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All Together Now

Happy Summer Reading! The 2023 theme is All Together Now. Check out these books related to the theme on the topics of kindness, friendship, and unity. Don't forget to log your reading on Beanstack as part of our summer reading program to earn prizes and track your progress throughout the summer. WH 4/23

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  • When her band's drummer and fellow guitarist start dating, life gets awkward for eighth-grader Bina, a talented musician and songwriter, whose discomfort only multiplies when her best friend Austin develops a crush on her.
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2020]
  • Thirteen-year-old Bina faces her first summer without her best friend, Austin, who has left for soccer camp.
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York : Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2018.
  • Channel Kindness

    Stories of Kindness and Community

    One small act of kindness can change the world. Lady Gaga has always believed in the importance celebrating individuality, acting with empathy, and being kind to yourself and other. She and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, founded Born This Way…
    Book, 2020New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2020.
  • Make & Share Random Acts of Kindness

    Simple Crafts and Recipes to Give and Spread Joy

    Provost, Mique,
    The Random Acts of Kindness movement started in the 1980s. It is attributed to Anne Herbert, a peace activist who wrote a challenge on a restaurant place mat: Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Today the movement has spread…
    Book, 2015Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., [2015]
  • You're never too young to change the world! Discover 100 fun ideas to be kind and spread joy to the world around you. Get creative with your LEGO bricks and be inspired to care for others, yourself, and the planet. For example: Make a neighbor a…
    Book, 2020New York : DK Publishing, 2020.
  • Estranged from the best friend whose brother killed her sister in a school shooting, a grieving Cora receives a message on her twelfth birthday from her friend, asking for her help with creating a time portal to prevent the tragedy.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
  • When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2018]
  • Two girls find friendship-and more-when they bond over a traumatic event that took place in their middle school.
    Book, 2022New York : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
  • Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear…
    Book, 2012New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2012.
  • Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief.
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2016]
  • Look Both Ways

    a Tale Told in Ten Blocks

    Reynolds, Jason,
    A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school.
    Book, 2019New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2019.
  • Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is,…
    Book, 2016New York, New York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
  • Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and thirteen-year-old Max, an American boy, are bound by a secret that sets them on the adventure of a lifetime.
    Book, 2018New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2018.
  • Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school.
    Book, 2022New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2022]
  • Biracial sixth-grader Stephen questions the limitations society puts on him after he notices the way strangers treat him when he hangs out with his white friends and learns about the Black Lives Matter movement.
    Book, 2020New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2020]
  • There are unexpected consequences when thirteen-year-old Gracie sends texts pretending to be her bashful best friend, Sienna, and their friend Emmett starts texting back pretending to be shy A.J.
    Book, 2017New York : Viking, [2017]
  • Friendship to the max! At Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's camp for hardcore lady-types, things are not what they seem. Three-eyed foxes. Secret caves. Anagrams. Luckily, Jo, April, Mal, Molly and Ripley are five rad,…
    Graphic Novel, 2015Los Angeles, CA : BOOM! Box, 2015.
  • Danny Cheng, a Chinese-American teen, grapples with a dangerous revelation about his parents' past, his plans for the future, and his feelings for his best friend, Harry Wong.
    Book, 2018Los Angeles ; New York : Hyperion, 2018.
  • What if you could bring your best friend back to life--but only for a short time? Jamal's best friend, Q, doesn't know that he died, and that he's about to die again. He doesn't know that Jamal tried to save him. And that the reason they haven't…
    Book, 2020New York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
  • After a girl is killed by her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting, her two best friends attempt to memorialize her in a town economically dependent on the shooter's family.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, [2021]