Summer Book List for Kids

Transcription

Summer Book List for Kids
Reading & Raspas
A Summer 2016 Reading List for Kids & Young Adults
Picture Books
Picture Books
The Best Place to Read
By: Bertram, Debbie; Bloom, Susan
A determined boy tries to find the
perfect place to curl up with his new
book in this hilarious and heartwarming
story.
Find it: Cloud Library
Boy and Bot
By: Dyckman, Ame
One day, a boy and a robot meet in the
woods. They play. They have fun.
But when Bot gets switched off, Boy
thinks he's sick. The usual remedies
—applesauce, reading a story—don't
help, so Boy tucks the sick Bot in, then
falls asleep...
Find it: Cloud Library
Duck & Goose Go to the Beach
By: Hills, Tad
In this delightful follow-up to the New
York Times bestselling Duck & Goose
and Duck, Duck, Goose, Duck wants to
go on an adventure.
Find it: Cloud Library
Dream Animals
A Bedtime Journey
By: Martin, Emily Winfield
Ideal for bed time reading, Dream
Animals convinces children to close their
eyes and discover who their dream
animal might be—and what dream it
might take them to.
Find it: Cloud Library
Flora and the Peacocks
By: Idle, Molly
Flora realizes that the push and pull
between three friends can be a delicate
dance.
Find it: Cloud Library
I Scream! Ice Cream!
A Book of Wordles
By: Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
This mind-bending book will have young
readers thinking about words in an
entirely new way!
Find it: Cloud Library
I Wish You More
By: Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
This sweet and uplifting book is perfect
for wishers of every age.
Find it: Cloud Library
Love You Forever
By: Munsch, Robert
"I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be."
Find it: Cloud Library
Memoirs of a Hamster
By: Scillian, Devin
When Pearl the cat tells Seymour of the
goodies beyond the safe confines of his
cage, he starts to think he's missing out.
And out is the new in! It's only after
Seymour is out of his cage that he
begins to fully appreciate his safe and
cozy home.
Find it: Cloud Library
BiblioTech Digital Library | www.bexarbibliotech.org | Copyright 2016
Not Me!
By: Gorbachev, Valeri
Chipmunk and Bear return in this
fun-filled story. Bear loves everything
about going to the beach—the sun,
the sand, the water, fish, etc.
Chipmunk does not like it at all.
Find it: Cloud Library
Penny & Jelly: Slumber Under the
Stars
By: Gianferrari, Maria
Penny is invited to a slumber-underthe-stars sleepover! But there's one
small detail that derails the dynamic
kid-dog duo: no pets allowed. Penny
and Jelly have to think quick—if the
real Jelly can't go, then maybe a
pretend Jelly can!
Find it: Cloud Library
Quackers
By: Wong, Liz
Quackers is a duck. Sure, he may
have paws and whiskers. And his
quacks might sound more like...well,
meows, but he lives among ducks,
everyone he knows is a duck, and
he's happy.
Then Quackers meets another duck
who looks like him (& talks like him,
too!)—but he calls himself a cat. So
silly!
Find it: Cloud Library
Sheep in a Jeep
By: Shaw, Nancy E.
Beep! Beep! Sheep in a jeep on a hill
that’s steep.
Find it: Cloud Library
Grades K-2
An Ambush of Tigers
A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns
By: R., Rosenthal, Betsy
Picture
This
fun-filled Books
romp through the animal
kingdom introduces collective nouns for
animals through wordplay. Clever
rhymes and humorous illustrations bring
these collective nouns to life in funny
ways, making it easy to remember which
terms and animals go together.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Book Itch
Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest
Bookstore
By: Micheaux, Nelson, Vaunda
In the 1930s, Lewis's dad, Lewis Michaux
Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch—a
book itch. How to scratch it? He started a
bookstore in Harlem and named it the
National Memorial African Bookstore.
Find it: Cloud Library
Detective Gordon: The First Case
By: Nilsson, Ulf
Someone's stealing nuts from the forest,
and it's up to Detective Gordon to catch
the thief! Unfortunately, solving this
crime means standing in the snow and
waiting for a long time.... If only he had
an assistant—someone small, fast, and
clever―to help solve this terrible case.
Find it: Cloud Library
Dory Fantasmagory
By: Hanlon, Abby
As the youngest in her family, Dory really
wants attention, and more than anything
she wants her brother and sister to play
with her. But she’s too much of a baby
for them, so she’s left to her own devices
—including her wild imagination and
untiring energy.
Find it: Cloud Library
Drum Dream Girl
How One Girl's Courage Changed
Music
By: Engle, Margarita
In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of
pounding tall congas and tapping small
bongós. She had to keep quiet. She had
to practice in secret. But when at last her
dream-bright music was heard, everyone
sang and danced and decided that both
girls and boys should be free to drum
and dream.
Find it: Cloud Library
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of
Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
By: Thompson, Laurie Ann
Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one
deformed leg, he was dismissed by most
people—but not by his mother, who
taught him to reach for his dreams. As a
boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more
than two miles each way, learned to play
soccer, left home at age thirteen to
provide for his family, and, eventually,
became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing
four hundred miles across Ghana in
2001, spreading his powerful message:
disability is not inability.
Find it: Cloud Library
I Pledge Allegiance
By: Mora, Pat; Martinez, Libby
Libby's great aunt, Lobo, is from Mexico,
but the United States has been her home
for many years, and she wants to
become a U.S. citizen...
Find it: Cloud Library
It's Raining!
By: Gibbons, Gail
What is rain? Why is it necessary? Where
does it come from? [The Author] takes
the reader through different
components of a storm, from the
smallest raindrop to the loudest claps of
thunder, and includes tips on how to stay
safe and dry.
Find it: Cloud Library
BiblioTech Digital Library | www.bexarbibliotech.org | Copyright 2016
Lillian's Right to Vote
A Celebration of the Voting Rights
Act of 1965
By: Winter, Jonah
Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old
African American woman, makes a
“long haul up a steep hill” to her
polling place, she sees more than
trees and sky—she sees her family’s
history.
Find it: Cloud Library
Lola Levine: Drama Queen
By: Brown, Monica
Seven-year-old Lola Levine is fierce
on the soccer field. She can do a
slide tackle (although she's not
supposed to) and even likes gooey
worms. Nothing scares Lola! That is,
until she is auditioning in front of
EVERYONE for her class play.
Find it: Cloud Library
Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs
By: Applegate, Katherine
If the kids can't sit still for the class
performance, Roscoe's teacher
could be in big trouble. Fortunately
Roscoe has a plan to save her—a
super, mega, gonzo plan! What
could go wrong?
Find it: Cloud Library
Real Sisters Pretend
By: Lambert, Megan Dowd
This warm, engaging story, which
unfolds entirely through the
conversation of two adopted sisters,
was inspired by the author's own
daughters, whom she overheard
talking about how adoption made
them real sisters even though they
have different birth parents and do
not look alike.
Find it: Cloud Library
Grades 3-5
Absolutely Almost
By: Graff, Lisa
lbie has never been the smartest kid in
his class. He has never been the tallest.
Or the best at gym. Or the greatest
artist. Or the most musical. In fact, Albie
has a long list of the things he's not very
good at. But then Albie gets a new
babysitter, Calista, who helps him figure
out all of the things he is good at and
how he can take pride in himself.
Find it: Cloud Library
Adventures with Waffles
By: Parr, Maria
The warmth of friendship and the
support of family suffuse this lightly
illustrated novel, proving that when
times are tough, a little taste of
sweetness can make all the difference.
Find it: Cloud Library
All Four Stars
By: Dairman, Tara
Gladys Gatsby has been cooking
gourmet dishes since the age of seven,
only her fast-food-loving parents have
no idea! Now she’s eleven, and after a
crème brûlée accident (just a small fire),
Gladys is cut off from the kitchen (and
her allowance). She’s devastated but
soon finds just the right opportunity to
pay her parents back when she’s
mistakenly contacted to write a
restaurant review for one of the largest
newspapers in the world.
Find it: Cloud Library
EllRay Jakes The Recess King!
