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Summer Reading 2026: Read a book about someone who lives or looks differently from you
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- Great for ages 8 and up. Straddling two different timelines in Paris, France--one set in the Nazi-occupied 1940s; the other in our current day--this novel follows the mystery surrounding a painting that went missing during the French Resistance's…
- Recommended for ages 8 and up. Annabelle has a secret . . . a secret so big she won't allow friends within five miles of her home. Her mom collects things. Their house is overflowing with stuff. It gives Annabelle's sister nightmares, her brother…
- Recommended for ages 8 and up. "A classroom of middle schoolers with disabilities creates an imaginary "wizarding school" that seemingly becomes real and turns the whole school upside down"
- Recommended for ages 8 and up. "The year I turned twelve I learned that what I did and what I said mattered...The year I turned twelve I learned how to lie" Despite growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly…
- Recommend for ages 8 and up. Part gentle mystery, part ghostly fairy tale, this contemporary novel celebrates small towns, cozy storytelling, and one very determined ghost cat.
- Recommended for ages 10 and up. "In this quirky dark fantasy set in a small seaside town known as Gloom, a boy, desperate to help his mother pay the rent on the cottage they share, takes a job as a gentleman's valet, only to discover that his…
- Ages 4 and up. About a family that shares an adventurous bedtime routine of imaginative dragon battles, hot-air balloon rides, and flights to the moon.
- Ages 2 and up. A sensitive boy gets overwhelmed by all the sights, sounds, and sensations at the beach, but his dad has a trick to help his son face these unexpected obstacles.
- Ages 4 and up. In this boy-dog friendship story, a small dog, whose boy uses a wheelchair, narrates her own adventures on a day that might look ordinary to us and to her boy but that, for the dog, is filled with the highest highs and lowest lows.
- Ages 9 and up. Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
- Recommended for grades K and up. Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her free-diving haenyeo grandmother, a young Korean girl dutifully consumes her grandmother's strength-building abalone porridge and practices her breath control before suiting…
- Recommended for grades K and up. Newcomer Salma and friends cook up a heartwarming dish to cheer up Mama. All Salma wants is to make her mama smile again. Between English classes, job interviews, and missing Papa back in Syria, Mama always seems…
- Recommended for grades K and up. Aspiring astronaut Rocket draws her community together to see a rare appearance of the Phoenix Meteor Showers, hoping especially that her big brother, Jamal, will look up from his phone.
- Recommended for grades K and up. A wordless picture book about a day in the life of a houseless little boy and his mom whose home is wherever they can find one, as long as they are together
- Recommended for grades K and up. When a child has a "bad speech day" at school, his father gives him a new perspective on his stuttering.
- Recommended for grades K and up. Rescue thought he'd grow up to be a Seeing Eye dog -- it's the family business, after all. When he gets the news that he's better suited to being a service dog, he's worried that he's not up to the task. Then he…
- Recommended for grades 3rd and up. Down at the bottom of the tall buildings of New York City, Magnolia Wu sits inside her parents' laundromat. She has pinned every lost sock from the laundromat onto a bulletin board in hopes that customers will…
- Recommended for grades 4th and up. Ave must adjust to a new country, a new school, and a new family dynamic when their mom and younger brother move to Kansas while their father and older sister stay in Mexico during the parents' divorce.
- Recommended for grades 4th and up. Livy is already having trouble fitting in as the new girl at school--and then there's Viola. Viola is Livy's anxiety brought to life, a shadowy twin that only Livy can see or hear. Livy tries to push back against…
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