This document provides a list of over 100 books published in August 2017 grouped into various genres. For each book, it lists intended reader interests and brief descriptions. The genres covered include mystery, history, speculative fiction, adventure, sports, issue books, nonfiction, and graphic novels. For most books, 4-5 reader interests are listed, such as "clues," "suspense," "series," etc. The document aims to help readers discover new books that match their interests.

1. 100
Great New Books
August 2017

2. Mystery

3. M!X and Max books
http://www.simonandschusterpublishing.com/aladdinmix/

4. Home sweet motel
For readers who like:
❖ Funny stories
❖ FLorida
❖ Pop Culture
❖ Inventive children
❖ Kitsch

5. Yours Truly
For readers who like:
❖ Sequels
❖ Maple Syrup
❖ Tall girls
❖ Family problems

6. The Unbreakable Code
For readers who like:
❖ Clues
❖ San Francisco
❖ History
❖ Suspense

7. Harlem Charade
For readers who like:
❖ Historical tie ins
❖ African-American
❖ City stories
❖ kidnapping

8. Into the lion’s den
For readers who like:
❖ Privileged kids
❖ City stories
❖ Clues
❖ Art mysteries

9. Framed!
For readers who like:
❖ Series (five)
❖ Alex rider
❖ Adventure
❖ Landmarks
Vanished August 2017

10. The Treasure of Maria Mamoun
For readers who like:
❖ Family problems
❖ Grand houses
❖ Multicultural
characters
(Lebanese)
❖ Seaside setting

11. The Wolf Keepers
For readers who like:
❖ Outdoor Adventure
❖ National parks
❖ Zoo
❖ Runaways

12. Black Flowers, White Lies
For readers who like:
❖ Gaslighting
❖ City stories
❖ Family issues
❖ Creepy tales
YA

13. Frozen Charlotte
For readers who like:
❖ Creepiest dolls ever
❖ Family issues
❖ Windswept houses
❖ English stories
YA

14. History

15. The Inquisitor’s tale
For readers who like:
❖ Medeival tales
❖ Ghost dogs
❖ Ensemble cast
❖ This author

16. Cinnamon Moon
For readers who like:
❖ Orphans
❖ Us history
❖ Late 1800s
❖ Chicago fire
❖ Gangs

17. An Eagle in the Snow
For readers who like:
❖ World War II
❖ Hitler
❖ “What If” histories
❖ ghosts

18. Four-Four-Two
For readers who like:
❖ World War II
❖ Japanese interest
❖ Personal stories
❖ THis author

19. The Bicycle Spy
For readers who like:
❖ World War II
❖ French Resistance
❖ Bicycling
❖ Jews hiding from
nazis

20. The Last Cherry Blossoms
For readers who like:
❖ World War ii
❖ Events in Japan
❖ Aftermath of
bombing
❖ Family stories

21. Midnight without a moon
For readers who like:
❖ Civil rights (1955)
❖ Emmet till
❖ Naacp
❖ Children at odds
with family

22. Revenge of the green banana
For readers who like:
❖ Catholic school
tales
❖ 1950s
❖ School plays
❖ Pranks
❖ Humorous stories

23. I Survived: The Eruption of
Mt. St. Helens, 1980
For readers who like:
❖ Survival
❖ Science
❖ Pacific northwest
❖ Family drama

24. http://stjalumni.org/1980-1989.html
Jeans and shoes in 1980
http://stjalumni.org/1980-1989.html

25. Cloud and Wallfish
For readers who like:
❖ Spies
❖ Berlin wall
❖ Friendship stories
❖ Family drama
❖ Late

26. Speculative Fiction

27. Me and Marvin Gardens
For readers who like:
❖ Suburban sprawl
❖ Odd animals
❖ Family issues
❖ Hidden worlds

28. Fuzzy
For readers who like:
❖ Computerized
principals
❖ Kids against the
system
❖ Antitesting books
❖ dystopian

29. Curse of the boggin
For readers who like:
❖ Murder mysteries
❖ Powers
❖ Hauntings
❖ Series
❖ This author
(Pendragon, The
light)

30. Horizon
For readers who like:
❖ Space adventure
❖ Series (five)
❖ Multicultural cast
❖ survival

31. The Lost Property Office
For readers who like:
❖ British books
❖ Family secrets
❖ Hidden worlds
❖ Powers
❖ Series
❖ October 2017)

32. Time traveling with a hamster
For readers who like:
❖ Rewinding time
❖ Great devices!
❖ Hamsters
❖ British stories

33. How to Be a Supervillain
For readers who like:
❖ Over the hedge
❖ Notebook Novels

34. Five Days of Famous
For readers who like:
❖ A Christmas carol
❖ Fame and celebrity
❖ Goofy
❖ Second chances

35. Young Scrooge
For readers who like:
❖ Horrible main
characters
❖ Cliff-hanger
chapter endings
❖ This author (Really
the only reason to
read this!)

