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Page to Screen (Kids Version) - Summer Adventure 2025

Do you enjoy reading the book before seeing the movie or tv adaptation? We have suggestions for children's books that have recently been adapted for screen or tv, or are in production. "AC Library invites everyone to participate in our 2025 Summer Adventure. Complete activities, reading, and more to receive a book gift and prize drawing entries. Start building your own Summer Adventure June 1 at any AC library location (including our mobile library stops) and online at aclibrary.org/summer."

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  • "A very small bear found by Mr. and Mrs. Brown at Paddington Station becomes one of the family." Paddington in Peru came out earlier this year.
    Book, 2014New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2014 — J BOND,M
  • "After ten-year-old Sophia meets her unicorn, Rainbow, at Lakeside Unicorn Academy, they're away on their first amazing adventure--they must discover who is tampering with the lake that gives unicorns their magic!"
    Book, 2018New York : Random House, [2018] — J Pbk UNICORN
  • The second adventure arrives on screens this summer. Read the first few books in the series to catch up! The Bad Guys are trying to start a new life as Good Guys, but they are forced to assist in one more job by a group of female criminals.
    Book, 2017New York : Scholastic Inc., [2017] — J BLABEY,A
  • First book in the popular Dog Man graphic novel series. Meet Dog Man, half dog, half man. Crime fighter constantly battling his nemesis, Petey the Cat.
    Graphic Novel, 2016New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2016 — JGN DOG v.1
  • "The misadventures of two terrible old people who enjoy playing nasty tricks and are finally outwitted by a family of monkeys."
    Book, 2017New York, New York : Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017 — J DAHL,R
  • "Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon." The live-action movie…
    Book, 2010New York : Little Brown and Company, [2010] — J Pbk HOW
  • "When twelve-year-old Onyeka discovers that she has psychokinetic powers, her mother reveals that she is Solari, part of a secret group of Nigerian mutants that trains at the Academy of the Sun." Optioned for film but still in pre-production, but…
    Book, 2022New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2022 — J OKOGWU,T
  • Goosebumps: the Vanishing is out now, and is an anthology of several Goosebumps titles, including Stay Out of the Basement. "When Margaret and Casey see their father become weedy while working on his botany experiments, they worry that his…
    Book, 2011New York : Scholastic, [2011] — J Pbk GOOSEBUMPS
  • Season two of the tv show is being released at the end of 2025, and season three is in production. "After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like…
    Book, 2005New York : Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children, c2005 — J RIORDAN,R
  • The movie sequel, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip, doesn't exactly follow the books. But if you'd like to read about Alexander and his family before you see the sequel, this book is the place to start.
    Picture Book, 2009New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009 — JPB VIORST,J