Adventure is the theme for this year’s Summer Reading Program. This week we’re featuring books about athleticism and the Olympics. Find out how the modern Olympics began. Or read about what it’s like to compete at the highest level on a global stage by reading a memoir written by an Olympian. No matter how you choose to participate, remember: adventure begins at your library!
Adult Nonfiction
BRACE ENOUGH by Jessie Diggins (DBC 17761)
BUTTERFLY: FROM REFUGEE TO OLYMPIAN– MY STORY OF RESCUE, HOPE, AND TRIUMPH by Yusra Mardini (DB 91238)
COWBOY STUNTMAN: FROM OLYMPIC GOLD TO THE SILVER SCREEN by Dean Smith (DB 96572)
DON’T GIVE UP, DON’T GIVE IN: LESSONS FROM AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE by Louis Zamperini (DB 81537)
DREAM TEAM: HOW MICHAEL, MAGIC, LARRY, CHARLES, AND THE GREATEST TEAM OF ALL TIME CONQUERED THE WORLD AND CHANGED THE GAME OF BASKETBALL FOREVER by Jack McCallum (DB 75291)
FINISH STRONG: A FATHER’S CODE AND A SON’S PATH by Nate Ebner (DB 103430)
GAMES: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE OLYMPICS by David Goldblatt (DB 91775, BR 22356)
GOING FOR WISCONSIN GOLD: STORIES OF OUR STATE OLYMPIANS by Jessie Garcia (DBC 08262)
IT’S TRUE! IT’S TRUE! by Kurt Angle (DB 53200)
LETTERS TO A YOUNG GYMNAST by Nadia Comaneci (DB 91675)
MAKING OF A MIRACLE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE 1980 GOLD MEDAL-WINNING U.S. OLYMPIC HOCKEY TEAM by Mike Eruzione (DB 98705)
NAKED OLYMPICS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ANCIENT GAMES by Tony Perrottet (DB 58757)
OLYMPIC PRIDE, AMERICAN PREJUDICE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF 18 AFRICAN AMERICANS WHO DEFIED JIM CROW AND ADOLF HITLER TO COMPETE IN THE 1936 BERLIN OLYMPICS by Deborah Riley Draper (DB 98792)
SIXTH MAN: A MEMOIR by Andre Igodala (DB 95635)
SPEED KINGS: THE 1932 WINTER OLYMPICS AND THE FASTEST MEN IN THE WORLD by Andy Bull (DB 82853)
THREE-YEAR SWIM CLUB: THE UNTOLD STORY OF MAUI’S SUGAR DITCH KIDS AND THEIR QUEST FOR OLYMPIC GLORY by Julie Checkoway (DB 83154)
TIGERBELLE: THE WYOMIA TYUS STORY by Wyomia Tyus (DB 93189)
TOUGH GIRL: LESSONS IN COURAGE AND HEART FROM OLYMPIC GOLD TO THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO by Carolyn Wood (DBC 15867)
WATERMEN: THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN SWIMMING AND ONE YOUNG MAN’S FIGHT TO CAPTURE OLYMPIC GOLD by (DB 118959 IN PROCESS)
Adult Fiction
Español
TRANSBORDO EN MOSCÚ by Eduardo Mendoza (DB 112229)
English
BEAR PIT by Jon Cleary (DB 99168)
BONE CAGE by Angie Abdou (DBG 08478, BRG 02738)
GAMES by James Patterson (DB 85110)
GOLD by Chris Cleave (DB 75265)
HORSEWOMAN by James Patterson (DB 106198, LB 13608)
LONG JOURNEY HOME by Don Coldsmith (BR 14492)
PRIVATE GAMES by James Patterson (DB 74689)
RAT CATCHERS’ OLYMPICS by Colin Cotterill (DB 96083)
TYPHOON by Charles Cumming (DBC 26527)
Young Adult Nonfiction
GOLD IN THE WATER: THE TRUE STORY OF ORDINARY MEN AND THEIR EXTRAORDINARY DREAM OF OLYMPIC GLORY by P. H. Mullen (DB 56039)
GRACE, GOLD AND GLORY: MY LEAP OF FAITH by Gabrielle Douglas (DB 76347)
INAUGURAL BALLERS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE FIRST US WOMEN’S OLYMPIC BASKETBALL TEAM by Andrew Maraniss (DB 110512, LB 14383)
WORK WITH WHAT YOU GOT: A MEMOIR by Zion Clark (DB 117752 IN PROCESS)
Young Adult Fiction
EVERY REASON WE SHOULDN’T by Sara Fujimura (DB 99186)
Juvenile Nonfiction
AS FAST AS HER: DREAM BIG, BREAK BARRIERS, ACHIEVE SUCCESS by Kendall Coyne (DBC 26533) Grades 6-9
BOBBIE ROSENFELD: THE OLYMPIAN WHO COULD DO EVERYTHING by Anne Dublin (BRG 00872) Grades 3-6
COURAGE TO SOAR: A BODY IN MOTION, A LIFE IN BALANCE by Simone Biles (DB 103602)
FIERCE: HOW COMPETING FOR MYSELF CHANGED EVERYTHING by Aly Raisman (DB 89796)
STORY OF THE OLYMPICS by Dave Anderson (DB 50298) Grades 5-8
WOMEN OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS by Nathan Aaseng (DB 54640) Grades 5-8
Juvenile Fiction
GOLD MEDAL MESS: MVP BOOK 1 by David A. Kelly (DB 87575) Grades 2-4
HOUR OF THE OLYMPICS: MAGIC TREE HOUSE, BOOK 16 by Mary Pope Osborne (DB 54426, BR 23037, en español DB 110933) Grades 2-4
MYSTERY OF THE MASKED MEDALIST: KUDO KIDS by Maia Shibutani (DB 100823)
