June 2026

Monthly Themed Reading Lists for Tweens

Themed lists curated by your local librarians. Discover and rediscover books in the local collection based on monthly reading themes!

Go Back in Time

Click on the book images below to learn more about each book and even reserve a copy with your Perry Public Library Card!

Read these books that take place during different periods in American history.

  • A horse named Sky         

  • A time for courage : the suffragette diary of Kathleen Bowen      

  • Early Sunday morning : the Pearl Harbor diary of Amber Billows

  • Hear my sorrow : the diary of Angela Denoto, a shirtwaist worker                             

  • Kaiulani : the people's princess  

  • Koda                     

  • Makoons            

  • Rush Revere and the brave pilgrims : time-travel adventures with exceptional

  • The hero two doors down : based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend    

  • The winter of red snow : the diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777-1778