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Oceans & Ocean Animals

6/10/2022

Aquarela, BLU
Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs, Juli Berwald, print
Galápagos: Preserving Darwin's Legacy, Tui De Roy, print
Ocean: A Global Odyssey, Sylvia A. Earle, print
Great White Odyssey, DVD
Moby-Duck, Donovan Hohn, print | ebook
War of the Whales, Joshua Horwitz, print | ebook | eaudio
Invasion of the Killer Whales, DVD
Citizens of the Sea, Nancy Knowlton, print
A Life among Whales, DVD
Octopus Seahorse Jellyfish, David Liittschwager, print
Ocean Odyssey, BLU
The Encyclopedia of Sharks, Steve Parker, print
Reef Rescue, DVD
Shark Drunk, Morten Strøksnes, print
Coral Reef Curiosities, Chuck Weikert, print
Below the Edge of Darkness, Edith Widder, print
Wild Deep: Seven Continents, DVD | BLU

Fiction: Islands & Coasts

6/10/2022

The Last Train to Key West, Chanel Cleeton, print | ebook | eaudio
Sweetland, Michael Crummey, print | ebook
Claire of the Sea Light, Edwidge Danticat, print | ebook | eaudio
Cantoras, Carolina de Robertis, print | ebook
The Lightkeepers, Abby Geni, print
They All Fall Down, Rachel Howzell Hall, print | ebook | eaudio
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
Our Homesick Songs, Emma Hooper, print | ebook
Southernmost, Silas House, print | ebook
Allie & Bea, Catherine Ryan Hyde, print
Murder on the Rocks, Karen MacInerney, print | ebook | eaudio
The Lighthouse, Paco Roca, print
The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See, print | ebook | eaudio
Something in the Water, Catherine Steadman, print | ebook | eaudio
The Light between Oceans, M.L. Stedman, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
The Shark Club, Ann Kidd Taylor, print | ebook | eaudio
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt, print | ebook | eaudio
Galápagos, Kurt Vonnegut, print
Adé: a Love Story, Rebecca Walker, print

Water: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels

6/9/2022

Chapter Books

Beyond the Bright Sea, Lauren Wolk, print | ebook | eaudio
Bird Lake Moon, Kevin Henkes, print | ebook
The Case of Windy Lake, Michael Hutchison, print
Dark Waters, Katherine Arden, print | ebook
The Deepest Breath, Meg Grehan, print | ebook | eaudio
Fish On, Kevin Lovegreen, print
Josephine Against the Sea, Shakirah Bourne, print
The Last Map Maker, Christina Soontornvat, print
Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves, L.M. Elliot, print
Northwind, Gary Paulsen, print | ebook | eaudio
Orphan Island, Laurel Snyder, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
Paddle to the Sea, Holling Clancy Holling, print
The Puffin Keeper, Michael Morpurgo, print
Stone River Crossing, Tim Tingle, print
Tides of Mutiny, Rebecca Rode, print
The Turtle of Michigan, Naomi Shihab Nye, print
The Water Bears, Kimberly Baker, print
A Whale of the Wild, Roseann Parry, print
Willa and the Whale, Chad Morris, print

Graphic Novels

The Aquanaut, Dan Santat, print | ebook
Sunny Makes a Splash, Jennifer Holm, print | ebook
Tidesong, Wendy Xu, print | ebook
Treasure in the Lake, Jason Pamment, print

Ships, Pirates & Islands

6/9/2022

Anote’s Ark, DVD
Rebels at Sea, Eric Jay Dolin, print
438 Days, Jonathan Franklin, print | eaudio
Fifty Ships that Changed the Course of History, Ian Graham, print
Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl, print
Pirate Hunters, Robert Kurson, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick, print | ebook | eaudio
The Atlas of Shipwrecks & Treasure, Nigel Pickford, print
Pirates! Scourge of the Seven Seas, DVD
Flying Cloud, David W. Shaw, print
In the Kingdom of Ice, Hampton Sides, print | audio CD | ebook | eaudio
Monturiol’s Dream, Matthew Stewart, print
Sealand, Dylan Taylor-Lehman, print
Born to be Hanged, Keith Thomson, print
Sea People, Christina Thompson, print
Six Frigates, Ian W. Toll, print
Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell, print
Atlantic, Simon Winchester, print | ebook | eaudio
Pacific, Simon Winchester, print | audio CD