By: Warner, Sally
Eight-year-old EllRay is down to
one-and-a-half best friends, and his little
sister points out the obvious: he needs
more! So EllRay decides to audition
other boys for the part, the way his
sister is auditioning for the lead role in
her day care’s spring play. Now, EllRay...
has to come up with fun things to do at
recess, because when he’s the Recess King,
everyone will want to be his friend!
Find it: Cloud Library
Fish in a Tree
By: Mullaly Hunt, Lynda
“Everybody is smart in different ways. But if
you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its life believing it is stupid.”
Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of
smart people. Every time she lands in a
new school, she is able to hide her inability
to read by creating clever yet disruptive
distractions...
Find it: Cloud Library
The Flying Machine Book
Build and Launch 35 Rockets, Gliders,
Helicopters, Boomerangs, and More
By: Mercer, Bobby
Calling all future Amelia Earharts and Chuck
Yeagers—there’s more than one way to get
off the ground. Author and physics teacher
Bobby Mercer will show readers 35
easy-to-build and fun-to-fly contraptions
that can be used indoors or out.
Find it: Cloud Library
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter
Motor
Book One
By: Scieszka, Jon
Frank Einstein loves figuring out how the
world works by creating household
contraptions that are part science, part
imagination, and definitely unusual.
Find it: Cloud Library
Gabby Duran and the Unsittables
By: Allen, Elise; Conners, Daryle
It's a school day on Planet Earth, Gabby's
audition for the solo part in the band is
tonight, and this tiny alien is a bit more
than meets the eye. Can Gabby Duran,
Associate 4118-25125A, First Sitter to the
Unsittables, keep her otherworldly charge
safe in the unpredictable halls of middleschool and keep A.L.I.E.N hidden?
Find it: Cloud Library
BiblioTech Digital Library | www.bexarbibliotech.org | Copyright 2016
Guinea Dog
By: Patrick, Jennings
Rufus's dad thinks dogs are a problem,
he won't know what hit him when he
meets the guinea pig that thinks she's a
dog. She barks. She bites. She'll eat your
homework.
Find it: Cloud Library
Nerd Camp
By: Weissman, Elissa Brent
Pack your sleeping bag, grab your
calculator, and celebrate geekdom with
this humorous and empowering middle
grade novel by the acclaimed author of
Standing for Socks. Nerd Camp, here we
come!
Find it: Cloud Library
The War that Saved My Life
By: Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Nine-year-old Ada has never left her
one-room apartment. Her mother is too
humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let
her outside. So when her little brother
Jamie is shipped out of London to
escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a
minute—she sneaks out to join him...
Find it: Cloud Library
Who Was Betsy Ross?
By: Buckley, James
Did she sew the first flag? That’s up for
debate, but Who Was Betsy Ross? tells
the story of a fierce patriot who certainly
helped create the flag of a new nation.
Find it: Cloud Library
You Can Fly
The Tuskegee Airmen
By: Weatherford, Carole Boston
Award-winning author Carole Boston
Weatherford’s innovative history in
verse celebrates the story of the
Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering AfricanAmerican pilots who triumphed in the
skies and past the color barrier.
Find it: Cloud Library
Grades 6-8
Beetle Boy
By: Leonard, M.G.
Darkus Cuttle's dad mysteriously goes
missing from his job as Director of
Science at the Natural History Museum.
Vanished without a trace! From a locked
room! So Darkus moves in with his
eccentric Uncle Max and next door to
Humphrey and Pickering, two lunatic
cousins with an enormous beetle
infestation. And that's just the beginning
of the story...
Find it: Cloud Library
The Bitter Side of Sweet
By: Sullivan, Tara
Amadou and his brother, Seydou, are
modern-day child slaves on a cacao
plantation, until Khadija arrives. The three
band to make their escape from the
Ivory Coast to freedom.
Find it: Cloud Library
Booked
By: Alexander, Kwame
In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning
novel THE CROSSOVER, soccer, family,
love, and friendship, take center stage as
twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of
words as he wrestles with problems at
home, stands up to a bully, and tries to
impress the girl of his dreams.
Find it: Cloud Library
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior
An Unofficial Minecraft Adventure
By: Cube Kid
Runt, our 12-year-old hero, is about to
choose his future vocation at the
Minecraftia school. His options are less
than thrilling: farmer, crafter, miner. But
what this noob really wants is to be a
warrior like his hero, Steve. So when he
learns that the five best students in school
that year will get the chance to start
warrior training, it’s ON.
Find it: Cloud Library
Grounded: The Adventures of
Rapunzel (Tyme #1)
By: Morrison, Megan
Driven by anger at Jack (Beanstalker)
and her own nameless fears, Rapunzel
descends to the ground for the first
time, and finds a world filled with more
peril than Witch promised ... and more
beauty, wonder, and adventure than she
could have dreamed.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Iron Trial (Book One of
Magisterium)
By: Black, Holly; Clare, Cassandra
Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail.
All his life, Call has been warned by his
father to stay away from magic. If he
succeeds at the Iron Trial and is
admitted into the Magisterium, he is
sure it can only mean bad things for
him. So he tries his best to do his worst and fails at failing...
Find it: Cloud Library
Jack Strong Takes a Stand
By: Greenwald, Tommy
Jack Strong just wants to be a regular
kid. But his parents have overscheduled
his week with every extracurricular
activity under the sun. And so, he stages
a sit-in on his couch and refuses to get
up until his parents let him quit some of
the extracurriculars.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Misadventures of Max Crumbly
By: Russell, Rachel Renée
Max Crumbly is about to face the
scariest place he’s ever been: South
Ridge Middle School.
If only Max could be like the hero in his
favorite comics. Unfortunately, Max’s
uncanny, almost superhuman ability to
smell pizza from a block away won’t
exactly save any lives or foil bad guys.
But that doesn’t mean Max won’t do his
best to be the hero his school needs!
Find it: Cloud Library
BiblioTech Digital Library | www.bexarbibliotech.org | Copyright 2016
Sugar
By: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River
Road sugar plantation along the banks of
the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but
laboring in the fields all day doesn't make
her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a
knack for finding her own fun, especially
when she joins forces with forbidden
friend Billy, the white plantation owner's
son.
Find it: Cloud Library
Tesla's Attic
By: Shusterman, Neal; Elfman, Eric
After their home burns down, fourteenyear-old Nick, his younger brother, and
their father move into a ramshackle
Victorian house they've inherited. When
Nick opens the door to his attic room,
he's hit in the head by a toaster. That's
just the beginning of his weird
experiences with the old junk stored up
there...
Find it: Cloud Library
The Underdogs
By: Hammel, Sara
Who killed Annabel Harper?When a
popular teen beauty’s body is discovered
by the pool at an elite tennis club, the
regulars are shocked—especially twelveyear-old Evie and her best friend,
Chelsea. While everyone else is haunted
by the teen’s death, Evie and Chelsea
jump on the case, dogging the footsteps
of the lead detective as he investigates.
Find it: Cloud Library
When Friendship Followed Me Home
By: Griffin, Paul
Ben Coffin has never been one for
making friends. As a former foster kid, he
knows people can up and leave without
so much as a goodbye. Ben prefers to
spend his time with the characters in his
favorite sci-fi books…until he rescues an
abandoned mutt from the ally next-door
to the Coney Island Library.
Find it: Cloud Library
Grades 6-8
Beetle Boy
By: Leonard, M.G.
Darkus Cuttle's dad mysteriously goes
missing from his job as Director of
Science at the Natural History Museum.
Vanished without a trace! From a locked
room! So Darkus moves in with his
eccentric Uncle Max and next door to
Humphrey and Pickering, two lunatic
cousins with an enormous beetle
infestation. And that's just the beginning
of the story...
Find it: Cloud Library
The Bitter Side of Sweet
By: Sullivan, Tara
Amadou and his brother, Seydou, are
modern-day child slaves on a cacao
plantation, until Khadija arrives. The three
band to make their escape from the
Ivory Coast to freedom.
