2024 TD Summer Reading Club Books for Older Readers

Asha and Baz meet Mary Sherman Morgan

Fernandez, Caroline (Blogger)

Paper Book

Discover the magic, adventure, history and science of the Asha and Baz chapter book series. Asha and Baz have a paper rocket to launch! Whoever builds the rocket that travels the farthest will get to meet astronaut Chris Hadfield. The only problem is Asha and Baz...

Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super

Camlot, Heather.

Paper Book

Take a tour of the science of superpowers and see how science fiction is becoming science fact If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Fly like Shazam? Turn invisible like Violet Parr? Or maybe have the super strength of the Hulk? Believe it or not, many of the extraordinary...

The biker bandits

Perreault, Guillaume

Paper Book

Bob is a dedicated and deadpan mail carrier who tries to remain unfazed even when his delivery assignments are increasingly weirder and weirder. The colorful art features extraterrestrials and cinematic views of awe-inspiring alien landscapes. Bob's adventures are as harrowing as they...

The chaos monster

DasGupta, Sayantani

Paper Book

EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING, AND IT'S UP TO TWINS KIYA AND KINJAL TO SAVE IT ALL Ten-year-old Kinjal knows something strange is going on. But he does not expect his dog, Thums-up, to disappear before his eyes in the middle of the night! Even stranger, two enormous flying horses...

Earth school

Kent, Deanna

Paper Book

Where's the best place on Earth for the Marshmallow Martians to learn new things? School, of course! This new graphic chapter series will delight independent readers with its hilarious second installment! Lunchboxes, recess, and gym--oh my! Without G.L.O.W., their Galactic...

Far out!

Bustard, Anne

Paper Book

From the author of Blue Skies comes a lively middle grade novel about a young, alien-loving girl trying to clear her grandmother's name in this mystery that has humor, hijinks, and heart in equal measure. It's 1964, the Space Race is well underway, and eleven-year-old...

A few beautiful minutes : experiencing a solar eclipse

Fox, Kate Allen

Paper Book

A poetic and exquisitely illustrated tribute to the solar eclipse and the magic of togetherness, seen through the eyes of a child. What happens during a solar eclipse? The sun vanishes. Light becomes dark. Day animals sleep, and night animals wake. The moon takes over the sky....

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...

The forbidden island

Trueit, Trudi Strain

Ebook

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...

Glow

GonzÃ¡lez, Noelia

Paper Book

Glow: A Family Guide to the Night Sky is a lushly illustrated introduction to the wonders of the night sky, inviting young readers to explore stars, planets, and other celestial bodies and learn how to spot them. Get ready to explore the night sky!...

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...

Grace needs space!

Wilgus, Benjamin A.

Paper Book

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A rover's story

Warga, Jasmine

Paper Book

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...

Saving the night : how light pollution is harming life on Earth

Aitken, Stephen

Paper Book

Key Selling Points Light pollution is threatening the survival of plants and animals all over the world and the ecosystems they depend on. For example, millions of migratory birds die every year because of light pollution. More than 80 percent of the world lives under...

A sky of paper stars

Yi, Susie

Paper Book

A Sky of Paper Stars is a heartrending middle-grade graphic novel by Susie Yi about a girl's ill-fated wish to fit in, perfect for readers of Stargazing and Pashmina. All Yuna wants is to belong. She wants to go to sleepovers, have a smart...

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...

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...

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...

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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