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Books for Kids and Tweens June 2025 |
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The green kingdom
by Cornelia Funke
Twelve-year-old Caspia hates big cities, especially New York. So, she isn't thrilled by the news that her parents are taking her to Brooklyn for the whole summer. But everything changes when Caspia discovers a bundle of letters, written by a blind girl many years ago. Each letter contains a 'green' riddle, with clues leading to a different plant. Caspia sets out to solve the riddles and, as she does, she meets friends she could never have imagined and finds, to her surprise, that sometimes you can put down roots where you least expect it.
Available on Cloud Library
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| El Niño by Pam Muñoz Ryan; illustrated by Joe CepedaTwo years ago, Kai’s sister Cali, a champion swimmer, disappeared in the Pacific Ocean. Now, grieving and struggling to live up to Cali’s legacy, eighth-grader Kai becomes obsessed with the legendary undersea queen Califia. As myth and reality collide, El Niño unleashes its fury, and Kai is swept up in a storm of events that will change his understanding of love, death, grief, and how best to honor those we’ve lost.
Available on Cloud Library
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A risky game
by Alyson Gerber
Weatherby and Jack are tapped to join Last Heir, the most powerful secret society of deception in the world, and on the night of the first gambit, the game takes a terrifying turn, pushing Jack and Weatherby to discover the truth about the game--and themselves.
Available on Cloud Library
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The playmakers
by Chad Morris
After being cut from the middle school basketball team, twelve-year-old Jax forms his own team with an unlikely group of students to prove themselves to the whole school.
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Old school
by Gordon Korman
Twelve-year-old Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was 6 years old, homeschooled by the residents until he's forced to attend middle school, where he sticks out like a sore thumb.
Available on Cloud Library
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The gate, the girl, and the dragon
by Grace Lin
Stone spirit Ji is stuck in the People's world, but with the help of his new friends Lulu and Worm, he hopes to find a way back home through the Old City Gate before it disappears forever.
Available on Cloud Library
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We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord
by Garth Nix
After a super-powerful alien orb possesses his smart little sister Eila, 12-year-old Kim and his friends will need all of their Dungeons & Dragons strategy skills to prevent terrifying worldwide consequences. Set in alternate-history Australia, this science fiction story will grab readers who prefer off-the-wall thrills.
Available on Cloud Library
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The empty place
by Olivia A. Cole
When 11-year-old Henry's father returns a year after getting lost in the forest bearing a strange necklace as a gift, she returns to the forest to find answers and discovers that the truth isn't always simple.
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Boy 2.0
by Tracey Baptiste
Landing in his latest foster home, Coal, suddenly able to turn invisible, searches for answers about who and what he is with the help of friends both old and new, but the truth is far stranger—and more dangerous—than he ever could have imagined.
Available on Cloud Library
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Cleo Porter and the body electric
by Jake Burt
Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they're safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. The trade-off? They're alone. Thus, when they receive a package clearly meant for someone else--a package containing a substance critical for a stranger's survival--Cleo is stuck.
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Sal & Gabi break the universe
by Carlos Alberto Hernandez
In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.
Available on Libby and Cloud Library
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Ace takes flight
by Cory McCarthy
A new cadet in the Biological Enhancement Systems Technology (B.E.S.T.) program who is determined to make his mark on the world, 11-year-old Ace Wells discovers that he is not ready when nothing goes as planned.
Available on Cloud Library
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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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