Find it: Cloud Library
Booked
By: Alexander, Kwame
In this follow-up to the Newbery-winning
novel THE CROSSOVER, soccer, family,
love, and friendship, take center stage as
twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of
words as he wrestles with problems at
home, stands up to a bully, and tries to
impress the girl of his dreams.
Find it: Cloud Library
Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior
An Unofficial Minecraft Adventure
By: Cube Kid
Runt, our 12-year-old hero, is about to
choose his future vocation at the
Minecraftia school. His options are less
than thrilling: farmer, crafter, miner. But
what this noob really wants is to be a
warrior like his hero, Steve. So when he
learns that the five best students in school
that year will get the chance to start
warrior training, it’s ON.
Find it: Cloud Library
Grounded: The Adventures of
Rapunzel (Tyme #1)
By: Morrison, Megan
Driven by anger at Jack (Beanstalker)
and her own nameless fears, Rapunzel
descends to the ground for the first
time, and finds a world filled with more
peril than Witch promised ... and more
beauty, wonder, and adventure than she
could have dreamed.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Iron Trial (Book One of
Magisterium)
By: Black, Holly; Clare, Cassandra
Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail.
All his life, Call has been warned by his
father to stay away from magic. If he
succeeds at the Iron Trial and is
admitted into the Magisterium, he is
sure it can only mean bad things for
him. So he tries his best to do his worst and fails at failing...
Find it: Cloud Library
Jack Strong Takes a Stand
By: Greenwald, Tommy
Jack Strong just wants to be a regular
kid. But his parents have overscheduled
his week with every extracurricular
activity under the sun. And so, he stages
a sit-in on his couch and refuses to get
up until his parents let him quit some of
the extracurriculars.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Misadventures of Max Crumbly
By: Russell, Rachel Renée
Max Crumbly is about to face the
scariest place he’s ever been: South
Ridge Middle School.
If only Max could be like the hero in his
favorite comics. Unfortunately, Max’s
uncanny, almost superhuman ability to
smell pizza from a block away won’t
exactly save any lives or foil bad guys.
But that doesn’t mean Max won’t do his
best to be the hero his school needs!
Find it: Cloud Library
BiblioTech Digital Library | www.bexarbibliotech.org | Copyright 2016
Sugar
By: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River
Road sugar plantation along the banks of
the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but
laboring in the fields all day doesn't make
her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a
knack for finding her own fun, especially
when she joins forces with forbidden
friend Billy, the white plantation owner's
son.
Find it: Cloud Library
Tesla's Attic
By: Shusterman, Neal; Elfman, Eric
After their home burns down, fourteenyear-old Nick, his younger brother, and
their father move into a ramshackle
Victorian house they've inherited. When
Nick opens the door to his attic room,
he's hit in the head by a toaster. That's
just the beginning of his weird
experiences with the old junk stored up
there...
Find it: Cloud Library
The Underdogs
By: Hammel, Sara
Who killed Annabel Harper?When a
popular teen beauty’s body is discovered
by the pool at an elite tennis club, the
regulars are shocked—especially twelveyear-old Evie and her best friend,
Chelsea. While everyone else is haunted
by the teen’s death, Evie and Chelsea
jump on the case, dogging the footsteps
of the lead detective as he investigates.
Find it: Cloud Library
When Friendship Followed Me Home
By: Griffin, Paul
Ben Coffin has never been one for
making friends. As a former foster kid, he
knows people can up and leave without
so much as a goodbye. Ben prefers to
spend his time with the characters in his
favorite sci-fi books…until he rescues an
abandoned mutt from the ally next-door
to the Coney Island Library.
Find it: Cloud Library
Grades 9-12 (Young Adult)
Anna and the Swallow Man
By: Savit, Gavriel
He is a mystery, strange and tall, a skilled
deceiver with more than a little magic up his
sleeve. And when the soldiers in the streets
look at him, they see what he wants them to
see....
Find it: Cloud Library
Archivist Wasp
By: Kornher-Stace, Nicole
Wasp is a ghost-hunter in a strange and
brutal world, who must kill to keep her job.
When the ghost of a soldier from the distant
past asks for her help, she embarks on a
dangerous journey that makes her question
everything she knows.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Bunker Diary
By: Kevin, Brooks
Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems is kidnapped
and transported to an underground bunker,
where he is joined by five other kidnapping
victims. Where are they? Why have they
been taken? And can they survive?
Find it: Cloud Library
Calvin
By: Leavitt, Martine
As a child, Calvin played with the toy
Hobbes. Now Calvin is a schizophrenic
teenager, and Hobbes is back—a delusion
he can’t control. If he can convince Bill
Watterson to draw one final Calvin &
Hobbes comic strip with a normal teenaged
Calvin, will he be cured?
Find it: Cloud Library
Carry On
By: Rowell, Rainbow
Simon Snow may be the chosen one, but he
would prefer to just enjoy his last year at the
Watford School of Magicks and figure out
why his roommate and nemesis, Baz, is
missing.
Find it: Cloud Library
Dumplin'
By: Murphy, Julie
Willowdean is the heavyset daughter of
a former beauty queen, a Dolly Parton
enthusiast, and small town Texas girl.
While dealing with feelings for a
coworker, she and her fellow outcasts
decide to enter the beauty pageant run
by Willowdean’s mother.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
By: Ness, Patrick
With prom and graduation weeks
away, Mikey and his friends just
want to enjoy their final days
together, but another story is
unfolding, one that involves their
classmates, a mysterious blue light,
and the end of the world.
Find it: Cloud Library
Eden West
By: Hautman, Pete
Jacob, a member of the Grace, starts
questioning his deeply held faith when
he meets Lynna, a girl from the World,
and Tobias, a new member of the Grace.
Find it: Cloud Library
Saint Anything
By: Dessen, Sarah
After a drunk-driving accident that
crippled a boy, Peyton’s serving
some serious jail time, and Sydney is
on her own, questioning her place in
the family and the world.
Find it: Cloud Library
Everything, Everything
By: Yoon, Nicola
Maddy has SCID, which makes her
allergic to the world, and she has not left
her house since she was a baby. Now
18, she falls in love with the boy next
door and is willing to risk everything to
be with him.
Find it: Cloud Library
Orbiting Jupiter
By: Schmidt, Gary D.
The story of Joseph, a father at thirteen,
who has never seen his daughter,
Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile
facility, he’s placed with a foster family
on a farm in rural Maine. In this riveting
novel, two boys discover the true
meaning of family and the sacrifices it
requires.
Find it: Cloud Library
Paper Valentine
By: Yovanoff, Brenna
The city of Ludlow is gripped by the
hottest July on record. The asphalt is
melting, the birds are dying, petty crime
is on the rise, and someone in Hannah
Wagnor’s peaceful suburban community
is killing girls.
Find it: Cloud Library
BiblioTech Digital Library | www.bexarbibliotech.org | Copyright 2016
Shadowshaper
By: Older, Daniel José
Sierra Santiago was amped on her
summer of painting murals and
hanging with friends, before noticing
the murals were fading faster than
normal. Another street artist named
Robbie is the only one who can help
her to unlock this mystery.
Find it: Cloud Library
Wolf by Wolf
By: Graudin, Ryan
In a world where the Axis powers
won the war, Yael uses a unique
ability to compete against 19 other
teenagers in a motorcycle race from
Germany to Japan.
Find it: Cloud Library
X: A Novel
By: Shabazz, Ilyasah; Magoon,
Kekla
This fictionalized account of Malcolm
X’s teen years poignantly presents
the young man’s struggles with
identity, racism, and crime.
Find it: Cloud Library
Para Niños en Español
El atlas esmeralda
Los libros del comienzo (1)
By: Stephens, John
En su pequeña familia de tres huérfanos, Kate
es la mayor y más responsable. A sus 14 años
es la única que recuerda a sus padres,
especialmente las últimas palabras de su madre
pidiéndole que cuidará de sus hermanos.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Don Quijote de la Mancha (Alfaguara
Clásicos)
By: Gimenez-Frotin, Jose L.
