Book Picks of the Week
Children's Books
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Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato: An Irish Folktale
By Jamie O'Rourke, Tomie dePaol
After his wife is injured, Jamie O’Rourke, the laziest man in Ireland, must find a way to feed his family and luckily bumps into a leprechaun with a batch of magic seeds.
–Goodreads
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Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase
By James Dean
Once there was a Cat named Pete,
Who thought nabbing some luck would be neat,
Then he happened upon
A smart leprechaun,
Who he’ll find quite tricky to beat!
PETE THE CAT, The Great Leprechaun Chase is another upbeat and whimsical children’s book by author and illustrator James Dean. The story centers around the annual St. Patrick’s Day holiday and a crazy chase after a clever leprechaun named Clover.
It seems all the children in Pete’s school classroom have just learned that having a leprechaun in your possession brings good luck; however, in order to have a leprechaun in your possession, you must first catch the leprechaun. But wait for it — the only time a leprechaun can actually be caught is on St. Patty’s Day, which happens to be the very next day!
The clock is ticking and the chase is on! These kids will need more than a lucky charm to nab Clover. In his typical methodical style of thinking, Pete applies several strategies to help his classmates in their pursuit of the elusive leprechaun — but nothing works. Suddenly, Pete comes up with the perfect crafty idea and clever Clover’s luck may have just run out!
Not only will young readers enjoy the rhythmic and energetic prose of PETE THE CAT, The Great Leprechaun Chase, they might just discover the tale shares a really nice message about the deeper meaning of luck and friendship — a real pot of Irish gold.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! Hope reading this book is lots of fun!! Submitted by staff at the Real County Public Library
Junior Books
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Daughter of the Deep
By Rick Riordan
Goodreads Choice Award
Winner for Readers’ Favorite Middle Grade & Children’s (2021)
Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana’s parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family she’s got left is her older brother, Dev, also a student at HP. (And they’ve heard all the Harry Potter jokes already, so don’t go there.)
Ana’s freshman year culminates with the class’s weekend trial at sea, the details of which have been kept secret. She only hopes she has what it’ll take to succeed. All her worries are blown out of the water when, on the bus ride to the ship, Ana and her schoolmates witness a terrible tragedy that will change the trajectory of their lives.
But wait, there’s more. The professor accompanying them informs Ana that Harding-Pencroft has been fighting a cold war against its rival schoo, Land Institute, for 150 years. Now that cold war has been turned up to a full boil, and the freshmen are in danger of becoming fish food.
In a race against deadly enemies, Ana will make amazing friends and astounding discoveries about her heritage as she puts her leadership skills to the test for the first time. — Goodreads
Young Adults Books
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The Aurora Cycle #1
Aurora Rising
By Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2019)
From the internationally bestselling authors of THE ILLUMINAE FILES comes an epic new science fiction adventure.
The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…
A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wonderingAnd Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy. — Goodreads
Adult Books
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The Lost Bookshop
By Evie Woods, Evie Gaughan
The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.
‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.’
On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found…
For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.
But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems.
—Goodreads
