Staff picks for the 2017 Summer Reading Challenge. Enjoy great reads and fun activities. Log your progress and earn badges and prizes along the way!


Book cover for Afterworlds

Afterworlds

Westerfeld, Scott.
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Barakamon Vol. 1

Barakamon Vol. 1

Yoshino, Satsuki, author, artist.
Call Number: 740.9999 B2245 v.1
Book cover for Brief Histories of Everyday Objects

Brief Histories of Everyday Objects

Warner, Andy,
Call Number: 740.9999 W279
Book cover for Channel Zero: The Complete Collection

Channel Zero: The Complete Collection

Wood, Brian, 1972-
Call Number: 740.9999 W873-5
Book cover for Deadly Design

Deadly Design

Dockter, Debra,
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Genius: The Game

Genius: The Game

Gout, Leopoldo.
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Iron Cast

Iron Cast

Soria, Destiny.
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Keep Her: A Novel

Keep Her: A Novel

Krygier, Leora,
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Miles from Nowhere

Miles from Nowhere

Clipston, Amy.
Call Number: YA
Book cover for My Neighbor Seki

My Neighbor Seki

Morishige, Takuma, 1978- author, artist.
Call Number: 740.9999 M9955-11 v.1
Book cover for Original Fake

Original Fake

Cronn-Mills, Kirstin, 1968-
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Piper Perish

Piper Perish

Cagan, Kayla,
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Shadowshaper

Shadowshaper

Older, Daniel Jose
Call Number: YA
Book cover for Tetris: The Games People Play

Tetris: The Games People Play

Brown, Box.
Call Number: 740.9999 B8765-1
Book cover for The Truth Commission

The Truth Commission

Juby, Susan, 1969-
Call Number: YA
Book cover for The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

Hattemer, Kate.
Call Number: YA

When a sleazy reality tv show called For Art's Sake starts filming at their high school, four teens write a subversive epic poem inspired by Ezra Pound's Cantos as a protest against it. But when one of their own winds up being cast in the show, the others are left feeling betrayed. Fans of John Green will love this funny book filled with eccentric characters, brave gerbils, art, and big ideas.

Book cover for You're Welcome, Universe

You're Welcome, Universe

Gardner, Whitney
Call Number: YA

When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a 'mainstream' school in the suburbs, where she’s treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art. Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off—and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war.