Esta cuidada versión, sintetizada por José Luis
Giménez-Frontín y que conmemora el 400
aniversario de su publicación, nos da todas las
claves de la obra, demostrándonos que es una
novela extremadamente divertida. Clásicos
inolvidables para disfrutar, compartir y dejar
volar la imaginación.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
La guerra de la limonada
By: Davies, Jacqueline
Evan Treski es un estudiante de cuarto grado
que sabe tratar con la gente. Puede hablar muy
bien con todos, incluso con los adultos. Por otro
lado, Jessie , su hermana menor que también
está en cuarto grado, es muy inteligente con las
matemáticas pero le cuesta entender a las
personas. Ella sabe que no demuestra
sentimientos. Entonces, cuando comienza la
guerra de limonada, no se sabe quién ganará, y
mucho menos si la guerra terminará.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Harry Potter y la cámara secreta
By: Rowling, J.K.
Mientras Harry espera impaciente en casa de
sus insoportables tíos el inicio del segundo
curso del Colegio Hogwarts de Magia y
Hechicería, un elfo aparece en su habitación y le
advierte de que una amenaza mortal se cierne
sobre la escuela.
El hogar de Miss Peregrine para niños
peculiares
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
El hogar de Miss Peregrine para niños
peculiares
By: Riggs, Ransom
De niño, Jacob creó un vinculo muy
especial con su abuelo, que le contaba
extrañas historias y le enseñaba
fotografías de niñas levitando y niños
invisibles. Ahora, siguiendo la pista de una
misteriosa carta, emprende un viaje hacia
la isla remota de Gales en la que su abuelo
se crió. Allí, encuentra vivos a los niños y
niñas de las...fotografías aunque los
lugareños afi rmen que murieron hace
muchos años.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
La ladrona de libros
By: Zusak, Markus
Érase una vez un mundo donde las noches
eran largas y la Muerte contaba su propia
historia. Érase una vez una ladrona que
robaba libros y regalaba palabras.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Max viaja a la luna
Una aventura de ciencias con el perro
Max
By: Bennett, Jeffrey
El perro Max y una joven llamada Tori
emprenden el primer viaje a la luna desde
la época del programa Apolo, y su viaje
resulta ser tan inspirador para los
habitantes de la Tierra que todas las
naciones trabajan juntas para construir
una colonia en la luna.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
El Mundo de Acuerdo a Humphrey
By: Birney, Betty G.
Usted puede aprender mucho sobre la
vida mediante la observación de otra
especie . Eso es lo que Humphrey se dijo
cuando era primera brought a la
habitación 26. Y el muchacho, ¿es verdad !
Además de sus aventuras en el aula , cada
fin de semana este increíble hámster llega
a dormir de nuevo con un estudiante
diferente, como Baja -Su -Voz - A. J . y
Hablan- Up- Sayeh
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
BiblioTech Digital Library | www.bexarbibliotech.org | Copyright 2016
Nacer Bailando (Dancing Home)
By: Ada, Alma Flor; Zubizarreta,
Gabriel M.
Un año de revelaciones culmina con
una actuación llena de sorpresas,
mientras dos niñas descubren su
lugar en el mundo.
México es el país de sus padres,
pero no el de Margie. Ella ha logrado
convencer a sus compañeros de
escuela que es cien por ciento
estadounidense, igual que ellos.
Pero cuando Lupe, su prima
mexicana, va a vivir a su casa, la
imagen de sí misma que había
creado se deshace.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
El pequeño (y algo chiflado) Frank
Einstein (Frank Einstein 1)
By: Scieszka, Jon
Frank Einstein está chiflado... Tanto
que ¡mira lo que ha inventado esta
vez! Un día, mientras Frank hacía un
experimento un poco rarito, un rayo
cayó sobre su laboratorio y dio vida
a su último invento: ¡los robots Klink
y Klank!
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
La pirámide roja
Las crónicas de Kane, libro I
By: Riordan, Rick
Todo empezó en Londres, la noche
en que nuestro padre hizo explotar
el Museo Británico con un extraño
conjuro. Fue entonces cuando nos
enteramos de que, además de un
reconocido arqueólogo, era una
especie de mago del Anti​
guo Egipto.
Rodeado de valiosas antigüedades,
empezó a entonar extrañas
palabras. Algo debió de salir mal
porque la sala quedó reducida a
escombros; Set, el dios del caos,
apareció de la nada envuelto en
llamas y a nuestro padre se lo tragó
la tierra…
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Kids Magazines
Grades K-2
Ask
Each themed issue of ASK
invites newly independent
readers to explore the world of
science and ideas with topics
that really appeal to kids: What
makes wind? Where do colors
come from? Were pirates real?
Filled with lively, well-written
articles, vivid graphics,
activities, cartoons, and plenty
of humor. Grades 3-5.
Find it: Zinio
Highlights
The experts at Highlights know
how to keep kids motivated
while they learn. Filled with
fiction, nonfiction, Hidden
Pictures®, skill-building
puzzles, science experiments
and more, this digital version
of Highlights magazine
strengthens reading abilities,
promotes creativity, sharpens
thinking skills, and helps build
confidence. Ages 6-12.
Find it: Zinio
Faces
In an increasingly global and
multicultural world, FACES
helps kids understand how
people in other countries live.
Each issue focuses on a
different culture – from
Vietnam to Egypt to Haiti –
including stories about daily
life, folk tales, and engaging
articles about history and
traditions of the people and
their culture. Grades 5-9.
Find it: Zinio
Ladybug
Each issue offers a mix of
enchanting stories at
appropriate reading levels,
with colorful illustrations that
draw children into the text.
Ear-pleasing poems, lively
songs, and a removable
4-page craft insert round out
this delightful reading
experience. Pre-K-Grade 1.
Find it: Zinio
High Five Bilingue
Inspire learning in two
languages! The engaging
stories, poems, puzzles and
activities are perfect for
young children — and for
parents — who are learning
to speak and read in Spanish
and English. Ages 2-6.
Find it: Zinio
Muse
Kids who can't help wondering
whether video games really kill
their brain cells, or what a
gentleman ladybug is called,
will find the answers here, in
articles written by awardwinning authors and
accompanied by high-quality
illustration and photography.
MUSE is perfect for any kid
interested in science, history,
and the arts. Grades 5-9.
Find it: Zinio
BiblioTech Digital Library | www.bexarbibliotech.org | Copyright 2016
Family "Read-Together" Series
Books of Ember Series
4 Books
By: Duprau, Jeanne
The four Books of Ember tell the story of
a city where it’s always dark. There’s no
sun, no moon, no light at all unless the
electricity is on. And the electricity is
beginning to fail.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Chronicles of Narnia
7 Books
By: Lewis, C.S.
"Narnia . . . a land frozen in eternal
winter . . . a country waiting to be set
free. Four adventurers step through a
wardrobe door and into the land of
Narnia, a land enslaved by the power of
the White Witch...."
Find it: Cloud Library
Harry Potter Series
7 Books
By: Rowling, J.K.
"Harry Potter has never even heard of
Hogwarts when the letters start dropping
on the doormat at number four, Privet
Drive..."
Find it: Cloud Library
Judy Moody
12 Books
By: McDonald, Megan
Follow the adventures of Judy Moody, a
feisty third grader famous for her
ever-changing moods.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Little House Books
9 Books
By: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Inspired by Laura’s own childhood, these
books offer a unique glimpse into
America’s frontier history.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Magic Treehouse Series
28 Books
By: Osborne, Mary Pope
Jack and Annie go on numerous
adventures and missions with a magical
tree house.
Find it: Cloud Library
Mysterious Benedict Society Series
3 Books
By: Stewart, Trenton Lee
Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as
Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance
embark on a daring new adventure that
threatens to force them apart from their
families, friends, and even each other.
Find it: Cloud Library
Oz Books
14 Books
By: Baum, L. Frank
In the first book, The Wonderful Wizard of
Oz, a Kansas farm girl is transported to a
magical land.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Penderwicks
4 Books
By: Birdsall, Jeanne
This irresistible series of modern classics
tells the story of the Penderwicks, a family
that believes in truth and honor, yet can’t
seem to stay out of trouble.
