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Winter Reading Challenge Read a book set in Chicago or Illinois January 2025 |
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Amira & Hamza: the war to save the worlds
by Samira Ahmed
When her little brother Hamza opens the forbidden Box of the Moon, 12-year-old Amira must journey to a mystical land to prevent the moon, the barrier between realms, from unleashing a nightmare on Earth.
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Maya and the rising dark
by Rena Barron
Struggling to understand why nobody else in her South Side Chicago neighborhood can see strange phenomena, 12-year-old Maya discovers that her missing father has been protecting a supernatural boundary between worlds.
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Treasure in the White City
by Dustin Brady
Legend says that an eccentric millionaire hid a treasure somewhere inside the legendary "White City" at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Elsa and Liam have reason to believe that treasure holds the key to finding Elsa's grandfather who disappeared mysteriously over a year ago. The kids decide to break out the duct tape and twist ties to reassemble the World's Worst Time Machine. They're on the hunt!
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Montgomery and the case of the golden key
by Tracy Occomy Crowder
In 2008 South Side Chicago, ten-year-old Montgomery "Monty" Carver's hunt to find the origins of a mysterious golden key leads him to discover the rich history of his community.
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Scritch scratch
by Lindsay Currie
Haunted after helping her father on his ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, twelve-year-old Claire must discover what the spectral boy from the bus wants before it is too late.
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The Ambrose deception
by Emily Ecton
Three Chicago students, Melissa, Wilf, and Bondi, are unlikely participants in a competition for a ten thousand-dollar scholarship, unaware that there is much more at stake.
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Etta Invincible
by Reese Eschmann
When Louisa May Alcott, the friendly dog across the street, disappears, Etta and the dog's boy, Eleazar, are swept up in a magical adventure where they must summon their courage to save Chicago from The Fear.
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Maya and the robot
by Eve L. Ewing
In desperate need of a friend—and a science project—Maya finds a robot named Ralph in Mr. Mac's convenience store, and once she gets him up and running, a new world of connection opens up.
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Roster rebound
by Jake Maddox
Since Nina's middle school in her new home in tiny Janesville, Illinois, does not have a girls basketball team, she tries out for the boys team and makes the roster--but the hostility of one the players threatens to disrupt the whole team.
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Jax Freeman and the phantom shriek
by Kwame Mbalia
Embroiled in all kinds of trouble at his new school, 12-year-old Jax Freeman discovers he isn't the first Freeman to be blamed for a tragedy he didn't create and resolves to clear his name and that of his great-grandfather by unlocking the secrets of a powerful Praise House.
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The first rule of punk
by Celia C. Pâerez
When her first day at a new school is overshadowed by a clash with a queen bee and her dress code violating punk-rock clothes, 12-year-old Malú listens to her faraway dad's advice and resolves to be herself by pursuing the interests she loves and standing up to an anti-punk administration.
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Doodleville
by Chad Sell
Creating a giant friendly monster character in her sketchbook after an inspiring if haphazard trip to the Art Institute of Chicago, Drew teams up with fellow artists to create comics that her monster character destroys whenever Drew starts to feel stress.
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Black Panther
by Ronald L. Smith
T'Challa is training to inherit Wakanda, a technologically-advanced African kingdom ruled by his father, when he is unexpectedly sent to a Chicago public school with his best friend where he encounters an ancient evil that he must destroy.
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