36. The Wizard’s Dog
For readers who like:
❖ Wizards and
apprentices
❖ Medieval tales
❖ Dog’s perspective
❖ Quest tales

37. Adventure

38. A New Recruit
For readers who like:
❖ Mind controlling
organizations
❖ Kids saving the
world
❖ Super powers
❖ celebrities

39. Hideout
For readers who like:
❖ Survival
❖ Abused children
❖ Everglades
❖ Backwoods
characters

40. Addison Cooke and the
Treasure of the incas
For readers who like:
❖ Precocious children
❖ Travel adventures
❖ Ensemble cast
❖ Children saving the
world

41. Scar Island
For readers who like:
❖ Lemony snicket
❖ No adults
❖ Survival
❖ storms

42. The Pyramid hunters
For readers who like:
❖ Egyptian mythology
❖ Northrup’s
Tombquest
❖ Family mysteries
❖ Multicultural
characters

43. Ryan Quinn and the Rebel’s Escape
For readers who like:
❖ Travel stories
❖ Spies
❖ Villians
❖ Alex RIder

44. Last Day on mars
For readers who like:
❖ Mars Evacuees
❖ Space adventure
❖ Survival
❖ Children working
together

45. Lost in the Pacific
For readers who like:
❖ Narrative nonfiction
❖ World War II
❖ Sea faring
adventures
❖ Eddie Rickenbacker

46. Bodyguard: Recruit
For readers who like:
❖ Paperbacks
❖ Series (4)
❖ Alex Rider
❖ British stories
❖ Details about being
a bodyguard!

47. Battle Bugs (Series)
For readers who like:
❖ Early Chapter books
❖ Bugs
❖ Fighting
❖ Being bug-sized
2015-present; nine
books

48. sports

49. Last Man Out
For readers who like:
❖ Parents dying
❖ Football
❖ Skateboarding
❖ Super sad books

50. Tagged Out
For readers who like:
❖ Baseball
❖ Gay baseball
players
❖ NOT a coming out
story
❖ Bullying
❖ Supportive friends

51. The Football Girl
For readers who like:
❖ Women’s rights
❖ Romance
❖ Football details
❖ Supportive families

52. Blowback ‘07
For readers who like:
❖ Time travel
❖ Carlisle Indian
school
❖ Football
❖ YA stories

53. Undefeated
For readers who like:
❖ Nonfiction
❖ Jim Thorpe
❖ Carlisle Indian
School
❖ Narrative histories

54. Point Guard
For readers who like:
❖ Girls playing on
boys teams
❖ Groups of friends
❖ Middle grade
identity
❖ Social conundrums

55. A long pitch home
For readers who like:
❖ Cricket
❖ Baseball
❖ Immigrant tales
❖ Personal identity

56. Soccer Step-up
For readers who like:
❖ hi/lo books
❖ Soccer descriptions
❖ Girl drama
❖ Budget cut tales

57. The Playbook
For readers who like:
❖ The Crossover
❖ Precepts
❖ Various narrative
forms
❖ Anecdotes
❖ Chicken Soup style
books

58. Outside shot
For readers who like:
❖ Matt Christopher
❖ SPorts history
❖ buy/girl friendships
❖ Play-by-plays
❖ Moral dilemmas

59. #WeNeedDiverseBooks

60. A blind guide to normal
For readers who like:
❖ Family drama
❖ What it would be
like tales
❖ Fun grandparents
❖ quilting

61. short
For readers who like:
❖ Counting by 7’s
❖ The Wizard of Oz
❖ School plays
❖ Challenges
❖ Adult friendships

62. How to avoid extinction
For readers who like:
❖ Fun grandparents
❖ Road trips
❖ Dogs
❖ Buick electras!

63. The BEst Man
For readers who like:
❖ Family stories
❖ School stories
❖ Memorable teachers
❖ Gay weddings

64. A Boy Called Bat
For readers who like:
❖ Characters on the
autism spectrum
❖ Veterinarians
❖ Friend Tales
❖ Skunks!

65. threads
For readers who like:
❖ Unlikely stories
❖ Travel
❖ China
❖ Adopted children
❖ Sad books (Sister
has died)

66. Stef Soto, Taco Queen
For readers who like:
❖ Supportive families
❖ Food
❖ Embarrassing
parents
❖ Family struggles
❖ Kids working for a
cause

67. Braced
For readers who like:
❖ Deenie!
❖ Scoliosis stories
❖ Problems with mom
❖ Identity
❖ Medical problems

68. Train i ride
For readers who like:
❖ Train trips
❖ Before Sunrise
❖ Light Romance
❖ Quirky characters
Mother has died of
heroin overdose.

