Wild Rumpus Books for Young Readers

It’s TIIIIIME!!!

Our 2026 Summer Reading Challenge is here! 📚 ☀️

Starting today through the end of July, you can pick up a sheet (in-store only!) and dive into the delight of reading! Something about summertime makes reading ✨ extra delicious✨.

Kids AND grown ups can participate, because we all could benefit from some loose structure, even on summer vacation!

See the link in our bio for all details, prizes, and due dates!

It’s Feature Friday! And since it is the last Friday in May, we are doing another local AAPI author pick!

This gorgeous middle grade novel in verse is from local author V.T. Bidania, based on her own family’s experience. ‘A Year Without Home’ will be in our forthcoming Summer Buyer’s Guide, and here’s what Bookseller Heather’s review has to say about it:

“‘A Year Without Home’ is a book I would have absolutely loved as a reader obsessed with kids-who-navigate-and-survive-extreme-circumstances. (If that isn’t an *official* genre already, it should be!) Based on true events after The Secret War in Laos, this story follows a young girl and her family as they flee into the jungle, hoping to escape the horrible reality plaguing their beautiful homeland. V.T. Bidania has created a lyrical and relatable novel in verse I will be thinking about for a long time to come.“ -Heather