Staff Picks
#BroaderBookshelf 2017 - Read a Book from the Children's or Teen Collection
- Richland Library
- Sunday, July 02, 2017
Collection
Recapture some childhood magic and check an item off your #BroaderBookshelf list with a book from our Children's or Teen Collection. Whether you're looking for a fantastical adventure full of wizards and talking dragons or a heart-wrenching exploration of the true costs of war, Richland Library has you covered!
Check out our #BroaderBookshelf display on the first level of Richland Libary Main for some great children's and teen books that will appeal to adult readers. You will also find some classics and books with diverse characters there, which means you can take care of two #BroaderBookshelf prompts at one time!
Use the #BroaderBookshelf challenge as part of your Summer Learning Challenge.
Go Ask Alice
Published in 1971
Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Published in 1994
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
Keeper
Published in 2010
On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea.
Tuck Everlasting
Published in 1975
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Published in 2001
Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
The Secret Garden
Published in 2013
Ten-year old Mary come to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and mysteries of a locked garden.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Published in 1998
A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.
The Dark is Rising
Published in 2002
On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.
Bud, Not Buddy
Published in 1999
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Published in 1995
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Published in 2001
Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
Because of Winn-Dixie
Published in 2000
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Published in 2006
Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.
Harriet the Spy
Published in 2001
The discovery of Harriet's secret journal, concerning the personalities and activities of her schoolmates and neighbors, causes pandemonium.
The Graveyard Book
Published in 2008
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
The Phantom Tollbooth
A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provide a cure for his boredom.
A Wizard of Earthsea
Published in 1991
A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.
More Tales of Uncle Remus
Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, His Friends, Enemies, and Others
The author retells the classic Afro-American tales.
The Giver
Published in 2006
At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.
Anne of Green Gables
Published in 2014
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Hatchet
Published in 1987
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Pax
Published in 2016
"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"-- Provided by publisher.
The Westing Game
Published in 2003
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
The Lightning Thief
Published in 2005
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Published in 1998
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
[illustrations by Barry Moser].
Published in 2001
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
Maniac Magee
A Novel
Published in 1990
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Published in 2016
A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again
Published in 2012
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
Little House on the Prairie
Published in 2010
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
Brown Girl Dreaming
Published in 2014
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become. Praise for Jacqueline Woodson: Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story. but a mature exploration of grown-up issues and self-discovery."-The New York Times Book Review"-- Provided by publisher.
The Book Thief
Published in 2016
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.