RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. What would you do if the perfect science fair project suddenly came to life? In this illustrated novel, a lonely fifth grader named Maya discovers a forgotten homemade robot just when she needs a friend the most. With her best friends in a different class for the first time, Maya is on her own, and this unexpected robot companion might change everything. Could a robot be exactly the friend she never knew she needed?

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. Have you ever felt like you just don't fit in somewhere new? In this story, twelve-year-old Emmy moves to a new city and school, where she feels totally lost, until a coding class leads her to something unexpected.

RIF Summer Camp: Reading Explorers Badge. Four very different kids wake up on what seems like an ordinary day, never expecting that by the end of it, their lives will be completely tangled together. When a cruel prank leaves Virgil trapped at the bottom of a well, the clock starts ticking, and the others must find the courage and determination they never knew they had.

RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. When Mika starts fifth grade, her perfectly ordered world gets messy fast, especially when her quirky math teacher assigns a journal that mixes numbers with art.

Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the...

Eleven-year-old Simon Barnes dreams of becoming a world-famous rapper that everyone calls Notorious D.O.G. But for now, he's just a Chicago fifth grader who's small for his age and afraid to use his voice.

Kunu is from the Penobscot Tribe located on Indian Island in Maine. They have a deep tradition in...

"If only you'd been a boy," said Lizzie Cady's father when she won a prize for Latin. But Lizzie...

Explorers investigate places they have never been before. These explorers might take a while to make...

RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 1984. A collection of spooky stories, creepy songs, and eerie legends filled with ghosts, skeletons, haunted houses, and mysterious happenings. Paired with haunting illustrations, these classic tales are perfect for readers who enjoy a good scare.