2024 TD Summer Reading Club Books for Older Readers

Updated September 12, 2024
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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...
Also available in eBook format.
The Boy Who Woke the Sun
Woodley, A. T.
Paper Book
Eleven-year-old Elliot is having a dismal pandemic summer when suddenly he's caught in the bubble of one of his own dreams and transported to another world, controlled by evil butterflies, where the sun doesn't shine. Along with his octopus sidekick, Elliot discovers the reason for these...

Also available in eBook format.

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 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...
Also available in eBook format.
Earth, sea & stars
Otter, Isabel
Paper Book
This collection of 20 engaging stories about the natural world is drawn from global cultures and reminds readers of everyone's responsibility to care for and respect Earth.    In this collection of 20 stories from many global cultures readers will journey all...
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...

Also available in eBook format.

Gnome is where your heart is
Lyall, Casey
Paper Book
Lemon Peabody is certain that aliens visited Grandpa Walt thirty years ago, but she's running out of time to prove it before he forgets his best story. This humorous and tenderhearted story about family, friendship, and always believing in yourself is for fans of Greg van Eekhout, Stuart Gibbs,...
Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats.
The portal keeper
Robertson, David
Paper Book
While exploring World's End, an area in Aski they've just discovered, Morgan and Emily delight in their developing relationship, while Eli struggles to understand his new-found power: the ability to locate a portal. A shocking turn of events leads them to a new village, Ministik, where the animal...
Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats.
A rover's story
Warga, Jasmine
CD
Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats.
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...
Also available in eBook format.
Stick to It (Hockey Super Six)
Sylvester, Kevin
Paper Book
A very special group of kids must save the world with -- what else? -- HOCKEY! Meet six kids a lot like you. Except . . . . . . Benny, Jenny, Karl, Starlight, DJ and Mo got zapped in an evil plot gone wrong -- and became the super-est team the world has ever seen. Lucky thing...
Also available in eBook format.
The Superteacher Project
Korman, Gordon
Paper Book
It's The Unteachables meets I, Robot in another funny middle school tale from Gordon Korman! It's the start of a new school year and Oliver is looking forward to a seventh-grade year full of spitballs, jokes and pranks with his friend Nathan. And their new homeroom teacher,...

Also available in eBook format.

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-winningYour Place in the Universe. In Your Place in the Universe, Jason Chin zoomed outward, from our planet, solar...
Also available in eBook format.

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