Rip-Roaring Reads: Stories Featuring Dinosaurs

Dinosaur books are always popular.  This week, I'm sharing chapter book stories featuring dinosaurs.  Here are a few of our favorites . . . . 

Knights vs. Dinosaurs by Matt Phelan

With the realm at peace and few dragons about, the Knights of the Round Table are bored, so Merlin sends them to face the most terrible lizards of all --dinosaurs.

Dinosaur Trouble by Dick King-Smith

Young dinosaurs Nosy, a pterodactyl, and Banty, an apatosaurus, become friends, despite their parents' prejudices.

Dinosaur Boy by Cory Putman Oakes

Sprouting a tail and spikes over the summer before fifth grade, Sawyer, a boy with the dinosaur gene, is bullied in school, but when his tormentors begin to disappear, it is up to Sawyer, his best friend Elliot, and a mysterious new girl to rescue them from a galactically horrible fate.

More Dinosaur Stories --

The Bad Guys in Do-You-Thin-He-Saurus by Aaron Blabey

Caveboy Dave: More Scrawny Than Brawny by Aaron Reynolds

Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel Jose Older

Dino-Mike and the T.Rex Attack by Franco Aureliani

The Dinosaur Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne

The Journey Through Time by Geronimo Stilton

Mad Scientist Academy: The Dinosaur Disaster by Matthew McElligott

A Mysterious Egg by Stacy McAnulty

Saving the Stegosaurus by Rex Stone

Short Story Collections for Teens

Sometimes you just want a short story to read rather than a longer novel.  So this week I'm sharing collections of short stories for teens.  Here are a few of our favorites . . . .

Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories by Diana Wynne Jones

Contains fifteen short stories and one novella by fantasy writer Diana Wynne Jones.

Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

A collection of five spine-tingling short stories.

Out of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports edited by Dahlia Adler

An anthology about the trials and triumphs of girls in sports.

Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions edited by A.R. Capetta

This electrifying collection imagines what the world could be through the lens of technologies emerging today, posing a challenge to connect with open minds, hearts and senses in a fast-changing world.

More Short Story Collections for Teens --

The Collectors edited by A.S. King

Color Outside the Lines: Stories About Love edited by Sangu Mandanna

Faeries Never Lie: Tales to Revel In edited by Zoraida Cordova

Fools in Love: Fresh Twists on Romantic Tales edited by Ashley Herring Blake

Games Untold by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined edited by Dahlia Adler

Love on the Other Side by Nagabe

Moira's Pen by Megan Whalen Turner

Shards & Ashes edited by Melissa Marr

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: 15 Retellings of Asian Myths and Legends edited by Ellen Oh

Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunset and Sunrise edited by Laura Silverman

National Poetry Month

April celebrates National Poetry Month!  Check out one of the following books and discover some new poetry this year in celebration.

Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku by Paul B. Janeczko

A collection of senryu--similar poetry to haiku--tackles a wide range of such child-friendly subjects as baby-sitters, jumping rope, snoring parents, and Grandpa's underwear.

Bookjoy, Wordjoy by Pat Mora

An inspiring collection of Pat Mora's own glorious poems celebrating a love of words and all the ways we use and interact with them: reading, speaking, writing, and singing.

My Thoughts are Clouds: Poems for Mindfulness by Georgia Heard

A poetry collection that both illustrates what mindfulness is and encourages young, growing minds to be present.

More Books of Poetry --

Behold Our Magical Garden: Poems Fresh From a School Garden by Allan Wolf

Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems by Naomi Shahib Nye

I Wish Had a Wookie: and Other Poems for Our Galaxy by Ian Doescher

Lemonade by Bob Raczka

Love Your Amazing Self: Joyful Verses for Young Voices by Ofosu Jones-Quartey

Outside the Box by Karma Wilson

A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems by Deborah Ruddell