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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
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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 
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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
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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 
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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
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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
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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
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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​
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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
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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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    Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

    After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

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    Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.
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