Titles with connections to the 2026 Summer Reading theme: Plant A Seed, Read, with descriptions from the publishers.
- Growing Green: A First Book of Gardening by Daniela Sosa
This easy-to-follow gardening book contains 15 simple (and delicious!) projects for budding young gardeners. - All About Plants! (Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files #2) by Andrea Beaty
What do plants eat? Why do some plants have flowers and others don’t? What’s the tallest plant? - Prunella by Beth Ferry
Prunella cultivates a poisonous garden to keep people away until a curious weed pops up, forcing her to decide between uprooting this tentative new friendship or allowing it to blossom. - Are You a Cheeseburger? by Monica Arnaldo
Grub the raccoon wonders what Seed will grow, hoping it’s Grub’s favorite food, mouthwatering cheeseburgers. - The Song of Orphan’s Garden by Nicole M. Hewitt
In a rapidly freezing world, 13-year-old Lyriana and her younger brother believe their only hope for survival is to find the Orphan’s Garden, while the Giant boy who created the garden must overcome his distrust of humans to help save it. - Isabel in Bloom by Mae Respicio
Making friends in a new city, and new country, is hard for twelve-year-old Filipina-American Isabel, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school helps her find her way. - The Garden Just Beyond by Lindsey Leavitt
Fourteen-year-old Maggie and her eccentric family harvest crops that alter emotions, but their secret and magical dinner parties come under threat when a mysterious stranger moves to town. - Moongarden by Michelle A. Barry
Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the grave.