69. The sweetest sound
For readers who like:
❖ American idol or the
voice
❖ Viral You Tube videos
❖ Children with
anxiety
❖ Friends drama
❖ African-American
characters

70. The Lotterys Plus One
For readers who like:
❖ All the diversity in
one book
❖ Adopted children
❖ Gay parents
❖ Super quirky
families

71. Star-Crossed
For readers who like:
❖ Emerging sexuality
❖ Personal identity
❖ School plays
❖ Friend drama

72. Happy Books

73. Crushing it
For readers who like:
❖ Cousins
❖ Conford or danziger
❖ Boy-next-door
❖ Drama
❖ Cyrano de bergerac

74. Patron Saint of
Junior Bridesmaids
For readers who like:
❖ Weddings
❖ Family tales
❖ Summers elsewhere
❖ Catholic families

75. Chloe on the Bright Side
For readers who like:
❖ Happy stories
❖ Pay it forward
❖ Diverse friends
❖ School stories

76. I am drums
For readers who like:
❖ Music
❖ Children passionate
about an interest
❖ Books with a girl
main character that
can be handed to a
boy

77. Spring break mistakes
For readers who like:
❖ Instagram
❖ Camps
❖ New York City
❖ Light romance

78. The Homework Strike
For readers who like:
❖ School stories
❖ Ensemble casts
❖ Andrew Clements
❖ The 14 Fibs of
Gregory K.

79. slacker
For readers who like:
❖ Video Games
❖ Unlikely events
❖ Community service
❖ Gordon Korman
books

80. REvenge of the Star Survivors
For readers who like:
❖ Misfit tales
❖ Original Star Trek
❖ Geek heroes
❖ Light romance
❖ Family issues

81. For readers who like:
❖ Mrs. Frisby
❖ Talking mice
❖ mouse/human
friendships
❖ Jimmy books
Word of Mouse

82. For readers who like:
❖ Quirky stories
❖ 1970s history
❖ Jewish concerns
❖ Family problems
with a light touch.,
Dreidels on the brain

83. issue Books

84. Family Game Night
For readers who like:
❖ Family problems
(Hoarding)
❖ Children trying to
solve own problems
❖ Friendship tales

85. Hello, Universe
For readers who like:
❖ Diverse characters
❖ Friend problems
❖ Bullying
❖ “Help, Lassie, Jimmy’s
in the well!”

86. Hero
For readers who like:
❖ Realities of pet
ownership
❖ Policemen
❖ Service dogs
❖ Suspense

87. Falling over sideways
For readers who like:
❖ Family problems
(Father has stroke)
❖ Balancing activities
in middle school
❖ Friend drama
❖ This author

88. Nothing but trouble
For readers who like:
❖ Pranks
❖ Gadgets
❖ Family problems
❖ Math and science in
stories

89. When Friendship Followed Me Home
For readers who like:
❖ Redemptive dogs
❖ Foster care stories
❖ Cancer stories
❖ Great librarians!

90. The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones
For readers who like:
❖ Precarious familiy
finances
❖ Nursing homes/the
elderly
❖ Empowered children

91. Garvey’s Choice
For readers who like:
❖ Poetry
❖ Quirky children
❖ Overbearing parents
❖ Have Space Suit, Will
Travel (Heinlein)
❖ Overweight
charactres

92. Army Brats
For readers who like:
❖ Mystery
❖ Children exploring
on own
❖ Children solving
problems
independently
❖ Military bases

93. See you in the Cosmos,
Carl Sagan
For readers who like:
❖ Autism Spectrum
narrator
❖ Road trips
❖ Dysfunctional
parents
❖ Loyal dogs

94. Nonfiction

95. Game On!
For readers who like:
❖ Progressive history
❖ Fun facts
❖ Inclusive overview
of historic video
games
❖ Amusing voice

96. Strong inside
For readers who like:
❖ Black history
❖ Basketball teams
and players
❖ Against the odds
stories
❖ Civil rights

97. Comics Confidential
For readers who like:
❖ Stories of artists
❖ Illustrations
❖ This author (History
of Little Golden
books and other
children’s lit topics)

98. Death on the River of Doubt
For readers who like:
❖ Adventure
❖ The Amazon
❖ Suspense
❖ Theodore Roosevelt

99. Sachiko
For readers who like:
❖ Aftermath of WWII
❖ Japanese history
❖ Cancer stories
❖ survivors

100. Presenting Buffalo Bill
For readers who like:
❖ The Wild west
❖ Longer nonfiction
❖ Placing of events
within historical
time frame
❖ Native Americans

101. Fascinating
For readers who like:
❖ Leonard nimoy
❖ Star Trek
❖ Picture book
biographies

102. Women who Launched the
Computer Age
For readers who like:
❖ Succinct history
❖ “Easy Readers”
(Levels tend to be
5.0+)
❖ Biographies
❖ Historical context

