Curious Parents Book Resources

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Check out these books from your library for your daughter’s summer reading list. Whether she’s into the mysterious or she’s an older girl just starting to like boys, one of these books will help her keep on learning through the summer—the fun way!

A Kit Mystery: Midnight in Lonesome Hollow By Kathleen Ernst

Kit, who may be one of your daughter’s favorite American Girls, is a brave and inquisitive child from Cincinnati, visiting her Aunt in depression-era backwoods Kentucky where she discovers new friends and a mystery. When a college professor comes from out of town to study local craftsmanship, Kit jumps at the opportunity to help out. However, problems begin to arise as their equipment is destroyed and the locals refuse to talk. Follow Kit on her quest to discover the answer to these questions and more along with important lessons about empathy and forgiveness.

Little Fur:A Fox Called Sorrow By Isobelle Carmody

Little fur is a half-breed healer with both the vile blood of a troll and the noble blood of an elf running through her. She spends her days planting seeds in the city and caring for the sick and wounded animals who seek her out. When a great and ominous storm tells the wise Sett Owl of a plot to destroy the Earth Spirit, Little Fur joins a quest to travel to the Troll city and discover the troll king’s intentions. On her journey she meets with Sorrow, a fox of old wounds and even older sadness. Together with other animal friends, they must travel deep within the earth and brave both the troll city and the prophecy that one of their own will betray them.

How to be a Baby…By Me, The Big Sister By Sue Heap and Sally Lloyd-Jones

Because babies obviously have no idea how to be a baby, How to be a Baby is a comprehensive guide on the correct way to be a baby written by an older sister. In it is detailed exactly just what a baby can’t do (anything fun) and what a baby can do (sleep, burp, and ride backwards in cars). The older sister delights in explaining to her baby brother all the great things she can do and he cannot do, like having friends and eating chocolate. In the end, though, she tells her brother that someday she will teach him how to do fun things just like her, just not quite as well.
 

The Problem with Paradise By Lesley Dahl

All 14-year-old Casey wants to do this summer is hang out with her friends and spend some quality time with her boyfriend, Matt. Unfortunately, she has to spend almost her entire summer trapped on a tropical island with only her family as company. When Casey arrives on the island, she sees her whole summer laid out before her as one long boring prison sentence without even the basic necessities of telephones or the internet. Things start to look up for her when Jonah, a local boy, shows up to spend the summer helping out on the island. Now Casey will have to make the tough decision about whether she wants to be friends or “friends” with the new boy. To make things worse, there are reports of a tropical storm heading their way. Maybe her summer won’t be so boring after all.