Water: Board Books

6/8/2022

Boats Are Busy, Sara Gillingham, print
Fourteen Animals That Are Definitely Not an Octopus, Gabe Pyle, print
Good Night Boats, Adam Gamble, print
Goodnight, Seahorse, Carly Allen-Fletcher, print
Hooray for Fish!, Lucy Cousins, print
A House for Hermit Crab, Eric Carle, print
Ocean Creatures, Catherine D. Hughes, print
Octopus Opposites, Stella Blackstone, print
Splash!, Roberta Grobel Intrater, print
Splish-Splash, Nicola Smee, print
The Sun Shines on the Sea, Michael Slack, print
What Is a Narwhal?, Ginger Swift, print
Who’s Hiding on the River?, Katharine McEwen, print

Great Lakes & American Waterways

6/8/2022

Door Way, Norbert Blei, print
The River of Kings, Taylor Brown, print | ebook | eaudio
Once Upon a River, Bonnie Jo Campbell, print
The Living Great Lakes, Jerry Dennis, print | ebook
The Source, Martin Doyle, print
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, Dan Egan, print | ebook | eaudio
Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region, Wayne Grady, print
Raft of Stars, Andrew J. Graff, print | large print | playaway | ebook | eaudio
Great Lakes Chronicle: Essays on Coastal Wisconsin, print
Milwaukee: A City Built on Water, John Gurda, print | ebook
The River Swimmer, Jim Harrison, print | eaudio
Iron Lake, William Kent Krueger, print | large print | ebook | eaudio
Sustaining Lake Superior, Nancy Langston, print | ebook
Return to Wake Robin, Marnie O. Mamminga, print | audio CD | ebook
Where the River Ends, Charles Martin, print | ebook | eaudio
Perimeter: A Contemporary Portrait of Lake Michigan, Kevin J. Miyazaki, print | ebook
Niagara Falls, DVD
Lake Superior, Grace Lee Nute, print
Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages, Sara Rath, print | ebook
Great Lakes Lighthouses, Bruce Roberts & Ray Jones, print
Mighty Fitz, Michael Schumacher, print | ebook
Death Stalks Door County, Patricia Skalka, print | ebook
Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain, print | ebook | eaudio
Wisconsin Lighthouses, Ken & Barb Wardius, print | ebook

Float Your Boat: Teens

6/7/2022

FICTION

The Islands at the End of the World, Austin Aslan, print
Skin of the Sea, Natasha Bowen, print | ebook | eaudio
Freedom Swimmer, Wai Chim, print
Wall of Water, Kristin F. Johnson, print
Luck of the Titanic, Stacey Lee, print | ebook | eaudio
Sink or Swim, Tash McAdam, print | ebook
Where the World Ends, Geraldine McCaughrean, print | ebook | eaudio
Not a Drop to Drink, Mindy McGinnis, print | ebook
A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow, print | ebook | eaudio
Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman, print | ebook | eaudio
The Water Wars, Cameron Stracher, print | ebook
Breathe and Count Back from Ten, Natalia Sylvester, coming soon
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, print | ebook

GRAPHIC NOVELS

The Daughters of Ys, M.T. Anderson & Jo Rioux, print
Princess Jellyfish, Akiko Higashimura, print
Children of the Sea, Daisuke Igarashi, print
Queen of the Sea, Dylan Meconis, print
The Magic Fish, Trung Le Nguyen, print | ebook
The Girl from the Sea, Molly Knox Ostertag, print | ebook
Swamp Thing, Maggie Stiefvater, print
Triton of the Sea, Osamu Tezuka, print
This One Summer, Jillian Tamaki, print | ebook

NONFICTION

Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation, Candy J. Cooper and Marc Aronson, print | eaudio
Into the Deep: Science, Technology, and the Quest to Protect the Ocean, Christy Peterson, print

Water: Nonfiction

6/7/2022

Animals

Alien Ocean Animals, Rosie Colosi, print | ebook
Coral Reefs, Jill Esbaum, print
Ink: 100 Fun Facts about Octopuses, Squid and More, Stephanie Warren Drimmer, print
Jellyfish, Derek Zobel, print
Platypuses, Karen Kenney, print
Ocean Anatomy, Julia Rothman, print
Otters Love to Play, Jonathan London, print
Narwhal, Grace Hansen, print
Sea Horses, Christina Leaf, print
Sea Stars, Derek Zobel, print
Whales: Diving into the Unknown (Science Comics), Casey Zakroff, print

Boats and Ships

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie: The Complete Book of Nautical Codes, Sara Gillingham, print
Capsized: The Forgotten Story of the SS Eastland Disaster, Patricia Sutton, print
Crossing on Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to the New World, David Macaulay, print
Great Ships on the Great Lakes, Catherine Green, print | ebook
Kate’s Light, Elizabeth Spires, print
This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, Dave Eggers, print
Sport: Ship Dog of the Great Lakes, Pamela Cameron, print

