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2010's Babies (Books Set in the Decade You Were Born - 2010s) - Summer Adventure 2025

2010's babies may not be adults yet, but have already lived through many notable historic events. From historical fiction to fantasy and even ghost stories, this list of books for ages 5-15 captures the spirit of the decade. 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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  • (Ages 8-12) It's June 2015 and 12-year-old Maren is not all that excited to be attending the Charlotte Goodman Theater Camp for the summer. However, Maren is soon drawn into a mystery involving a series of clues that may lead to the missing diamond…
    Book, 2022New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022 — J KEY,J
  • (Ages 8-12) It's February of 2014 in the seaport city of Sevastopol in Crimea. Sofiya Oleksandrivna only wants two things: to figure out a way to get Ilya Ilyich to stop bullying her, and to convince her mother to come back home. But as battleships…
    Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Press, 2024 — J LUCYK-BERGER,C
  • (Ages 5-9) The courageous and true story of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, who in the midst of the Syrian Civil War offered safe haven to Aleppo's abandoned cats.
    Picture Book, 2020New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2020] — JPB LATHAM,I
  • (Ages 10-15) 1982: Mary is a lonely orphan at the Thornhill Institute For Children at the very moment that it's shutting its doors. When her few friends are all adopted or re-homed and she's left to face a volatile bully alone, her revenge will have…
    Book, 2017New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017 — J SMY,P
  • (Ages 9-13) It’s the first day of seventh grade, and everything is going downhill for Lucy Sutcliffe. At school, she has the feeling her friends are all leaving her behind. At home, her single father is in a rut, and her perpetually traveling…
    Graphic Novel, 2021New York : First Second, 2021 — JGN LUCY
  • (Ages 10-14) Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is…
    Book, 2017New York : Scholastic Press, 2017 — J GRATZ,A
  • (Ages 8-12) After Nadia is separated from her family while fleeing the civil war, she spends the next four days with a mysterious old man who helps her navigate the checkpoints and snipers of the rebel, ISIS, and Syrian armies that are littering…
    Book, 2018New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2018] — J SENZAI,N
  • (Ages 8-13) When thirteen-year-old Arthur of Gal, the future King Arthur, accidentally time-travels to the twenty-first century, Sophie Sawyer, twelve, must convince him to return and correct the time line.
    Book, 2018Los Angeles : New York : Disney-Hyperion, 2018 — J MANCUSI,M
  • (Ages 7-12) Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.
    Picture Book, 2021New York : Salaam Reads, [2021] — JPB ALABED,B
  • (Ages 9-12) Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a…
    Book, 2021New York : Scholastic Press, 2021 — J GRATZ,A
  • (Ages 11-14) Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara's childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara's doorstep, it is worse than…
    Book, 2020Toronto ; Berkeley : Annick Press, [2020] — J SAEED,J
  • (Ages 10-14) Forced to leave his home in war-torn Syria, thirteen-year-old Ghalib makes an arduous journey with his family to a refugee camp in Turkey. Includes glossary.
    Book, 2018Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, 2018 — J MITCHELL,J