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Winter Reading Challenge Read a book set in a different world January 2025 |
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Picture Books and Beginning Readers
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Built to last
by Minh Lãe
"While building entire worlds out of blocks, cardboard and imagination, two kids wonder if they've reached their breaking point when their latest masterpiece comes tumbling down, until they realize they've built something far greater?—?a solid friendship with a strong foundation.
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Jo Bright and the Seven Bots
by Deborah Underwood
In this entertaining and empowering futuristic spin on Snow White, a bot-building princess, using wit, courage and some spare circuit boards, defeats the queen, befriends a dragon and builds a happy ending all her own.
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Sheepwrecked
by Ashley Belote
Readers can embark on a hilariously absurd high-seas adventure with Captain Hoof and his crew of sheep pirates, and their BIG emotions, as they, SHEEPWRECKED on a lost island, meet a long-lost pirate who calms their nerves and shows them what the best treasure is? FRIENDSHEEP!
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The most boring book ever
by Brandon Sanderson
As a young boy goes about his ordinary day, surprising adventure unfolds around him involving pirates, dragons and other unexpected perils, taking him by surprise, in this clever interplay between text and imaginative art. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Oona
by Kelly DiPucchio
Oona and her best friend Otto love to search for treasure but often find messy, tricky, and even shark-related trouble, instead.
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Ra Pu Zel and the stinky tofu
by Ying Chang Compestine
"A playful, feminist retelling of Rapunzel with a Chinese-cuisine twist. The story of Rapunzel where she's being locked in a tower by a witch is a good one-but it's not totally the truth. The real story is about a young princess in China named Ra Pu Zel who doesn't want to talk to princes or look proper. What Pu Zel wants is to cook and eat in peace, her long hair neatly braided to keep it out of her food. And when she gets tired of everyone telling her what to do, she locks herself in a tower with her dog Bao. Although princes from everywhere try to convince her to come down, it's not until a young chefarrives with an intriguing food to share that Ra Pu Zel finally has a reason"
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The last kids on Earth
by Scott Peterson
After the monster apocalypse happened, 13-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team so he can slay Blarg, an eerily intelligent monster, in a graphic novel version of the New York Times best-selling series.
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Puzzle House
by Peter Wartman
"Learning magic is no easy thing, even for young Claudia. Despite a bit of help from a book of spells created by Kpp'Ar, her father's former mentor, it's all she can do to keep things from blowing up in her face--often with spectacularly messy results. But a spell book isn't the only thing that Kpp'Ar left behind when he suddenly and mysteriously vanished. In his wake stands the Puzzle House, a bizarre tower full of magical traps, tricks, contraptions, and--what else--puzzles. Claudia is sure that the old mage left a gift for her and her brother, Soren, somewhere deep within its walls, and she is determined to find out exactly what it is. Can Claudia and Soren uncover all the mysteries hidden within the Puzzle House? Or will they discover a darkness thatwill change them forever?"
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The first cat in space ate pizza
by Mac Barnett
Something terrible is happening in the skies! Rats are eating the MOON! There's only ONE hero for the job, a bold and fearsome beast bioengineered in a secret lab to be the moon's savior and Earth's last hope! And that hero is... a cat. A cat who will be blasted into space! Accompanied by the imperious Moon Queen and LOZ 4000, a toenail clipping robot, the First Cat in Space journeys across a fantastic lunar landscape in a quest to save the world.
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Bully for you
by Paul Tobin
When Zomboss starts bullying everyone in town, Nate and Patrice find help from an unexpected source
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Misfit mansion
by Kay Davault
When a human boy breaks his foster home's sealing spell, monster girl Iris and her companions. are set free upon the town of Dead End Springs, where they search for a home in this new world of human friends, danger and dark secrets. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.
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DnDoggos
by Scout Underhill
"Pickles, a rough and tumble fighter; Tonka, a playful and fun-loving bard; and Zoey, a wise and caring cleric, are given a quest to fetch a magical dog collar from a nearby swamp. But when they triumphantly return, they soon find that the collar isn't the only thing that has gone missing from Tail's Bend. All the squeaky toys in town have disappeared and Squish, the mayor's young son, has set off on his own to find them"
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Silverwing
by Kenneth Oppel
In this graphic novel edition of a best-selling story, young silverwing bat Shade is blown off course during his colony's migration to Hibernaculum, during which he meets other winged loners on his journey back to his family, but with a long and dangerous flight ahead, he must figure out who he can trust.
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The secret library
by Kekla Magoon
"Finding a mysterious letter from her late Grandpa, Dally is led straight to a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time, and she must find the courage to write her own life story as she“checks out” adventure after adventure. Simultaneous eBook."
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The Mystwick School of Musicraft
by Jessica Khoury
Twelve-year-old Amelia gets the opportunity to attend a boarding school and learn how to use music to create magic, hoping to become a Maestro like her deceased mother
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A sky full of dragons
by Tiffany McDaniel
When her aunt is kidnapped by a stranger with a growling hat, 8-year-old Spella must go to Dragon's Knob, a school for wand witchery and wizardry, where a long-buried secret hidden somewhere in the school is linked to her aunt's disappearance.
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The wishing spell
by Chris Colfer
"Brought to life once again with stunning artwork, this 10th anniversary edition follows twins Alex and Conner as their beloved book of stories transports them to a magical world where they come face-to-face with fairy tale characters they grew up reading about.
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The gauntlet
by Karuna Riazi
Sucked into a mechanical board game and forced to defeat its diabolical architect in order to free themselves and others trapped with them, 12-year-old Farah and her two best friends receive assistance from a lizard guide and an aeronaut while battling fantastical beasts and solving difficult puzzles.
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Future hero
by Remi Blackwood
"Jarell has never quite known where he belongs. He's ignored at home and teased at school for wanting to draw instead of playing sports with the other boys. The only place he's ever felt truly at ease is his local barbershop where the owner hangs Jarell's art up on the walls. When Jarell discovers a hidden portal in the barbershop, he's transported to a magical world that's unlike anything he's seen before. But i's not just the powerful gods and dangerous creatures that makes this world different--it's that everyone believes Jarell is the hero they've been waiting for"
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