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Summer Adventures

Spooky lakes, camp rivalries, best friends, time travel, mythology, marathons, days at the beach, magic and great hair are all part of these worthy tales set in the summer.

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  • Gr. 4-6, Set in Santa Monica. Kai and her friends make a movie at the beach inspired by Filipino mythology. The project is part of a contest, and a ploy to keep Kai's grandfather from moving back to the Philippines.
    Book, 2020New York : Wendy Lamb Books, [2020]
  • Gr. 4-7, Three girls start a hair-braiding business at their summer camp to make money, while competing against a rival business that threatens their plans.
    Book, 2023New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2023
  • Gr. 5-8, Weight loss camp and vampires, what could be better? The main character Maggie battles fatphobia and the supernatural all while being fabulous.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024
  • Gr. 4-7, This novel told from multiple points of view follows a diverse cast of young people whose lives intersect in surprising and hilarious ways over the course of a summer day at the beach.
    Book, 2025New York : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2025
  • Gr. 4-6, A chilling ghost story that delves into the history of segregation.
    Book, 2022New York : Scholastic Press, 2022
  • Gr. 2-4, Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes.
    Book, 2016Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]
  • Audio version.
    eAudiobook, 2008Books on Tape, 2008
  • Gr. 5-8, Two seventh graders, Drew and Mia, spend their summer in Half Moon Bay, California, training for a half-marathon, and supporting each other as their families struggle with medical and financial problems.
    Book, 2023Atlanta : Peachtree, 2023
  • Gr. 4-6, Gonzalo Alberto García has never considered himself the hero of his own story. He's an observer, quietly snapshotting landscapes and drawing the creatures he imagines emerging from them. Forced to spend the summer with his estranged…
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Kokila, 2025
  • Gr. 3-7, Greg Heffley is caught in the middle as the two halves of his extended family come together in a sidesplittingly relatable summer story! When the Heffley's agree to spend summer break with both Mom's and Dad's relatives at the same time,…
    Book, 2024New York : Amulet Books, 2024
  • Audio version.
    Preloaded Audiobook, 2024Solon, OH : Playaway Products, 2024
  • Gr. 4-6, At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
    Book, 2016Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2016
  • Audio version.
    Preloaded Audiobook, 2016Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2016]
  • Gr. 5-8, My name is Julia. This is the story of the summer I almost lost my mum, and found a shark older than trees. Don't worry though, that doesn't spoil the ending.
    Book, 2023New York : Union Square Kids, 2023
  • Gr. 5-8. 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
  • Gr. 5 -8, California girl born and raised, Mai can’t wait to spend her vacation at the beach. Instead, she has to travel to Vietnam with her grandmother, who is going back to find out what really happened to her husband during the Vietnam War.
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, c2015
  • Audio version,
    Audiobook CD, 2015[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Harper Audio, [2015]