Our Trade-in hiatus will be from June 16th through the 30th. We will resume taking in books and games on July 1st.

The store will be open for shopping during that time period.

WE ARE TAKING IN BOOKS - HOWEVER - CALL FIRST TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE SPACE FOR YOU!
We have been filling up available space for holding bags and boxes very quickly. We will do our best to accomidate you.

Summer Reading Recommendations

#1 Read a HISTORICAL FICTION book.:

  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
  • Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
  • The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
  • Any volume of the Dear America or My America series

#2 A book that has been TURNED INTO A MOVIE you have seen before or after you read the book.

  • Any of the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling
  • Any of the  Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins
  • How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
  • Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
  • Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

#3 Read a SCIENCE-FICTION book.

  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Feed by M.T. Anderson
  • The Maze Runner by James Dashner
  • The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

#4 A fiction or non-fiction book about SOMEONE WITH A VERY DIFFERENT LIFE FROM YOURS.

  • Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
  • Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
  • Refugee by Alan Gratz
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
  • Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
  • The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba

#5 Read a book that has NOT BECOME A GRAPHIC NOVEL.

  • The One and Only Ivan and its sequel The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
  • The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
  • The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
  • Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
  • Spy School or Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs

#6 Read a book TOLD FROM AN ANIMAL'S POINT OF VIEW.

  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
  • Into the Wild: the first book of the Warriors series by Erin Hunter
  • The One and Only Ivan and its sequel The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
  • Bunnicula and any of its sequels by Deborah and James Howe
  • The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
  • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

#7 Read a book that has WON AN AWARD.

  • The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
  • The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  • Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
  • Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
  • When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

#8 Read or reread a book YOU REALLY LOVE.

YOU tell US!

#9 Read a “CLASSIC” BOOK THAT IS MORE THAN 50 YEARS OLD OR ASK A PARENT FOR THEIR FAVORITE BOOK FROM WHEN THEY WERE YOUR AGE and read it.

  • Call of the Wild or White Fang by Jack London
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • The Secret Garden or A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

#10 Read a BOOK OF POETRY OR A BOOK TOLD ENTIRELY IN POETRY.

  • Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
  • The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
  • Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha La
  • Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson or any of the "Poetry for Young People" series
  • The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes