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

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• Imagine and Build Summer Adventure at AC Library

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  Build your own Summer Adventure at AC Library from June 1 to August 1. Complete activities, reading, and more to receive a book gift and prize drawing entries.

• Twelfth

  Key, Janet,

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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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swimming With Spies

  Lucyk-Berger, Chrystyna,

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  (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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cat Man of Aleppo

  Latham, Irene,

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  (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.

• Thornhill

  Smy, Pam,

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  (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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lucy in the Sky

  Brinkman, Kiara,

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  (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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Refugee

  Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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  (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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Escape From Aleppo

  Senzai, N. H.,

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  (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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Once and Future Geek

  Mancusi, Mari,

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  (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.

• My Name Is Bana

  Alabed, Bana, 2009-

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  (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.

• Ground Zero

  Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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  (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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yara's Spring

  Saeed, Jamal, 1959-

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  (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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Without Refuge

  Mitchell, Jane (Writer of books for young people),

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  (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.