Unearth a Story: Independent Reader

Our 2026 Bookworm Summer Reading Theme is Unearth a Story. Dig into these exciting reads to get you started!

Updated April 6, 2026
Southeastern Ohio Regional Library Chillicothe & Ross County Public Library
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Unearth a Story: Independent Reader

Our 2026 Bookworm Summer Reading Theme is Unearth a Story. Dig into these exciting reads to get you started!

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Dinosaur!
Woodward, John
Paper Book
DK's best-selling illustrated encyclopedia series takes you back to the Mesozoic Era, when fearsome dinosaurs roamed the land, sea, and skies. Discover dinosaurs as you've never seen them before through jaw-dropping 3D illustrations in this dinosaur encyclopedia for kids ages 9+....
How do dinosaurs get well soon?
Yolen, Jane.
Paper Book
The bestselling, award-winning team of Yolen and Teague are back with another playful dinosaur tale--this time about a sick dinosaur child who catches the flu and must go to the doctor.What if a dinosaur catches the flu?Does he whimper and whine between each "At-choo"?Does he drop dirty tissues all...
How do dinosaurs say good night? ... and more stories that rhyme
Yolen, Jane.
DVD
Includes: How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?; In the Small, Small Pond; Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin; and All the Color of the Earth. DVD also includes three bonus stories.
Dinosaurs! the biggest, baddest, strangest, fastest
Zimmerman, Howard.
Paper Book
Dinosaurs! Here are those marvelous monsters of the Mesozoic as you've never seen them before! In this colossal collection, you will find dinosaurs larger than houses and dinosaurs as small as cats. Dinosaurs faster than Ostriches. Dinosaurs with 12-inch claws that could...
Lost time
Mukanik, Tas
Paper Book
Jurassic World meets How to Train Your Dragon in this gorgeously drawn, adventure-packed middle grade graphic novel about a girl who gets trapped 65 million years in the past and must learn to survive with only her wits...and the pterosaur she befriends. Twelve-year...
Coding with dinosaurs
Burns, Kylie
Paper Book
From sequencing to debugging, this title teaches readers important coding skills through fun, dino-centric activities such as drawing a stegosaurus and escaping a T-rex. Each activity includes text on how the activity showcases a coding skill. A follow-up after each activity encourages readers to...
Dinosaurs before dark
Osborne, Mary Pope.
Paper Book
Where did the magic tree house come from? Before Jack and Anie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them back to the prehistoric past. Now can they do it before dark... or will they become a dinosaur's dinner?
The talking T. Rex
Roy, Ron
Paper Book
Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to Z! Kids love collecting the entire alphabet and super editions! With over 8 million copies in print, the A to Z Mysteries have been hooking chapter book readers on mysteries and reading for years. Now this classic kid...
The test of time : the sixth journey through time
Stilton, Geronimo
Paper Book
A thrilling quest through the past!A fur-raising journey through time!I, Geronimo Stilton, found myself traveling through time once again! While testing his latest time machine, Professor von Volt accidently brought some history into the present. Tops, our triceratops friend, Helen of Troy, Attila...
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