"Books" Archive

Every week this Summer, we’re giving a list of books around our Summer Reading themes! Week Four’s theme is Treasure Hunt. Scroll down to see the list.

Picture Books and Early Readers

I spy treasure hunt : a book of picture riddles / Flat Stanley and the lost treasure/ Don’t mention pirates / Treasure 

Juvenile Fiction

Book Scavenger / Click here to start /Like magic/York : The shadow cipher / The Parker inheritance

Juvenile Nonfiction

Pirate treasure/ Pirates & buried treasure/ Lost tombs and treasure

Young Adult Fiction

 Major detours/ The jump /Every time you hear that song /A clash of steel/The rosewood hunt

Adult Fiction

Lost and found in Paris/The recovery agent/ Tuesday Mooney talks to ghosts / Details for: The bookshop of yesterdays/  One last gift

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

Picture Books

Mae among the stars/ The Moon’s first friends : how the Moon met the astronauts from Apollo 11/ Pluto gets the call/ Mousetronaut goes to Mars\

Juvenile Fiction and Graphic Novels

Solar system : our place in space/ Rocket to the moon!/ Laika/  A rover’s story

Juvenile Nonfiction

Space in 30 Seconds/ Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race / Space/ Look Up!: Henrietta Leavitt, pioneering woman astronomer

Young Adult Fiction

Starflight/ The loneliest girl in the universe /Across the universe/ Illuminae

Adult Fiction

The deep sky/ Orbital/ The wanderers /Spaceman of bohemia

Nonfiction

Startalk : everything you ever need to know about space travel, sci-fi, the human race, the universe, and beyond / The six : the untold story of America’s first women astronauts/ The universe and beyond / Shoot for the moon : the space race and the extraordinary voyage of Apollo 11

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