Children's Book Suggestions | Level Up At Your Library

A selection of chapter books and graphic novels about games and gaming to match our 2025 Summer Reading theme, Level Up At Your Library! For more game-themed books, you can browse the library catalog. For younger readers, check out this month's scavenger hunt in the Children's Room.

Updated April 17, 2025
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Children's Book Suggestions | Level Up At Your Library

A selection of chapter books and graphic novels about games and gaming to match our 2025 Summer Reading theme, Level Up At Your Library! For more game-themed books, you can browse the library catalog. For younger readers, check out this month's scavenger hunt in the Children's Room.

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Game over, Super Rabbit Boy!
Flintham, Thomas
Paper Book
Super Rabbit Boy is the strongest, bravest, fastest animal in all the land. . .and he's also the star in a video game! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high...

Bridging Fiction (Grades 2-4)

The legend of Memo Castillo
Alexander, William
Paper Book
Meet the kids in Mrs. Z's wacky and wonderful third-grade class! Memo Castillo can't wait for his first-ever MagiCon fan convention, but his plans are on the verge of collapse unless he can find a ride--fast!    Guillermo "Memo" Castillo and Theo Chang can...

Children's Fiction (Grades 3-5)

Trapped in a video game
Brady, Dustin
Paper Book
Kids who love video games will love this first installment of the best-selling 5-book series about 12-year-old Jesse Rigsby and the wild adventures he encounters while trapped inside different video games. Jesse Rigsby hates video games--and for good reason. You see, a video game...

Children's Fiction (Grades 3-5)

Dragon Ops
Mancusi, Mari
Paper Book
Welcome to DRAGON OPS, the world's first augmented-reality video-game theme park. Set on a once-deserted island, our three beta players - classic gamer geek Ian; his adventure-seeking sister, Lily; and their too-cool-for-gaming cousin, Derek - have been lucky enough to score an invitation to play...

Children's Fiction (Grades 3-5)

My video game ate my homework
Hansen, Dustin
Paper Book
Meet Dewey Jenkins, a 13-year old school kid who's about to fail science class. Follow Dewey on an amazing adventure that leads him and his friends to a virtual world where they will have to overcome all sorts of digital creatures and solve a number of puzzles in order to get home.

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

Table Titans Club
Kurtz, Scott R.
Paper Book
Growing pains, game-play adventure, and 20-sided dice abound in this new graphic novel series about a middle school Dungeons & Dragons club from an Eisner and Harvey Award-winning cartoonist. Valeria Winters has an easier time finding trouble than making friends. A fantasy...

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

Roll call
Ostertag, Molly Knox
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Molly Knox Ostertag and critically acclaimed illustrator Xanthe Bouma comes an all-new Dungeons & Dragons graphic novel series! Middle school is a dungeon... At least, that's how Jess sees it. Luckily, she and her best friend Olivia know how to...

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

Adventuregame comics. 1, Leviathan
Shiga, Jason
Ebook
Make choices to defeat a mysterious sea monster in Adventuregame Comics: Leviathan, the first of a series of innovative, interactive graphic novels from the award-winning creator of Meanwhile.   Adventuregame Comics is a new series of interactive...

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

Isle of ever
Calonita, Jen
Paper Book
Winner of a 2025 Good Housekeeping Best Kids' Books Award! A New York Times Bestseller Read with Jenna Jr. Summer Reading List Pick! "[An] atmospheric fantasy ride."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW "Fast-paced and satisfying."--School Library Journal,...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

Glitch
Graley, Sarah
Ebook
From comics rising star Sarah Graley, a fresh and funny middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl who must save a virtual world... and her own!Izzy has an incredible secret -- she can enter the world of her new video game! She meets Rae, a robot who says Izzy is destined to save Dungeon City from...

Young Teen Graphic Novel (Grades 5-7)

The Books of Clash 1 : Legendary Legends of Legendarious Achievery
Yang, Gene Luen/ McClaine, Les (ILT)/ Acton, Alison (ILT)
Paper Book
Based on Clash of Clans and Clash Royale and penned by superstar graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, this first volume of this action-packed eight-volume series brings the characters from everyone's favorite mobile gaming sensation to life! SEE! The illustrated exploits of one...

Young Teen Graphic Novel (Grades 5-7)

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