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READING ON THE GO
Find the perfect page-turner for your summer travels
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Whether you’re lounging by the pool, waiting for a plane or stuck in the car, summer travel offers the perfect opportunity to catch up on reading.
For grown-ups, vacations offer much-needed down time to sit back with a good book. It’s never too late to catch up to that ambitious reading goal you set earlier this year.
And for little ones, summer reading is an important tool to hone their skills while school is out. A good book — for reading, crafting or coloring — is a sure re way to reduce screen time while traveling.
Here are nine titles curated by local booksellers at The Bookworm to add to your family’s summer travel reading list:
FOR OLDER READERS
by Emily Henry
Nora Stephens is a cutthroat literary agent with a beloved little sister with whom she agrees to go on a trip. But instead of picnics in meadows or run-ins with a handsome doctor, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a brooding editor from back in the city. As they are thrown together again and again — in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow — what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.
by Kate Russo
Artist Bennett Driscoll is a 55 year old who’s wife has left him, he hasn’t sold a painting in two years, and his gallery wants to stop selling his work. He’s forced to move into his artist’s studio and list his house on a popular vacation rental site. He struggles to nd purpose. That all changes when three guests — lonely American Alicia; tortured artist Emma; and cautiously optimistic divorcée Kirstie —unwittingly unlock the pieces of himself that have been lost to him for too long.
by Juneau Black
Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The fox has a nose for news, so when she catches wind that a death might be a murder, she resolves to get to the bottom of the case. As she stirs up still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and discovers that additional lives are in jeopardy. It seems someone in the Hollow will do anything to keep her from solving the murder, and it will take all of Vera’s cunning and quickness to crack the case.
by Cara Black
Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and daughter, she is armed with a ri e, a vendetta, and a erce resolve. But she has no formal spy training. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, she is on the run for her life — all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up.
FOR THE KIDS
By Garth Nix
Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father. Her search begins with her mother’s possibly misremembered surnames, a reading room ticket and a silver cigarette case engraved with what might be a coat of arms. Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller who is part of an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic Old World when it intrudes on the modern world. Merlin has a quest of his own, to nd the Old World entity who used criminals to kill his mother. As he investigates, his quest strangely overlaps with Susan’s.
“100 SUPER PLANES TO FOLD AND FLY”
Featuring brand new paper plane models, simple fail-safe, step-bystep folding instructions and a suite of futuristic designs inspired by nextgeneration planes and spaceplanes, this book is perfect for young and old fans of paper planes books.
“MOST OF THE BETTER NATURAL THINGS IN THE WORLD”
by Dave Eggers & Angel Chang
A tiger carries a dining room chair on her back. But why? Where is she going? With just one word per page, in lush, color-rich landscapes, we learn about the features that make up our world: an archipelago, a dune, an isthmus, a lagoon. Across them all, the tiger roams. An enigmatic investigation of our world’s most beautiful places with beautiful illustrations.
This busy coloring book is full of magical friends. Each page features a picture with bold outlines to help young artists improve their coloring skills. They can ride on a unicorn; meet a narwhal and a sea star; chase a friendly dragon; discover a mermaid and treasure at the bottom of the ocean; share sweet treats with fairies and elves; and make friends with the sh in the ocean.
by Jean Marzollo
The popular I Spy series presents photographed setups of carefully arranged objects with riddles underneath each picture that encourage children to nd particular objects in the photo. This series entry includes photographs that the author and photographer decided were their favorites from previous books, and substitutes more dif cult riddles for the original ones, challenging children who like a truly vigorous search.
Find these titles and many more by shopping locally at The Bookworm. Located at 90th and Center Streets, The Bookworm is an independent, family-owned bookstore with more than 6,000-square-feet of space. The Bookworm offers an excellent selection of books, an outstanding children’s section and friendly, knowledgeable staff who know the books they sell. Learn more at www.bookwormomaha.com.
