SSYRA 2024-2025 Grades 3-5

When Sea Becomes Sky

By: Gillian McDunn
Narrated by: Brenna Larsen
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Bloomsbury presents When Sea Becomes Sky by Gillian McDunn, read by Brenna Larsen.

In this heartfelt summer story, acclaimed author Gillian McDunn paints a stunning portrait of the bond of siblings and the love we’ll always carry with us.

Bex and Davey's summer in the saltmarsh is different this year, thanks to the record-breaking drought. Even... Read more

The Shelterlings

By: Sarah Beth Durst
Narrated by: Imani Parks
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

A group of magical misfit animals learns to appreciate their seemingly useless powers—and themselves—when they work together to thwart a villain’s attempt to steal their magic.Holly, a grey squirrel, and her animal friends have accepted that they will never be wizards’ familiars. Though they are each magical, their powers are so offbeat—Holly... Read more

Penny Draws a Best Friend

Penny Draws: Book #1

By: Sara Shepard
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

A humorous, heartfelt, highly illustrated new middle grade series about friendship, feelings, and finding your people, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sara Shepard.

Why does the cubby room always smell like farts? Who etched the words "I Am Bug Man" inside my desk? Why is Mom suddenly acting like she has a secret?

Nobody said starting... Read more

Future Hero

Future Hero

By: Remi Blackwood
Narrated by: Ashley Joseph
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

The start of a thrilling series about a boy who finds a portal to a legendary world in his local barbershop . . . and learns he’s the hero they’ve been waiting for. For younger fans of Black Panther and Last Gate of the Emperor!Jarell has never quite known where he belongs. He’s ignored at home and teased at school for wanting to draw instead of... Read more

Home Away From Home

By: Cynthia Lord
Narrated by: Brenna Larson
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

From Newbery Honor Winner Cynthia Lord, a brilliant story about how to find home when everything around us is changing.Mia and her mom visit Grandma in Maine every summer, but this year Mia is going alone. Her mom will stay behind to get their house ready to sell. It'll be a new start, she says, after the divorce.Mia doesn't want a new start.... Read more

Manatee Summer

By: Evan Griffith
Narrated by: Mark Turetsky
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

In this poignant middle grade contemporary debut that New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate calls “by turns heartbreaking and heart-healing,” Evan Griffith beautifully captures all the tenderness and uncertainty that come with caring for family, friends, and the natural world.Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for... Read more

The Grip

By: Marcus Stroman
Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

In this first book in the semi-autobiographical middle grade series from MLB pitcher Marcus Stroman, a young baseball player learns that perfect games only come with a lot of practice—and some strikeouts.

Young Marcus Stroman is determined to make it to the highest playing level he can, despite every coach telling him he’s not tall enough to... Read more

Finally Seen

By: Kelly Yang
Narrated by: Cindy Kay & Kelly Yang
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes a “involving, realistic” (Booklist, starred review) middle grade novel about a young girl who leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, and learns about family, friendship, and the power of being finally seen.

My sister got to grow up with my parents.... Read more

The Cursed Moon

By: Angela Cervantes
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

“One horror-loving kid must contend with his real-life fears encroaching on his newly comfortable life. Angela Cervantes delicately captures the uncertainty of being a kid—especially one who just started to feel safe—with her atmospheric generational ghost story. Read more

The Big Sting

By: Rachelle Delaney
Narrated by: Justin Miller
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

A visit to Leo's grandfather's farm turns upside down when his grandmother's beehives are stolen. A light-hearted and funny middle-grade novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Lynda Mullaly Hunt.

Eleven-year-old Leo is an "armchair adventurer." This, according to Dad, means he'd choose adventures in books or video games over real-life experiences.... Read more