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Every week this Summer, we’re giving a list of books around our Summer Reading themes! Week Two’s theme is Nature Adventures. Scroll down to see a list of books about nature.

Picture Books

This is the tree we planted/ Bella Loves Bugs/ Details for: Lola plants a garden / Plants can’t sit still

Juvenile Fiction

Skunked!/ Moose hunt : lost in Alaska/ Trees : kings of the forest /Northwind 

Juvenile Nonfiction

 Many : the diversity of life on Earth / Story worlds : nature/ Wild tracks!/  Nature’s Light Spectacular 

 Young Adult

Wild bird/ Lola at last/Wildfire /The confusion of Laurel Graham 

Adult Fiction

The overstory / The bear/Force of nature/ Harry’s trees

Nonfiction

The nature of Kansas lands/ The voices of nature : how and why animals communicate / The smartest animals on the planet/ The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world

Sweet Tooth / Jeff Lemire

(Season Three)

A boy who is half human and half deer survives in a post-apocalyptic world with other hybrids.

June 6th/ Netflix/ Put on Hold

Queenie / Candice Carty-Williams

Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in south London, living in between two cultures and entering neatly into neither.

June 7th/ Hulu/ Put on Hold

The Watchers / A.M. Shine

June 7th/ Theaters/ Put on Hold

Presumed innocent / Scott Turow

It tells the story of a horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorneys’ office when one of its own is suspected of the crime.

June 14th/ Apple TV/ Put on Hold

Queen’s gambit / Elizabeth Fremantle

(Firebrand)

Follows Queen Katherine Parr & Henry VIII’s marriage.

June 21st/ Theaters/ Put on Hold

After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.

June 21st/ Theaters

La tierra de las mujeres by Sandra Barneda

(Land of Women)

June 26th/ Apple TV

My Lady Jane / Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

History’s most tragic heroines but reimagines it with an uplifting twist: the damsel in distress saves herself – and then the kingdom.

June 27th/ Amazon/ Put on Hold

Every week this Summer, we’re giving a list of books around our Summer Reading themes! Week One’s theme is Travel Adventures. Scroll down to see a list of books about travel or set around the world.

Picture Books

The travel game/ Details for: Lucia’s Travel Bus / The matatu / This Is Our World/ Hello world!

Juvenile Fiction

The mystery of the gold coin/ The explorer/ Pashmina / The remarkable journey of Coyote Sunrise/ A first time for everything : a true story 

Kids Nonfiction

Natural wonder bucket list/ Let’s celebrate! : special days around the world/ This is how we do it : one day in the lives of seven kids from around the world / Adventures on Earth

Young Adult

Let’s get lost)/At the end of the world / I see London, I see France/ Boys of the beast

Adult

Paris is always a good idea/ Wanderlust/ One Italian summer/The mostly true story of Tanner & Louise

Adult Nonfiction

Road trip USA : cross-country adventures on America’s two-lane highways)/ Lonely Planet’s Where to go when : the ultimate trip planner for every month of the year / The trivia lover’s guide to the world