Heroic Reads

Super-Heroic Reads

Howard County

Library System

Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals.

SP: Legendary Rank

Last of the Giants

Super Power:

Extra Lives

Passenger Pigeon

Tasmanian Tiger

Planet Tad

Phineas Gage A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

by John Fleischman

by Tim Carvell

Both were orphaned young.

Both were brilliant students.

Both studied law.

Both were young officers under George Washington.

Both became war heroes.

Both served in our nation's early government.

The Duel

The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Why did they face each other at dawn one morning with pistols?

by Judith St. George

Why fight a duel to the death?

The 9 Lives of Alexander Baddenfield

"Journey to the wave-battered coast of the Pacific Northwest to meet some of the engineers and scientists working to harness the punishing force of our oceans, one of the nature’s powerful and renewable energy sources.

by John Bemelmans Marciano

With an array of amazing devices that cling to the bottom of the sea floor and surf on the crests of waves, these explorers are using a combination of science, imagination, and innovation to try to capture wave energy in the hopes of someday powering our lives in a cleaner, more sustainable way."

The Next Wave:

The Quest to Harness the Power of the Oceans

The Lost Sun

by Tessa Gratton

Percy Jackson read-a-like!

Come for the story, stay for the candy!

Instead of states, we have Kingstates

Instead of Carl's Junior, there's Jarl Burger.

Instead of a White House, we have a White Hall.

Instead of the NFL, there's the National Stoneball.

Instead of English, the language is Anglish.

by Elizabeth Raush

Scientists in the Field

Super Power: Imagination

“Word has reached us that a mighty wizard has arisen from the squabbles of Arcanum in Estervary.”

"One stands supreme amid the ruins of his rivals and is able to act unchecked – at least for now. He has turned his eyes westward, with thoughts of war and conquest.”

Super Power: Flight

“Or shall we ride forth to meet him, to turn him aside before he comes within a hundred leagues? For myself, and for our people, I choose the later.”

So begins the LARP adventure of a group of friends: newbie Allison, TJ, Chuck, Simon, Jimmy, and Stu. It's great imaginative fun, until . . .

they find themselves in a real hobbit-like hut, with real goats, being shot at with real pointy arrows!

It's All Fun and Games

Wayne Kovok is descended of Dalton war heroes from the Revolution to the present.

Luckily, they can access their avatar's magic and skills!

by Dave Barrett

Now the trick is to survive!

Their legacy--honor and duty, and unfortunately, sacrifice.

Tragically, his Uncle Reed dies in service.

Knucklehead

by Jon Scieszka

Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong

by Prudence Shen & Faith Erin Hicks

Lost Series

Returning from the Arlington funeral, their plane undergoes intense turbulence,

by Tod Olson

"In 1942, a B-17 bomber runs out of fuel on a secret wartime mission and heads for a crash-landing in the Pacific Ocean. Eight men. Three inflatable rafts. Sixty-eight million square miles of ocean. What will it take to make it back alive?

With every journey comes a risk, and from that risk, some of the greatest adventures in history. LOST in the Pacific is the first book in an exciting new series of narrative nonfiction." -- Tod Olson website

a hole tears through the side of the plane,

by Karen Harrington

Wayne reaches for his mother to save her,

only to lose hold of Uncle Reed's funeral flag.

Almost Astronauts 13 Women Who Dared to Dream

When he wakes, he's down to one eyebrow, sporting a scar in the shape of a giant L scar on his face, and unable to speak.

by Tanya Lee Stone