@ Your Library
Hope you have stocked up on good books to read on this long weekend from school. Maybe pick up a birding guide and spend some time outside watching, looking and listening for birds this weekend. I have definitely noticed birds looking like they are preparing to migrate if they haven’t already left. But which birds winter here and which migrate on? A book can help you figure that out.
We have some wonderful new graphic novels for kids including the third book in the Peapod Farm series by Lucy Knisley called Sugar Shack and focuses on winter at the farm and the making of maple syrup. Schoolbot 9000 by Sam Hepburn which features robots as teachers after they’ve already appeared at home, as pets and bugs. Can James figure out how to stop the robots from taking over everything? And a delightful look at navigating relationships with Lu and Ren’s Guide to Geozoology by Angela Hsieh.
Teens and adults can spook themselves out for Halloween with graphic editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s tales as adapted by Gou Tanabe including The Shadow Over Innsmouth or Hunger’s Bite by Taylor Robin for a supernatural tale on the Atlantic. Traveling to Mars by Mark Russell and Roberto Meli journeys with Roy Livingston and two Mars rovers as Roy becomes the first human to set foot on Mars, chosen simply because he is terminally ill and has no expectations to return to earth. Grow up with Craig Thompson and his siblings as they spend their summers working in the ginseng fields of rural Wisconsin in Ginseng Roots. Or travel back and forth between 1943 and 2011 Amsterdam as Emma and Annick seek to find their identities in Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout.
It is getting harder to remember to talk about the reading challenges. Last week’s post was to “Read an Adventure Story” of which there are plenty. Here is what we recommended. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis, My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, The Hobbit, Or there and back again by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty and James by Percival Everett.
Check out these authors for multiple book series including their latest, Anthony Horowitz and Marble Hall Murders, Kristen Perrin and How to Seal Your Own Fate and James Grippando and Grave Danger, J. A. Jance and Overkill, Carl Hiassen and Fever Beach and finally John Connolly and The Children of Eve. Of course this is just a smattering of authors who have books in series that would make lovely fall reading. Visit your local public library and find a new book in a series you love or find a whole new series to dive into. Or rebel and read only standalone titles this month. Whatever your fancy, come see us for great books.