Staff picks for the 2017 Summer Reading Challenge. Enjoy great reads and fun activities. Log your progress and earn badges and prizes along the way!
![Book cover for Afterworlds](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/18367581.jpg?itok=uXnCqsGF)
Afterworlds
![Book cover for Barakamon Vol. 1](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/03e6f5b62c80b6bf97b2fd9209d32307.jpg?itok=JOCa9cLN)
Barakamon Vol. 1
![Book cover for Brief Histories of Everyday Objects](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/ee9b7a2ebac1283f7316ff5dcc845d87.jpg?itok=XyC9GT_A)
Brief Histories of Everyday Objects
![Book cover for Channel Zero: The Complete Collection](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/de7cf142a26bb8bb4a84da5f0a1d5611.jpg?itok=vJBdl_42)
Channel Zero: The Complete Collection
![Book cover for Deadly Design](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/6a1a7709b1b426cb6af5aa98368617f9.jpg?itok=2z5Wq-p0)
Deadly Design
![Book cover for Genius: The Game](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/c6a059596adf640f05c38341fd8f9766.jpg?itok=bIV1ziUZ)
Genius: The Game
![Book cover for Iron Cast](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/91c796722ef230c2abee3160aa794e2b.jpg?itok=S6VFk6lb)
Iron Cast
![Book cover for Keep Her: A Novel](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/d0a11d12ebcc26273cffec2f1454b5ff.jpg?itok=vKPuyPim)
Keep Her: A Novel
![Book cover for Miles from Nowhere](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/490e6b2f475fdb46c4f368b8f888e560.jpg?itok=trACAEgJ)
Miles from Nowhere
![Book cover for My Neighbor Seki](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/dd3467431d84d2558eef481d29095527.jpg?itok=aNUNcghR)
My Neighbor Seki
![Book cover for Original Fake](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/a271b6cf1275256e1d0593105b40d2c2.jpg?itok=QfCCmwXv)
Original Fake
![Book cover for Piper Perish](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/bab464c0f29c0688f133217f60898a74.jpg?itok=1E4xV1fu)
Piper Perish
![Book cover for Shadowshaper](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/f52dc301a192dfbb663bde265142d531.jpg?itok=d3mcEGPI)
Shadowshaper
![Book cover for Tetris: The Games People Play](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/10fc098cbc0b5134970ba2a6c4b716aa.jpg?itok=uzlpNo9u)
Tetris: The Games People Play
![Book cover for The Truth Commission](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/6f8d2832a9637297406ba918087c3972.jpg?itok=B0Du5oQF)
The Truth Commission
![Book cover for The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/f0acfa1dfcebc2aebae2a18cbb9ef7b7.jpg?itok=D_6E6kGo)
The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy
When a sleazy reality tv show called For Art's Sake starts filming at their high school, four teens write a subversive epic poem inspired by Ezra Pound's Cantos as a protest against it. But when one of their own winds up being cast in the show, the others are left feeling betrayed. Fans of John Green will love this funny book filled with eccentric characters, brave gerbils, art, and big ideas.
![Book cover for You're Welcome, Universe](https://lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/b8e30c1a888978dfbce93c1e40e90a8c.jpg?itok=Y3KhBTe1)
You're Welcome, Universe
When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural. Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a 'mainstream' school in the suburbs, where she’s treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art. Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off—and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war.