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 Summer ReadingAugust 2025 |
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Georgia O'Keeffe : she saw the world in a flower
by Gabrielle Balkan
Introduces children to the famous American painter Georgia O'Keeffe, revealing what led her to look closely at nature to create her iconic paintings of flowers and bones, and how her life and art inspires kids to create their own masterpieces.
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Fashion Design
by Leigh Anne Balzekas
Fashion design is a complex field with many skill sets needed. Start with the basics learned in this title and soon you'll be making clothes for you, your friends, and your family! This Makerspace title includes projects and a glossary of terms.
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How Do I Write Well?
by Louise Spilsbury
Learn amazing, word-busting, reader-wowing skills for life in this fun, friendly, and easy-to-follow guide. Full of great tips, tricks, and study-busting scoops, readers will be top of the class with this essential skill-building book.
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1-2-3 calligraphy! : letters and projects for beginners and beyond
by Eleanor Winters
A follow-up to Calligraphy for Kids offers a new guide to the art and techniques of calligraphy; furnishes instructions for writing all-new alphabets and new projects using italic, Gothic, uncial, and Roman alphabets; and includes projects that review fundamental skills, create decorative borders, design personalized stationery, and many more.
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Generation misfits
by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Starting a real school for the first time, 11-year-old Millie Nakakura makes friends with a band of misfits and fellow Japanese pop-music lovers, who all come together when one of their members is in need of support.
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The Pompeii disaster
by Dan Gutman
Sent back in time to 79 AD, on a mission to photograph the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Flashback Four race to get their picture.
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Clark the Shark friends forever
by Bruce Hale
When Clark the Shark disregards his best friend Joey Mackerel's advice about entering a drawing contest to meet his hero, Clark learns valuable lessons about friendship and putting others first when Joey's pet catfish dies.
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Fairest of them all
by Sarah Littman
The daughter of Sleeping Beauty becomes plagued by a curse of her own during a big design competition that forces her to rely on ancient advice in order to pursue her dreams despite the constraints of her overprotective family.
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Scroll
by Hui Li
After learning how to draw Chinese characters, Lulu and her dog Dumpling step into a magical world where the characters come to life.
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Young Adult (Teens) Books - Nonfiction
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Eat fresh food : awesome recipes for teen chefs
by Rozanne Gold
Full-color photographs, step-by-step instructions, and helpful cooking hints are compiled in this informative cookbook for teens that features an array of recipes for healthy, tasty meals, treats, and desserts.
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Creative crafts for teens : 25 empowering projects
by Jennifer Perkins
"This book of creative crafts for teens features 25 confidence-building crafts, for all genders, with themes that ignite creativity and empower teens, such as: vision boards, gratitude gifts, empowerment mirrors, and positive-message wearables."
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Young Adult (Teens) Books - Fiction
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Icarus
by K. Ancrum
A thief who steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries while targeting Mr. Black, the man responsible for his mother's death, Icarus Gallagher is torn between family loyalty, revenge, escape and Mr. Black's son - the boy he's come to love.
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Pet
by Akwaeke Emezi
A girl and her best friend confront difficult choices in the face of a home city in denial when they meet a being who exposes the community's willful disbelief about the existence of monsters. A first young adult novel by the award-winning authors of Freshwater.
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In limbo / : A Graphic Memoir
by Deb J. J. Lee
Set between New Jersey and Seoul, this coming-of-age story follows the author as she goes to South Korea, where she realizes something that changes her perspective on her family, her heritage and herself.
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Blood water paint
by Joy McCullough
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
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Punching the air
by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
A young artist and poet's prospects at a diverse art school are threatened by a racially biased system and a tragic altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood.
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The story of art without men
by Katy Hessel
"How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, this is the history of art as it's never been told before."
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Your brain on art : how the arts transform us
by Susan Magsamen
Combining breakthrough research, insights from multidisciplinary pioneers and real-life stories, this authoritative guide to the new science of neuroaesthetics shows how the arts, from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture and more, are essential for improving physical and mental health.
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Well worn : visible mending for the clothes you love
by Skye Pennant
Well Worn is a fresh and engaging clothing repair guide for anyone looking to explore visible mending to revitalize their wardrobe. Whether you are a stitching pro or have never picked up a needle and thread, this book will guide you every step of the way.
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Never meant to stay : a novel
by Trisha Das
Needing a place to stay in Delhi when her diplomat father is uprooted once again, wedding photographer Samara Mansingh moves in with the Khanna family, forever changing their lives and finally finding a place to call home.
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Pictures of you : a novel
by Emma Grey
"Evie Hudson should be grieving her dead husband, but since the car crash that claimed his life and landed her in the hospital, she can't remember him at all. The only person who can help her piece her past together is her high-school best friend Drew Kennedy. When snippets of her memory start falling into place, Evie wonders exactly how she ended up in a life that couldn't be further from the one she dreamed of. This time around, she's seeing all the things she missed--and the life she gets to choose...again."
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The keeper of lost things : a novel
by Ruth Hogan
Having collected a lifetime of lost objects in order to deal with the loss of his fiancâee, Anthony Peardew bequeaths his secret life's mission to his unsuspecting assistant, Laura, leaving her his house and all its lost treasures--and the responsibilityto return each one to its owner.
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The art forger : a novel
by Barbara A. Shapiro
An artist whose reputation has been tarnished stumbles on a piece of art that disappeared twenty-five years ago and agrees to forge it for a gallery owner, until she realizes that the art she is forging may itself be a forgery.
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The Griffin Sisters' greatest hits : a novel
by Jennifer Weiner
Cassie and Zoe Grossberg, former pop superstars as The Griffin Sisters, have been estranged for two decades since their band's rise and tragic fall, when Zoe's ambitious daughter Cherry sets out to uncover the hidden truths behind their breakup and heal their fractured family.
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