Find it: Cloud Library
BiblioTech Digital Library | www.bexarbibliotech.org | Copyright 2016
The Percy Jackson Series
5 Books
By: Riordan, Rick
The first book in the series, The
Lightening Thief begins with twelveyear-old Percy Jackson is on the most
dangerous quest of his life. With the help
of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy
must journey across the United States to
catch a thief who has stolen the original
weapon of mass destruction — Zeus’
master bolt.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Ramona Books
8 Books
By: Cleary, Beverly
Newbery Medal winner Beverly Cleary
delivers a humorous tale of the ups and
downs of sisterhood. Both the younger
and older siblings of the family will enjoy
this book.
Find it: Cloud Library
A Series of Unfortunate Events
13 Books
By: Snicket, Lemony
A slightly spookier adventure series
geared towards older children. Despite
the "unfortunate events," the readers end
up seeing how fortunate the kids really
are.
Find it: Cloud Library
Time Quintet
5 Books
By: L'Engle, Madeleine
"It was a dark and stormy night; Meg
Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace,
and her mother had come down to the
kitchen for a midnight snack when they
were upset by the arrival of a most
disturbing stranger...."
Find it: Cloud Library
*We encourage parents to preview these books
before reading them with young children.
K-12: Coming Soon!
Grades
Harry Potter and the
Cursed Child (play)
K-2 By: Rowling, J.K.; Tiffany,
John;
Thorne, Jack
Published Date: 07/30/2016
Grade Level: 4-12
The eighth story, nineteen
years later.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Land of Stories: An
Author's Odyssey
By: Colfer, Chris
Published Date: 07/11/2016
Grade Level: 3 - 7
In the highly anticipated
continuation of the Land of
Stories series, Conner learns
that the only place to fight
the Masked Man's literary
army is inside his own short
stories!
Find in: Cloud Library
The Crimson Skew
By: Grove, S. E.
Published Date: 07/11/2016
Grade Level: 5-12
The Crimson Skew is the
thrilling final act of S. E.
Grove’s acclaimed
Mapmakers Trilogy—three
unforgettable books set in a
world like no other.
Find in: Cloud Library
BiblioTech Digital Library | www.bexarbibliotech.org | Copyright 2016
Darkstalker (Wings of Fire:
Legends)
Street Date: 06/27/2016
By: Sutherland, Tui T.
Published Date: 06/27/2016
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Three dragons. One
unavoidable, unpredictable
destiny. This is the beginning...
of the end.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Soggy, Foggy Campout #8
By: Winkler, Henry; Oliver, Lin
Published Date: 07/04/2016
Grade Level: 1 - 3
"We Love Nature Day" is fast
approaching, and everyone in
Hank's class gets to write and
perform a poem. One problem:
Hank has no idea where to start.
Luckily his mom has a great
idea—the family will go camping.
Find it: Cloud Library
Treasure Hunters: Peril at the
Top of the World
By: Patterson, James;
Grabenstein, Chris
Published Date: 07/03/2016
Grade Level: 3 - 7
After their adventures in China
and Germany, the Kidd family is
ready for some rest and
relaxation. But when you're an
ace treasure hunting team,
there's always another
adventure waiting around the
corner!
Find it: Cloud Library
Reading & Raspas
A Summer 2016 Reading List for Adults
YA Books for Adults
Being Jazz
My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
By: Jennings, Jazz
Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and
most prominent voices in the
national discussion about gender
identity. At the age of five, Jazz
transitioned to life as a girl, with the
support of her parents. A year later, her
parents allowed her to share her
incredible journey in her first Barbara
Walters interview, aired at a time when
the public was much less knowledgeable
or accepting of the transgender
community.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Crown
By: Cass, Kiera
The Selection series has captured the
hearts of readers from its very first page.
Now the end of the journey is here.
Prepare to be swept off your feet by The
Crown—the eagerly awaited, wonderfully
romantic fifth and final book in the
Selection series
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Everything, Everything
By: Yoon, Nicola
Maddy has SCID, which makes her
allergic to the world, and she has not left
her house since she was a baby. Now 18,
she falls in love with the boy next door
and is willing to risk everything to be with
him.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Girl from Everywhere
By: Heilig, Heidi
Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the
globe and through centuries aboard her timetraveling father's ship. But when he gambles
with her very existence, it all may be about to
end.
Find it: Cloud Library
Lotus and Thorn
By: Etienne, Sara Wilson
While in exile, Leica discovers a mysterious
shuttle, which may not only lead her home,
but even more impossible—reestablish
contact with Earth. Then Red Death rears its
head again, killing her entire work crew,
leaving Leica all alone until a handsome
Curador offers her refuge in the Dome—the
only place on Gabriel untouched by Red
Death, where a decadent and sultry life awaits.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Love That Split the World
By: Henry, Emily
Natalie's last summer in her small Kentucky
hometown is off to a magical start . . . until she
starts seeing the "wrong things."
Find it: Cloud Library
The Red Rising Trilogy
Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star
By: Brown, Pierce
Description from the first book, Red Rising:
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste
in the color-coded society of the future. Like
his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that
he and his people are making the surface of
Mars livable for future generations. Yet he
spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood
and sweat will one day result in a better world
for his children.
Find it: Cloud Library
BiblioTech Digital Library | www.bexarbibliotech.org | Copyright 2016
Passenger
By: Bracken, Alexandra
Violin prodigy Etta Spencer had big
plans for her future, but a tragic
accident has put her once-bright career
at risk. Closely tied to her musical skill,
however, is a mysterious power she
doesn't even know she has. When her
two talents collide during a stressful
performance, Etta is drawn back
hundreds of years through time...
Find it: Cloud Library
Tell Me Three Things
By: Buxbaum, Julie
Everything about Jessie is wrong. At
least, that’s what it feels like during her
first week as a junior at her new ultraintimidating prep school in Los Angeles.
Just when she’s thinking about
hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets
an email from a person calling
themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for
short), offering to help her navigate the
wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it
an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on
SN for some much-needed help?
Find it: Cloud Library
What Happens Now
By: Castle, Jennifer
The summer Ari first sees Camden, she
longs for him from afar. When the two
forge a true connection the following
summer, Ari lets herself fall . . . hard. As
their romance blossoms, she’ll have to
discover the very real boy behind her
infatuation while also struggling with
her own demons, obligations, and
loyalties.
Find it: Cloud Library
Fiction
The Assistants
By: Perri, Camille
Featuring an eclectic clan of
K-2far
coconspirators, aGrades
love interest
too handsome to be trusted, and a
razor-sharp voice full of wry humor,
The Assistants is a rallying cry for the
leagues of overeducated and
underpaid women who are asking
themselves, How is it that after all
these years, we are still assistants?
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Barkskins
By: Proulx, Annie
From Annie Proulx—the Pulitzer
Prize-​
and National Book Award-​
winning author of The Shipping
News and “Brokeback Mountain,”
comes her masterwork: an epic,
dazzling, violent, magnificently
dramatic novel about the taking
down of the world’s forests.
Find it: 3MCloud Library
The Bricks that Built the Houses
By: Tempest, Kate
Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving
London in a fourth-hand Ford with a
suitcase full of stolen money, in a
mess of tangled loyalties and
impulses. But can they truly leave
the city that's in their bones?
Find it: 3MCloud Library
End of atch
By: King, Stephen
The spectacular finale to the trilogy
that began with Mr. Mercedes
(winner of the Edgar Award) and
Finders Keepers—In End of Watch,
the diabolical “Mercedes Killer”
drives his enemies to suicide, and if
Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don’t
figure out a way to stop him, they’ll
be victims themselves.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Girls
By: Cline, Emma
Loosely based on the Manson murders,
follows a teen drawn in by an alluring
group of older girls who turn out to be
members of a cult.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Here's to Us
By: Hilderbrand, Elin
Three romantic rivals. One crowded
house. Plenty of room for jealousy.
