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Summer Learning: Start Your Own Book Club

Start your own summer book club with these great always available eBooks and eAudio titles from Overdrive and Hoopla. This is an multigenerational booklist that features selections for Readers (5-10), Pre-Teens (10-12), Teens (12-17), and Adults (18+). Selected by SJPL Staff.

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30 items

  • For Readers, eBook. Two tales, set in a time "when animals and human beings still talked to each other," display Thomas King's cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and reissued as an early chapter book, these stories are…
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  • For Readers, eAudio. There's nothing like a best friend ... Frog and Toad, those famous pals, are beloved by generations of children. Their every adventure is filled with the magic of true friendship, whether they're telling ghost stories, searching…
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  • Chronicles of Avonlea

    Anne of Green Gables: Avonlea Series, Book 1

    Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
    For Readers and Pre-Teens, eBook. Get swept into another era in this classic from author L. M. Montgomery. Originally penned with younger audiences in mind, Chronicles of Avonlea is a comfort read that will captivate readers of all ages. This…
    eBook, 2012Cleveland : Duke Classics, 2012.
  • For Readers and Pre-Teens, eBook. Habaia una vez...There lived a girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred…
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  • For Readers and Pre-Teens, eBook. For more than a century, The Wind in the Willows and its endearing protagonists have enchanted children of all ages. Whether the four friends are setting forth on an exciting adventure, engaging in a comic caper, or…
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  • For Teens, eAudio. Meredith's family's annual game of assassin at Martha's Vineyard during a summer wedding is the perfect chance to honor her sister's legacy, and finally join the world again. But when she forms an alliance with a cute groomsman,…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023[Old Saybrook] : Tantor Audio, 2023.
  • For Teens, eAudio. Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2021[Old Saybrook] : Tantor Audio, 2021.
  • For Teens, eBook. The stunning Hunger Games trilogy is complete! The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay,…
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  • For Teens and Adults, eBook. In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash hit series about…
    eBook, 2021Cleveland : Image Comics, 2021.
  • For Teens, eBook. At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom,…
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  • For Teens and Adults, eBook. Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into…
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  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    Kimmerer, Robin Wall
    For Teens and Adults, eAudio. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2016Old Saybrook : Tantor Audio, 2016.
  • For Teens, eBook. From a fresh new voice on the contemporary YA scene, My Life with the Walter Boys centers on the prim, proper, and always perfect Jackie Howard. When her world is turned upside down by tragedy, Jackie must learn to cut loose and be…
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  • For Teens and Adults, eAudio. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2008Ashland : Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC, 2008.
  • For Adults, eAudio. Solve the murder to save what's left of the world. Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2024[S.I.] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2024.
  • For Adults, eAudio. The classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part One contains the first half of the complete novel.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023Ashland : Blackstone Publishing, 2023.
  • For Adults, eAudio. Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part Two contains the second half of the complete novel.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023Ashland : Blackstone Publishing, 2023.
  • For Adults, eAudio. ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem, terror, and other Dark Things In General. Discretion a must. Excellent…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023[Old Saybrook] : Tantor Audio, 2023.