Staff Picks

Kids: Adventure Begins at Your Library

June Staff Picks List

  • Good Night, Oppy!


  • The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian: The Fuzzy Apocalypse


  • Packing for Mars for Kids


  • The Book of Blast Off! 15 Real–Life Space Missions


  • Meanwhile Back on Earth...: Finding Our Place Through Time and Space


  • The Last Cuentista


  • Hush, Little Rocket


  • Moon! Earth's Best Friend


  • Space Boy and the Space Pirate


  • Jack Blasts Off!


  • Once Upon a Space-Time!


  • U is for Universe


  • Oliver's Great Big Universe


  • Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race


  • Life on Mars


  • A Rover's Story


  • Super Space Weekend: Adventures in Astronomy


  • Pete the Cat: Out of This World!


  • The Lion of Mars


Teens: YA Sci-Fi

June Staff Picks List

  • Ignite the Stars


  • The Weight of the Stars


  • Goddess in the Machine


  • Descender Book One: Tin Stars


  • Aurora Rising


  • Pet


  • The Infinity Courts


  • Heart of Iron


  • Mirage


  • Gearbreakers


  • Pangu's Shadow


  • Bloom


  • Warcross


  • Space Boy Volume 1


  • Space Battle Lunchtime Volume One: Lights, Camera, Snacktion!


  • Want


  • Once & Future


  • Skyward


  • Leviathan


  • Across a Field of Starlight


Adults: Cosmic Chronicles

June Staff Picks List

  • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion


  • A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts


  • When the Earth had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky


  • The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to the Extraterrestrial Future


  • Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space


  • The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World