Laurel Thorpe, Belinda Rowe, and
Scarlett Oliver share only two things; a
love for the man they all married, Deacon
Thorpe--a celebrity chef with an
insatiable appetite for life--and a
passionate dislike of one another.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Imagine Me Gone
By: Haslett, Adam
Told in alternating points of view by all
five members of the family, this searing,
gut-wrenching, and yet frequently
hilarious novel brings alive with
remarkable depth and poignancy the
love of a mother for her children, the
often inescapable devotion siblings feel
toward one another, and the legacy of a
father's pain in the life of a family.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
LaRose
By: Erdrich, Louise
An emotionally haunting contemporary
tale of a tragic accident, a demand for
justice, and a profound act of atonement
with ancient roots in Native American
culture.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Nest
By: Sweeney, Cynthia D'Aprix
A warm, funny and acutely perceptive
debut novel about four adult siblings and
the fate of the shared inheritance that
has shaped their choices and their lives.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Night of the Animals
By: Broun, Bill
In this imaginative debut, the tale of
Noah’s Ark is brilliantly recast as a story
of fate and family, set in a near-future
London.Over the course of a single night
in 2052, a homeless man named
Cuthbert Handley sets out on an
astonishing quest: to release the animals
of the London Zoo.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Not Working
By: Owens, Lisa
Claire Flannery has just quit her office
job, hoping to take some time to discover
her real passion. The problem is, she’s
not exactly sure how to go about finding
it.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Solemn
By: Buckhanon, Kalisha
Set in the trailer-park world of
Mississippi, this searing story unfurls
when teenager Solemn witnesses a man
throw a baby down a well. The incident
continues to haunt Solemn, and she
begins to sense that the baby was her
half-sister...
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Sport of Kings
By: Morgan, C. E.
Henry Forge has partnered with his
daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavor of
raw obsession: to breed the next
superhorse, the next Secretariat. But
when Allmon Shaughnessy, an ambitious
young black man, comes to work on their
farm, the violence of the Forges’ history
and the exigencies of appetite are
brought starkly into view.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Nonfiction
Alligator Candy
A Memoir
By: Kushner, David
David Kushner grew up in the early
1970s in the Florida suburbs. It was
when kids still ran free, riding bikes
and disappearing into the nearby
woods for hours at a time. One
morning in 1973, however,
everything changed. David’s older
brother Jon biked through the forest
to the convenience store for candy,
and never returned...
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
All Strangers Are Kin
Adventures in Arabic and the Arab
World
By: O'Neill, Zora
A natural storyteller with an eye for
the deeply absurd and the deeply
human, O’Neill explores the
indelible links between culture and
communication. A powerful
testament to the dynamism of
language, All Strangers Are Kin
reminds us that learning another
tongue leaves you rich with so much
more than words.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Angels with Dirty Faces
By: Wilson, Jonathan
How Argentinian Soccer Defined a
Nation and Changed the Game
Forever. [This book] is the definitive
history of one of the world’s greatest
soccer-playing nations and its
paradoxes.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Being Jazz
My Life as a (Transgender) Teen
By: Jennings, Jazz
Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest
and most prominent voices in the
national discussion about gender...
identity. At the age of five, Jazz
transitioned to life as a girl, with the
support of her parents. A year later,
her parents allowed her to share her
incredible journey in her first
Barbara Walters interview, aired at a
time when the public was much less
knowledgeable or accepting of the
transgender community.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Gene
An Intimate History
By: Mukherjee, Siddhartha
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning,
bestselling author of The Emperor of
All Maladies—a magnificent history
of the gene and a response to the
defining question of the future:
What becomes of being human
when we learn to “read” and “write”
our own genetic information?
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is
Really Up To
By: Burnett, Dean
A delightful tour of our mysterious,
mischievous gray matter from
neuroscientist and massively
popular Guardian blogger Dean
Burnett.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Lift
Fitness Culture, From Naked Greeks
and Acrobats to Jazzercise and
Ninja Warriors
By: Kunitz, Daniel
A fascinating cultural history of
fitness, from Greek antiquity to the
era of the “big-box gym” and
beyond, exploring the ways in which
human exercise has changed over
time—and what we can learn from
our ancestors.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Nurses
A Year of Secrets, Drama, and
Miracles with the Heroes of the
Hospital
By: Robbins, Alexandra
Nurses is the compelling story of the
year in the life of four nurses, and
the drama, unsung heroism, and
unique sisterhood of nursing—one
of the world’s most important
professions (nurses save lives every
day), and one of the world’s most
dangerous, filled with violence,
trauma, and PTSD.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Seinfeldia
How a Show About Nothing
Changed Everything
By: Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin
The hilarious behind-the-scenes
story of two guys who went out for
coffee and dreamed up
Seinfeld—the cultural sensation that
changed television and bled into the
real world, altering the lives of
everyone it touched.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
This Is Not My Beautiful Life
A Memoir
By: Fedden, Victoria
If you think is sucks to live with your
parents when you're thirty-six and
nine months pregnant, just wait til
the DEA comes knocking (with the
IRS in tow): welcome to Victoria
Fedden's Life.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The World According to Star Wars
By: Sunstein, Cass R.
“For anyone who loves the movies,
or loves to think about how the
world works, or simply loves their
father, this book will provoke and
inspire.”—Duncan Watts
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
En Español
Cómo ser la mejor mamá
By: Slayton, Marina
Una guía práctica para criar hijos íntegros en
medio de una generación quebrantada
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Crónicas de la adolestreinta
By: Santolaya, Laura
Laura Santolaya, autora de Los lunes me
odian, describe con humor en Crónicas de la
adolestreinta algunas de las situaciones más
típicas a las que se enfrentan los treintañeros
con la intención de provocar la sonrisa de los
que están, van a estar o han estado alguna
vez en los no tan felices Años Treinta.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Curso de cocina para novatos
De principiante a aficionado sin complejos
By: Echanove Labanda, Juan
Si eres un recién llegado a los placeres de la
mesa y de la cocina, en este libro conocerás
el arte de preparar platos sencillos, ricos y
rápidos, desde la tortilla de patatas hasta los
suaves arroces en su punto exacto, sin
olvidar los refrescantes gazpachos o las
cremosas natillas.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Un día volveré
By: Marsé, Juan
Historia sobre la violencia, la memoria y la
derrota, Un día volveré muestra con
extraordinaria intensidad la ruptura entre la
venganza y la justicia.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Diario del hombre pálido
Testimonio sobre la enfermedad
By: García Armendáriz, Juan
Umbral o Bolaño, Camus o Proust, muchos
otros, escribieron libros donde la enfermedad
era protagonista, cierto. Pero la cuestión de
fondo es de qué modo afronta el escritor el
hecho de la enfermedad. ¿Cómo da cuenta
de ella?, ¿de qué manera la transforma en
relato?, ¿acaso desde el rencor de enfermo
crónico?, ¿quizás amarrándose al poder
terapéutico del humor?
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
EL despertar de la gracia
Crecer en la gracia es una cosa.
Viviarla es otra.
By: Swindoll, Charles R.
¿Hemos olvidado el significado de la
gracia? Los predicadores predican
sobre ella. Los maestros la enseñan.
Los teólogos la analizan. Pero luego
nos olvidamos de ella.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Diez bicicletas para treinta
sonámbulos
Compilación de noticias
By: AA., VV.
Treinta historias inéditas de autores
como Antonio Muñoz Molina, Luis
Landero, Andrés Neuman, José
Ovejero, Santiago Auserón y un largo
etcétera de escritores referenciales de
este país que comparten escenario con
otros que tienen por delante una
prometedora carrera literaria, como
Juan Gracia Armendáriz, Guillermo
Aguirre o Sara Mesa.
