Library Adventures: Green Libraries

Library Adventures is our free, year-round reading for pleasure programme for children aged 4-11.

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Updated October 17, 2025
Kirklees Libraries
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The extraordinary colours of Auden Dare
Bethell, Zillah
Paper Book
A beautiful friendship and coming-of-age story in middle-grade, The Extraordinary Colors of Auden Dare by Zillah Bethell is lightly futuristic, and deeply compelling. Auden Dare is colorblind and lives in a world where water is scarce and families must live on a weekly,...
Beetle Boy
Leonard, M.G
Paper Book
Darkus Cuttle's dad mysteriously goes missing from his job as Director of Science at the Natural History Museum. Vanished without a trace! From a locked room! So Darkus moves in with his eccentric Uncle Max and next door to Humphrey and Pickering, two lunatic cousins with an enormous beetle...
Sona Sharma, Looking After Planet Earth
Soundar, Chitra.
Paper Book
Sona is determined to get her whole suburban Indian neighborhood to help fight climate change in this second heartwarming story. When Sona learns about the climate crisis at school, she worries nobody is doing enough to combat it. So she takes up the challenge herself! But her...

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