Oceans & Other Habitats

Atlas of Ocean Adventures, Emily Hawkins, print
The Fascinating Ocean Book for Kids, Hestermann, coming soon
Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story, Thomas Yezerski, print
The Sockeye Mother, Brett Huson, print
The Tide Pool Waits, Candace Fleming, print

Poetry

In the Swim: Poems and Paintings, Douglas Florian, print
Sail Away, Langston Hughes & Ashley Bryan, print
Traveling the Blue Road: Poems of the Sea, print

Scientists

The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding Coral Reefs, Kate Messner & Matthew Forsythe, print
Ocean Speaks: Marie Tharp and the Map that Moved the Earth, Jess Keating, print

Survival Stories

Hurricane: My Story of Resilience, Salvador Gomez-Colon, print
The Paper Boat, Thao Lam, print
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, Nikole Hannah-Jones, print | ebook | eaudio

Things to Make and Do

Fishing in a Brook: Angling Activities for Kids, G. Lawson Drinkard, print
Kids' Guide to Fishing, Dave Maas, print
Sea Creatures in Origami, John Montroll, print

Water Cycle, Pollution & Conservation

Cast Away: Poems for Our Time, Naomi Shihab Nye, print | eaudio
Ducks Overboard: A True Story of Plastic in Our Oceans, Markus Motum, print
Every Last Drop: Bringing Clean Water Home, Michelle Mulder, print
Nibi Emosaawdang, Joanne Robertson, print
The Ocean in Your Bathtub, Seth Fishman, print
We Are Water Protectors, Carole Lindstrom, print | ebook | eaudio

Fiction: Ships & Oceans

6/7/2022

White Plague, James Abel, print | large print | ebook
Meg, Steve Alten, print | eaudio
The Blue, Lucy Clarke, print
In Waves, A.J. Dungo, print
Into the Drowning Deep, Mira Grant, print | ebook
Middle Passage, Charles Johnson, print
The Unknown Shore, Patrick O’Brian, print
The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje, print | ebook | eaudio
The Whiteness of the Whale, David Poyer, print
The Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan, print | audio CD | eaudio
The Terror, Dan Simmons, print | ebook | eaudio
The Deep, Rivers Solomon, print | ebook | eaudio
Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson, print | ebook | eaudio
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne, print | several ebook & eaudio editions available
The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk, print

Water: Picture Books

6/6/2022

Almost Nothing Yet Everything, Hiroshi Osada, print
And Then Came Hope, Stephen Savage, print
At the Pond, Geraldo Valério, print
Bea By the Sea, Jo Byatt, print
Boats: Speeding! Sailing! Cruising!, Patricia Hubbell, print
Boats Afloat!, George Ella Lyon, print
Busy Boats, Tony Mitton, print
Canoe Days, Gary Paulsen, print
Crab Cake: Turning the Tide Together, Andrea Tsurumi, print
The Coral Kingdom, Laura Knowles, print
Deep Underwater, Irene Luxbacher, print
Float, Daniel Miyares, print
Heads and Tails Underwater, John Canty, print
I Am Not a Fish!, Peter Raymundo, print
I Am the Shark, Joan Holub, print
I Love You Blue, Barroux, print
Lightship, Brian Floca, print
Me and You and the Red Canoe, Jean Penziwol, print
Mighty Tug, Alyssa Satin Capucilli, print
My First Day, Nguyen Quang Phung, print
The Mysterious Stones, Enrique Pérez Díaz, print
Not Quite Narwhal, Jessie Sima, print | ebook
Nya’s Long Walk, Linda Sue Park, print
Off to See the Sea, Nikki Grimes, print
One Frozen Lake, Deborah Jo Larson, print
Oona, Kelly DiPucchio, print
Out into the Big Wide Lake, Paul Harbridge, print
River, Elisha Cooper, print
Seagulls Soar, April Pulley Sayre, print
Secret of the Magic Pearl, Elisa Sabatinelli, print
Shin-chi's canoe, Nicola I. Campbell, print
Ship Shapes, Stella Blackstone, print
Spencer and Vincent, the Jellyfish Bothers, Tony Johnston, print
Tallulah: Mermaid of the Great Lakes, Denise Brennan-Nelson, print | ebook
The Town Is by the Sea, Joanne Schwartz, print
There Was an Old Sailor, Claire Saxby, print
The Wanderer, Peter van den Ende, print
Water Is Water, Miranda Paul, print
Water Rolls, Water Rises, Pat Mora, print
Whale Trails, Lesa Cline-Ransome, print

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