Una fantástica combinación destinada
a todos los amantes de la literatura.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
En el país que amamos
Mi familia dividida
By: Guerrero, Diane
La estrella de Orange is the New Black
y de Jane the Virgin presenta su historia
personal acerca de la grave situación
en que se encuentran los inmigrantes
indocumentados en este país.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Enparejarte
El arte de vivir con éxito tu relación
By: Tornel, Nacho
Por más que pasen los años, el amor, la
pareja (y sus problemas) nunca pasan
de moda. Con una experiencia de más
de diez años como terapeuta familiar,
Ignacio Tornel nos ofrece un utilísimo
libro de autoayuda para todas aquellas
parejas que están pasando por un
bache, o simplemente para aquellas
parejas que quieran reforzar su amor.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Ensayo sobre la ceguera
By: Saramago, José
Un hombre parado ante un semáforo en
rojo se queda ciego súbitamente. Es el
primer caso de una «ceguera blanca»
que se expande de manera fulminante.
Internados en cuarentena o perdidos en
la ciudad, los ciegos tendrán que
enfrentarse con lo que existe de más
primitivo en la naturaleza humana: la
voluntad de sobrevivir a cualquier precio.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Jhon Jairo Velásquez
Mi vida como sicario de Pablo Escobar
By: Velásquez, Jhon Jairo
En este libro, Popeye detalla la ayuda
financiera y legal de Pablo Escobar, así
como también sus encarcelamientos,
donde se encontró con algunos
enemigos y como elaboró una estrategia
para sobrevivir en una guerra interna.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
El nombre propio de la felicidad
By: Jeunet, María
Mientras Nico, antaño un joven escritor
de éxito, trata de arreglar la vida de los
que le rodean, la suya va cayendo en un
pozo del que cada día le resulta más
difícil salir: hace años que no escribe,
acaba de mudarse a una polvorienta
buhardilla parisina y para conseguir un
dinero extra trabajaen el metro de París.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Suburbana
Una gran novela sobre los héroes
anónimos de la historia
By: Mazza, Claudio
Suburbana arranca con una llamada de
teléfono en la madrugada. Renzo, un
argentino exiliado en Madrid, debe viajar
de inmediato a Buenos Aires para asistir
a la operación de su padre enfermo. Su
regreso estará marcado por la
inesperada aparición de una mujer
llamada Alma, junto a la cual desgranará
la trayectoria vital de dos familias cuyo
destino corre paralelo a la historia de su
país.
Encuéntralo: Cloud Library
Beach Reads
All Stories Are Love Stories
By: Percer, Elizabeth
In this thoughtful, mesmerizing tale with
echoes of Station Eleven, the author of An
Uncommon Education follows a group of
survivors thrown together in the aftermath
of two major earthquakes that strike San
Francisco within an hour of each other—an
achingly beautiful and lyrical novel about
the power of nature, the resilience of the
human spirit, and the enduring strength of
love.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
By: Patrick, Phaedra
Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a
simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely
7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife,
Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same
gray slacks and mustard sweater vest,
waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to
his garden. But on the one-year anniversary
of Miriam's death, something changes.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Don't You Cry
By: Kubica, Mary
In downtown Chicago, a young woman
named Esther Vaughan disappears from her
apartment without a trace. A haunting letter
addressed to My Dearest is found among
her possessions, leaving her friend and
roommate Quinn Collins to wonder where
Esther is and whether or not she's the
person Quinn thought she knew.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
By: Cleave, Chris
[This story] features little-known history and
a perfect wartime love story inspired by the
real-life love letters between Chris Cleave’s
grandparents. This dazzling novel dares us
to understand that, against the great theater
of world events, it is the intimate losses, the
small battles, the daily human triumphs that
change us most.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Extraordinary Journey of the
Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea
Wardrobe
By: Puertolas, Romain
When the fakir—a professional con
artist—arrives in Paris, he has just one
goal: to get to Ikea. Armed with only a
counterfeit hundred-euro note in the
pocket of his silk trousers, he is
confident that he has all he needs to
thrive. But his plan goes horribly awry
when he hides inside a wardrobe at the
iconic Swedish retailer—the first in a
series of accidents that will send him on
a whirlwind tour across Europe.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
In the Country We Love
My Family Divided
By: Guerrero, Diane
The star of Orange is the New Black and
Jane the Virgin presents her personal
story of the real plight of undocumented
immigrants in this country.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
A Lady of Good Family
By: Mackin, Jeanne
Raised among wealth and privilege
during America’s fabled Gilded Age, a
niece of famous novelist Edith Wharton
and a friend to literary great Henry
James, Beatrix Farrand is expected to
marry, and marry well. But as a young
woman traveling through Europe with
her mother and aunt, she already knows
that gardens are her true passion.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
One True Loves
By: Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Years after her husband Jesse goes
missing on a helicopter expedition over
the Pacific, Emma thinks that she finally
might be ready to move on. Thinking
Jesse to be dead, she reconnects with an
old friend Sam and before she knows it,
the two are in love and engaged. But
when Jesse is found alive, Emma finds
herself with a husband and fiancé,
unsure of which to run to.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
By: Ronson, Jon
Simultaneously powerful and hilarious in
the way only Jon Ronson can be, So
You've Been Publicly Shamed is a deeply
honest book about modern life, full of
eye-opening truths about the escalating
war on human flaws - and the very scary
part we all play in it.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Strangler Vine
By: Carter, M.J.
Set in the untamed wilds of nineteenthcentury colonial India, a dazzling historical
thriller introducing an unforgettable
investigative pair.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Summer Before the War
By: Simonson, Helen
The bestselling author of Major
Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a
breathtaking novel of love on the eve of
World War I that reaches far beyond the
small English town in which it is set.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Sweetheart Deal
By: Dugan, Polly
Leo has long joked that, in the event of
his death, he wants his best friend
Garrett, a lifelong bachelor, to marry his
wife, Audrey. One drunken night, he goes
so far as to make Garrett promise to do
so. Then, twelve years later, Leo, a
veteran firefighter, dies in a skiing
accident...
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Year We Turned Forty
A Novel
By: Fenton, Liz; Steinke, Lisa
If you could repeat one year of your life,
what would you do differently?
This heartwarming and hilarious novel
features three best friends who get the
chance to return to the year they turned
forty—the year that altered all of their
lives, in ways big and small—and also get
the opportunity to change their future.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Lifestyle & Self-Help
I Do It with the Lights On
And 10 More Discoveries on the Road
to a Blissfully Shame-Free Life
By: Thore, Whitney Way
From the star of TLC’s My Big Fat
Fabulous Life and the YouTube
sensation “A Fat Girl Dancing” comes
an empowering memoir about letting
go of your limitations and living the
life you deserve. Right now.
Find it: Cloud Library
Instant Confidence
How to Stop Freaking Out and Keep
Being Awesome
By: McKenna, Paul
Paul McKenna, Ph.D., reveals the
secrets of mastering your emotions
and living with a greater sense of ease
and certainty than ever before. You
will learn how to push the "off" switch
on fear and desperation and create
huge amounts of confidence and
motivation in just a few moments.
Find it: Hoopla
Joy on Demand
The Art of Discovering the Happiness
Within
By: Tan, Chade-Meng
A long-awaited follow-up to the New
York Times bestselling Search Inside
Yourself shows us how to cultivate joy
within the context of our fast-paced
lives and explains why it is critical to
creativity, innovation, confidence, and
ultimately success in every arena.
Find it: Cloud Library
The Laws of Lifetime Growth
Always Make Your Future Bigger Than
Your Past
By: Sullivan, Dan; Nomura,
Catherine
Growth is a fundamental human
need. It is at the root of everything...
that gives us a feeling of
accomplishment, satisfaction,
meaning, and progress. Yet many
people find their growth stalled at
some point. This book offers ten
simple, elegant, and powerful laws
that readers can use to keep a fresh,
innovative perspective on their lives
and the world around them.
Find it: Hoopla
Love the Home You Have
Simple Ways to…Embrace Your Style
*Get Organized *Delight in Where
You Are
By: Michaels, Melissa
Melissa’s encouragement beckons
you to get comfortable and then get
creative as you:
find beauty in the ordinary, discover
your style and let it shine with simple
ideas. Leap from dreamer to doer
with confidence.
Find it: Cloud Library
Reinvent Your Relationship
A Therapist's Insights to having the
Relationship You've Always Wanted
By: Aluisy, Ana
In Reinvent Your Relationship, you'll
not only get proven advice, but you'll
learn about your and your partner's
motivations, needs and the barriers
that both of you can face to improve
communication, care, and
connection.
Find it: Hoopla
Self Made
Becoming Empowered, Self-Reliant,
and Rich in Every Way
By: GalÁN, Nely
For readers of #GIRLBOSS and
viewers of Shark Tank—a global
revolution in entrepreneurship is
under way, inspiring women to blaze
a trail of financial self-reliance and
become self-made.
Find it: Cloud Library
Smart Mom, Rich Mom
How to Build Wealth While Raising a
Family
By: Palmer, Kimberly
Smart Mom, Rich Mom explores how
women today are navigating the
financially challenging career/parenting
years. Written by a national money
columnist and mom of two, the book
chronicles people who have stayed in
the game—full-time, freelance,
self-employed, and more—and
emerged more prosperous and
empowered.
Find it: Cloud Library
Spark Joy
An Illustrated Master Class on the Art
of Organizing and Tidying Up
By: Kondo, Marie
Japanese decluttering guru Marie
Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of
Tidying Up has revolutionized
homes—and lives—across the world.
Now, Kondo presents an illustrated
guide to her acclaimed KonMari
Method, with step-by-step folding
illustrations for everything from shirts to
socks, plus drawings of perfectly
organized drawers and closets.
Find it: Cloud Library
You Are Enough
How To Elevate Your Thoughts, Align
Your Energy & Get Out of the
Comparison Trap
By: Mendoza-Jones, Cassie
You are Enough explores why we have
become so worried about what other
people think of us, and what our
infatuation with comparison can cause
on physical, mental, emotional and
spiritual levels.
Find it: Hoopla
Local Texas Authors
Agent I1: Tristan
The D.I.R.E. Agency Series, Book One
By: Hahn, Joni
Raised in the art of warfare, Former
Navy SEAL, Tristan Jacobs, has always
been a force to reckon with. Now that
D.I.R.E. has successfully implemented
his scientific enhancements, he’s a
walking weapon. Unstoppable, as long
as he stays focused. No relationships.
Find it: BiblioBoard
When ex-BUD/S teammate, Aidan
Monroe, interrupts his long-awaited
sabbatical to call in a favor, Tristan
reluctantly fills the simple request: take
out his sister’s fiancé.
Find it: BiblioBoard
Chicken Poop for the Soul
Backyard Adventures
By: Metcalf, Teri
Based on several years of observation,
[the author] talks about the pecking
order dynamics and chicken behaviors
towards one another, other animals
and people. She also describes the
natural progression from her longtime
interest in whole foods to raising
chickens and vegetables on their
one-acre piece of land in College
Station, Texas.
Find it: BiblioBoard
Gwendolyn's Sword
By: Haltom, E. A.
While travelling to deliver a captured
mercenary of would-be usurper Prince
John to a nearby gaol, her constable
takes her on a detour to the local prior,
who gravely informs her that King
Arthur’s mythical sword, Caliburn, is
destined to be hers.
...Gwendolyn’s Sword answers the
question, what if King Arthur had
actually returned to 12th century
England — as a woman?
Find it: BiblioBoard
Loving Eleanor
By: Albert, Susan Wittig
When AP political reporter Lorena
Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the wife of the
1932 Democratic presidential
candidate, the two women become
deeply, intimately involved. Their
relationship begins with mutual
romantic passion, matures through
stormy periods of enforced separation
and competing interests, and warms
into an enduring, encompassing
friendship that ends only with both
women's deaths in the 1960s—all of it
documented by 3300 letters exchanged
over thirty years.
Find it: BiblioBoard
Matchbook: A Novel
By: Prosapio, Desireé
Driven into a deep depression by the
death of her daughter, Carol Lassiter
has been homeless for three years.
She's working out of her self-declared
homeless oasis, [but soon] she's hurled
back into the nightmare she's been
desperately trying to forget. The voice
on the other end claims to have an
answer to the question that savagely
unraveled her world to begin with —
the death of her daughter Ella, a death
ruled by police as a suicide.
Find it: BiblioBoard
Meeting God at Midnight
By: Scharff, Ahuva Batya
Meeting God at Midnight is the title of
Ahuva Batya’s latest book of Jewishthemed poetry. Poems in the work
cover the themes of mysticism,
childlessness and hope.
Find it: BiblioBoard
Murder by Misrule
A Francis Bacon Mystery
By: Castle, Anna
Francis Bacon is charged with
investigating the murder of a fellow
barrister at Gray's Inn.
...Even the brilliant Francis Bacon is at a
loss — and in danger — until he sees
through the disguises of the season of
Misrule.
Find it: BiblioBoard
Proximity
The Proximity Series, Book One
By: George, M. A
She's an alien whose home world
doesn't even know she exists. He just
inherited a planet, and now he's running
from it. She has spent a lifetime hiding
in plain sight. He wants to escape the
spotlight. Her touch can heal. His
wounds are deep. Two hearts, two
planets collide. It's the perfect union.
Except the part where the world's about
to end.
Find it: BiblioBoard
Recetas de mi vida
Stories and Recipes From San
Antonio, Texas
By: González, Bárbara Renaud (Editor)
In Recetas de mi vida, editor Barbara
Renaud Gonzalez collects dozens of the
stories and recipes that senior citizens
have shared as part of a writing course
at BiblioTech Library in San Antonio, TX.
Each entry, written with the loving care
given to matters close to the heart,
speaks to the heritage, tradition and
culture of the Hispanic people.
Find it: BiblioBoard
Short Short Stories
By: Zimmerman, Eugene G.
We all like stories. Sometimes we'd like
something we could read in a few
minutes while getting a cup of java at
our favorite coffee shop or waiting for
an appointment. This book includes 70
very short stories that fit that bill. Some
may make you laugh, some may make
you wonder, but hopefully all will
entertain you.
Find it: BiblioBoard
Summer Magazines - Find these and more on Zinio
Coming Soon!
The Black Widow
By: Silva, Daniel
Publication Date: 07/11/2016
Daniel Silva delivers another
spellbinding international
thriller—one that finds the
legendary Gabriel Allon grappling
with an ISIS mastermind.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Age of Bowie
By: Morley, Paul
Publication Date: 07/25/2016
Morley offers a startling
biographical critique of David
Bowie’s legacy, showing how he
never stayed still even when he
withdrew from the spotlight,
how he always knew his own
worth, and released a dazzling
plethora of personalities,
concepts, and works into the
world with a single-minded
determination and a voluptuous
imagination to create something
the likes of which the world had
never seen before—and likely
will never see again.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Magic
By: Steel, Danielle
Published Date: 07/04/2016
Selected by secret invitation,
the guests arrive dressed in
white, with tables and chairs,
white linens, flowers, fine
china, sparkling crystal, and an
elegant dinner. As the sun
sets, thousands of candles are
lit...
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
Truly Madly Guilty
By: Moriarty, Liane
Publication Date: 07/25/2016
The new novel from Liane
Moriarty, the #1 New York
Times bestselling author of The
Husband’s Secret, Big Little
Lies, and What Alice Forgot,
about how sometimes we don’t
appreciate how extraordinary
our ordinary lives are until it’s
too late.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Bourne Enigma
By: Van Lustbader, Eric
Published Date: 06/20/2016
On the eve of Russian general
Boris Karpov's wedding, Jason
Bourne receives an enigmatic
message from his old friend
and fellow spymaster. In
Moscow, what should be a
joyous occasion turns bloody
and lethal.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library
The Girl with the Lower Back
Tattoo
By: Schumer, Amy
Publication Date: 08/15/2016
In The Girl with the Lower Back
Tattoo, Amy mines her past for
stories about her teenage
years, her family, relationships,
and sex and shares the
experiences that have shaped
who she is—a woman with the
courage to bare her soul to
stand up for what she believes
in, all while making us laugh.
Find it: 3M Cloud Library