Book Summaries and Trailers 25-26

Find our more about the books on this year's list. Which book will you read first?

Willa of the Wood

by Robert Beatty

Swim Team

by Johnnie Christmas

Ferris

by Kate DiCamillo

Maya and the Robot

by Eve L. Ewing

A Place at the Table

by Saadia Faruqi & Laura Shovan

The Last Musketeer

by Stuart Gibbs

One moment, his parents were selling their family heirlooms to Michel Dinicouer, a mysterious curator at the Louvre in Paris – and the next thing Greg knows, he’s in France in 1615. His parents have come along, too, only they’ve been captured by the King’s Guard and thrown into La Mort, the world’s most dangerous prison. Now, Greg has to rescue them… but how? By uniting the Three Musketeers. Greg soon discovers that the three great warriors from Alexander Dumas’s classic novel actually exist — only they’re teenagers as well and haven’t met yet. Even stranger, Greg might just turn out to be one of them.

The Last Last-Day-of- Summer

by Lamar Giles

Otto and Sheed are the local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. And as the summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little bit more time for fun, even as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. That is, until a mysterious man appears with a camera that literally freezes time. Now, with the help of some very strange people and even stranger creatures, Otto and Sheed will have to put aside their differences to save their town—and each other—before time stops for good.