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Books for Kids and Tweens October 2025 |
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Lunar
by Chris Bradford
Luna loves living on the moon. She enjoys helping her father--a Moon Miner--on his search for precious minerals and rocks. But when a devastating meteor strike destroys their base, Luna is left stranded alone on the moon. With no shelter and few supplies, she must find a way to survive. The problem is--any hope of rescue is at least three days and 250,000 miles away . . . and her oxygen is running out fast!
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The memory spinner
by C. M. Cornwell
A young girl must choose between staying immersed in a magical past with her deceased mother, or saving those she loves most in the complicated, yet real present.
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The cursed catacombs
by Nick Eliopulos
In this interactive fantasy with elements of roleplaying, Seth is apprenticed to a demanding wizard, obsessed with his 'research' and the reader must use dice to assist Seth in his latest quest--escaping from a cursed catacomb
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Death by whoopee cushion
by Vicki Grant
Most kids would love it if their parents owned a joke store, but not twelve-year-old Manya. She loves science. But one day Manya comes back from her Serious Science class to see police in the store. A trick cigar bought at Pranks a Million blew up in a customer's face. Then there's a poisoning incident. And when a whoopee cushion explodes, things become very serious indeed: Manya's parents are arrested for murder. It's up to Manya to prove their innocence - and she may have to use some of the science behind the pranks to do so.
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Zed Moonstein makes a friend
by Lance Rubin
Zed Moonstein makes an A.I. best friend but realizes it might not be as cool - and may be more dangerous - than he imagined.
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| The Poisoned King by Katherine RundellEver since his first excursion, Christopher has been longing to return to the Archipelago, a hidden realm of mythological animals. So when he’s summoned by a dragon, Christopher is thrilled to follow it into a mystery involving a sphinx, a spreading poison, and a small girl bent on revenge. This exciting sequel will be most fun if you’ve already read Impossible Creatures.
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Graciela in the Abyss
by Meg Medina; illustrated by Anna and Elena Balbusso
One hundred years after falling to her death in the ocean, Graciela awakens as a sea spirit. Meanwhile, living boy Jorge accidentally delivers a ghost-killing harpoon to a vengeful villain. The quest to set things right on land and sea brings Graciela and Jorge together in this exciting and heartfelt fantasy.
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Dad rock dragon quest
by Joan Reardon
Chaperoned by their boring stepfather, twelve-year-old Zadie and her sister spend the summer with their rock-and-roll, park-ranger dad, rescuing his dragon companion from a magical animal poacher
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Sea dragons
by Jane Yolen
In 1900 Fife Cat Douglas is one of a team of children training to be monster hunters in hopes of ridding Scotland of the land monsters that plague it--the most dangerous of which are the dragons.
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Wishing day
by Lauren Myracle
An oldest child in a family steeped in magic makes three wishes according to a local tradition and wonders about the mother who disappeared years earlier, a first crush and her chaotic life with her sisters, aunts and grieving father.
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The horrible bag of terrible things
by Robert Renzetti
Eleven-year-old Zenith journeys into a bizarre, macabre world within a mysterious bag where he struggles to save his older sister from a living hairball and survive a trio of bloodthirsty mouths, a sentient sawdust-stuffed giant, and other horrors.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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County of SLO Public Libraries
995 PALM ST
SAN LUIS OBISPO, California 93403
805-781-5991 |
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