This week’s Summer Reading theme is World Cultures and Global Citizenship, so we’re featuring books that take place around the world, or with characters who celebrate their cultural heritage.
Can you believe we’re already halfway through 2023?! Take a look at just a few of the books Andover staff has enjoyed reading so far this year!
Angela
Yours Truly/ Happy Place/ The Day You Begin
Caitlyn
This is how you lose the time war/ witch hat atelier
Jessica
Wonder Cat series/Yotsuba&! series/ Odder/ Finally Seen
Kathy
1000 hours outside by Ginny Yurich/ Pug who wanted to be a bunny by Bella Swift/ Five little monkey books by Eileen Christelow/ Wordy Birdy by Tammy Sauer/ Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown (yes, it was so good I read it again)/ Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel/ Storm Watch by CJ Box/ Walk along the beach by Debbie Macomber
Kendra
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume/ Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern
Sydney
Wonder Cat 1-3
Toby
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells/ Frizzy by Claribel Ortega (Graphic Novel)/ How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes
Tom
How the Medici Shaped the Renaissance (audio) / Four Seasons in Rome (audio)
Adapted by Ben Chanan (Cyberbully, The Capture) Then You Run follows a close-knit group of rebellious London teenagers on a getaway in Rotterdam – but after the estranged father of Tara (Leah McNamara) is discovered dead, they find themselves on the run across Europe with three kilos of heroin and a host of deadly criminals snapping at their heels. Leading the hunt against Tara and her childhood friends – reckless Stink (Vivian Oparah) sharp Ruth (Yasmin Monet Prince) and loyal Nessi (Isidora Fairhurst) – is Tara’s uncle Reagan (Richard Coyle) a notorious gangster haunted by his past who will stop at nothing to track down his missing cache of drugs. But Reagan isn’t the only person they should fear – because all the while a terrifying and mythical serial killer known only as ‘The Traveller’ draws closer on a collision course with them all.
July 7th/TV
Dawn by V.C. Andrews
Follows the dark, twisted history of Dawn Longchamp and her family, along with the Cutler and Booth families.
July 8th/ Lifetime
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
(new season)
A complex saga of humans scattered on planets throughout the galaxy all living under the rule of the Galactic Empire.
After an entity of mysterious origin annihilates the world’s population causing those who observe it to take their lives, Sebastián and his daughter begin their own great adventure of survival in Barcelona.
Helen signs up for a wilderness survival course, a year after getting divorced. She discovers through this experience that sometimes, you have to get really lost in order to find yourself.
