's time to pack up and leave her hometown of...
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The Marvellers
Clayton, Dhonielle
Paper Book
Dhonielle Clayton makes her middle-grade debut with a fantasy adventure set in a global magic school in the sky --an instant New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller! "The Marvellers deserves the highest compliment I can give a book: I want to live...

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One tiny bubble : the story of our Last Universal Common Ancestor
Krossing, Karen
Paper Book
The wondrous true story of one tiny bubble that sparked all life on Earth--including yours Meet LUCA--our Last Universal Common Ancestor, the itty-bitty organism that every unique life-form on Earth can be traced back to. This sprinkle-sized blob was formed from the dust of exploded stars,...
Packing for Mars for kids
Roach, Mary
Paper Book
What is it like to float weightlessly in the air? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a spacewalk? How do astronauts go to the bathroom? Is it true that they don't shower? Can farts really be deadly in space? Best-selling Mary Roach has the answers. In this...
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A rover's story
Warga, Jasmine
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller * Best Book of the Year from The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library The One and Only Ivan meets The Wild Robot in this unique and deeply moving middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover, from...
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Star Knights
Davault, Kay
Paper Book
A simple frog who wants to become a legendary knight finds himself on a magical journey. From the comic artist behind Oddity Woods comes a fantasy graphic novel with a lot of heart, adventure, and hijinks! What makes a hero? Brave Star Knights are heroes who...
Starboy : inspired by the life and lyrics of David Bowie
Gigot, Jami
Paper Book
A starry-eyed ode to self-expression and staying true to yourself, inspired by the life and lyrics of beloved icon David Bowie. For as long as David could remember, he felt like a stranger on his own planet. As if he'd fallen to Earth from outer space...
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The superteacher project
Korman, Gordon
Paper Book
From Gordon Korman, the bestselling author of Restart and The Unteachables, comes a hilarious new story about a mysterious new teacher who turns out to be an AI robot from a secret experimental program. Oliver Zahn, spitball champion and self-declared rule-wrecker of Brightling Middle...

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This planet rocks!
Roth, Jonathan
Paper Book
Two mismatched rovers alone on a distant planet - what could possibly go wrong? When Rover crash-lands on a rocky planet and finds Speck stranded and in need of a battery charge, the two hardly seem destined to be teammates. Rover: organized, careful and on a mission to explore the galaxy. Speck:...

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Trouble in the stars
Prineas, Sarah
Paper Book
"A space chase that would feel right at home in the world of Star Wars. Unexpectedly out of this world." --Kirkus Reviews   From acclaimed author Sarah Prineas comes an action-packed, funny, and heartwarming outer-space adventure about a troublesome little shape...
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The universe in you : a microscopic journey
Chin, Jason
Paper Book
Jason Chin, winner of the Caldecott Medal for Watercress, dives into the microscopic building blocks of life in this companion to the award-winning Your Place in the Universe. In Your Place in the Universe, Jason Chin zoomed outward, from our planet, solar...
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