If you want to read a thrilling adventure that involves geocaching, Hide and Seek by Katy Grant is the one to read! Chase likes to ride his bike and look for treasures with his GPS. He finds a cache one day that has a mysterious note in it from someone who needs help. Chase investigates and finds…
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The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
In The Crossover by Kwame Alexander, narrator Josh Bell delivers a dynamic play-by-play of the basketball season and his middle school turmoil through poems that evoke a hip-hop vibe while telling a heartfelt tale of basketball, brotherhood, and so much more. Josh is the only middle-schooler around who can dunk, his twin brother Jordan has a mean…
The Abominables by Eva Ibbotson
This is the delightful story of a young child who accompanies her father on trip in the Himalayas looking for rare and unknown plants. While there, young Lady Agatha is kidnapped by a large Yeti (abominable) because he needed someone to care for his young family. We learn all about these creatures and how they…
Eglantine: A Paranormal Adventure by Catherine Jinks
Allie (short for Alithea) is a girl in need of some good luck. She thought she was having good luck when her family moved into a bigger house complete with her own bedroom. But her luck abruptly changes when her brother, Bethan, now refuses to sleep in his own room due to the creepy writing that…
Cities: Discover How They Work by Kathleen M. Reilly
Do you know how to get water to the top of a building? Or why potholes occur? If you’ve ever wondered how cities work, or enjoy real life applications of science, technology, engineering, and math, you’ll probably like this book. It explains why cities came about and how and why they work the way they…
Ruby Goldberg’s Bright Idea by Anna Humphrey
Hey Scientists! Would you like a machine to do your chores for you? Ruby Goldberg is an inventor, and in Ruby Goldberg’s Bright Idea by Anna Humphrey, she likes to invent Rube Goldberg machines. Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist and an inventor of machines that had many steps to perform a simple task. When Ruby’s grandfather loses…
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
The London Eye is this big ferris wheel in London. Instead of seats, it has pods that a group of people ride around and you can see all of London from the top. Ted and Kat decide to take their cousin, Salim, on the London Eye before he leaves with his mom to live in…
Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Summer Vacation by Tommy Greenwald
If you don’t already know who Charlie Joe Jackson is, the first thing he’ll tell you is how much he hates to read and the lengths he has gone to in the past to avoid reading, including bribing his best friend with ice cream sandwiches to read books for him. So how did he end up…
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Thrills! As the USA and Soviet Union race to see who can build an atomic bomb first! Chills! As double agent scientists work for the USA, and give away secrets as spies to the Soviet Union! Surprises! As you learn of the many, many mistakes and accidents that occurred, costing many military men their lives…