103. The Holocaust
For readers who like:
❖ Historical overviews
❖ Well formatted
books
❖ Illustrations
❖ Large format books

104. Vietnam
For readers who like:
❖ Excellent narrrative
nonfiction
❖ Complete
discussions
❖ Definitive book on
vietnam conflict

105. Billie Jean King
For readers who like:
❖ Biographies that
incorporate
concurrent events
❖ Well done
overviews
❖ Series biographies

106. Graphic Novels

107. Mighty jack
For readers who like:
❖ Autism Spectrum
characters
❖ Fairy Tale retellings
❖ Children in charge

108. Might jack
For readers who like:
❖ Goofy stories
❖ More text
❖ Sentient bugs
❖ This author
(Babymouse, Squish)

109. frazzled
For readers who like:
❖ Middle school is so
haaaaaard!
❖ “Boy was my face
red”
❖ Unrealistic school
stories
❖ Bork DIaries

110. Kung Fu Robot
For readers who like:
❖ SUper heroes
❖ Food (PB&J)
❖ Goofy stories
❖ Online presence
❖ Stories with apps

111. Secrets and Sequences
For readers who like:
❖ COding
❖ Math in stories
❖ Ensemble casts
❖ Clues
❖ Only tweens can
save the world

112. Floozombies
For readers who like:
❖ Frank Einstein
❖ Science
❖ Monsters
❖ Goofy stories

113. The Bad Guys
For readers who like:
❖ Talking animals
❖ Snort-through-nose
funny stories
❖ Different fonts and
sizes
❖ Early reader graphic
novels

114. Grumpy Cat
For readers who like:
❖ Internet memes
❖ Japanese anime
❖ Cats
❖ weirdness

115. For readers who like:
❖ Neighborhood
mysteries
❖ Fear of bullies
❖ Helping others
❖ Money smarts
Alex Vs. The Four-HEaded
Gargantuan

116. CatStronauts
For readers who like:
❖ Pigs in spaaaaace
❖ Different
personalities
❖ Babymouse
❖ Space

117. For Warriors Fans

118. Warriors

119. The Dragonet Prophecy
For readers who like:
❖ Wings of Fire
❖ 9 books, second
series
❖ Clans of dragons

120. The Escape
For readers who like
❖ Horses of the Dawn
❖ 3 books
❖ Historical fiction
❖ A few humans

121. Moonlight Brigade
For readers who like:
❖ Stand alone titles!
❖ Different types of
squirrels

122. Moonlight Brigade
For readers who like:
❖ The Wild Ones
❖ Two books
❖ Unfinished series
❖ Asst. Wild animals

123. The Storm
For readers who like:
❖ Guardians of
Ga’Hoole
❖ Fifteen books
❖ Scholastic
paperbacks
❖ Owls
❖ Movie Tie-in

124. The Battle Begins
For readers who like:
❖ Unnaturals
❖ Two books
❖ Unfinished series
❖ Sci Fi
❖ More humans

125. The Secrets of Bearhaven
For readers who like:
❖ Secrets of
Bearhaven
❖ 3 books
❖ Talking bears
❖ More humans

126. The Storm
For readers who like:
❖ The Menagerie
❖ 3 books
❖ Tui Sutherland
(Warriors author)
❖ Magical animals
❖ More humans

127. The Taken
For readers who like:
❖ Foxcraft
❖ Two books
❖ Fox, wild animals
❖ Unfinished series

128. The lone wolf
For readers who like:
❖ Wolves of the
Beyond
❖ 6 books
❖ This author
❖ Clan fighting

129. The Storm
For readers who like:
❖ Dogs of the
Drowned City
❖ Three books
❖ Natural Disaster
❖ A few humans

130. The Vanishing
For readers who like:
❖ The Last Dogs
❖ Four books
❖ Dystopia
❖ Some powers/magic

131. Watership Down
For readers who like:
❖ A challenge!
❖ Evil bunnies
❖ A bit more violence

132. Mystery
100 Great Books: http://www.allentownartmuseum.org/event/05-04-16/50-minutes-frank-lloyd-wright-library
Mystery: http://archive.jsonline.com/features/home/wright-and-like-tour-gives-rare-look-at-homes-designed-by-frank-lloyd-wright-and-his-disciples-b9949-
305366941.html
Sports: http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/never-built-what-los-angeles-could-have-been/7/
History:http://www.wright-house.com/frank-lloyd-wright/fallingwater-pictures/F1SW-fallingwater-in-fall.html
Adventure: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/08/17/phoenix-frank-lloyd-wright-house-arizona-community-foundation/88880134/
Nonfiction: http://usoniandreams.info/category/usonian-floor-plan-2/
Graphic novels: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2016/08/17/phoenix-frank-lloyd-wright-house-arizona-community-foundation/88880134/