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Adventure Awaits: Kids' Fiction

Adventure awaits at your library this summer! Pick up one of these exciting stories to get in the summertime mood.

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  • Over the course of one unforgettable summer—filled with s’mores and swimming, adventure and fun, and even a decades-old mystery to solve—Ryanna will discover a whole new side of herself.
    Book, 2023New York City : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023.
  • Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
    Streaming Audiobook, 2021[United States] : Balzer + Bray, 2021.
  • Everybody starts somewhere, and once upon a time Luigi Lemoncello was a twelve-year-old boy in a large family who dreamed of being a showman; he gets his first chance working for a famous barker at a summer carnival where a mysterious puzzle leads…
    eBook, 2022New York : Random House Children's Books, 2022.
  • Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in his uncle's little New Jersey town. He has three new friends, and they love cooling off in the creek on hot summer days. But then comes shocking news: A massive shark has been attacking swimmers in the ocean…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2020.
  • When adventurous cousins Otto and Sheed Alston accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets between the unmoving seconds are not as much fun as they expected.
    Book, 2019Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019]
  • Jake Potter is back on Dewees Island for another summer with his beloved grandmother, and to cheer his dad and his friends up he decides they should try and find a special treasure box hidden somewhere nearby.
    Streaming Audiobook, 2022[New York] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2022.
  • The Penderwicks

    a Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

    Birdsall, Jeanne
    While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
    Book, 2005New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2005.
  • Eleven-year-old Willow doesn't want to go to her dad's weird old summer camp any more than she wants her family to move to the weird old town where that camp is located. But her family--and fate itself--seem to have plans of their own. Soon Willow…
    Downloadable Graphic Novel, 2022[United States] : Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, 2022.
  • Thirteen-year-old Sam Castine is at summer camp while his mother is in rehab, but when the camp is evacuated ahead of a fast moving wildfire, he makes the mistake of going back for his phone, and finds himself left behind, disoriented, and running…
    Book, 2019New York : Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2019.
  • Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something…
    Audiobook CD, 2022New York, NY : Harper Audio, [2022]
  • As almost thirteen-year-old Ben, a student at the CIA's academy for future intelligence agents, prepares to go to spy summer camp, he receives a death threat from the evil organization SPYDER.
    Book, 2013New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2013]
  • In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a…
    Book, 2010New York : Amistad, 2010.
  • Twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program's scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that's full of…
    Book, 2015New York : Beach Lane Books, [2015]