Summer is almost here! I’m guessing you didn’t need me to tell you that. 🤪 But maybe you will be interested in some of the books I’ve listed below. These titles are ones that have multiple starred reviews. Some of them I’ve read and some of them I haven’t…yet. I hope you’ll find a few that you can immerse yourself in once summer hits. Enjoy!
Picture Books
The Blue House by Phoebe Wahl
Bubbles…up! By Jacqueline Davies
If You Want a Friend in Washington by Erin McGill
The Museum of Everything by Lynne Rae Perkins
Outside, Inside by LeUyen Pham
The Paper Boat by That Lam
The Rock from the Sky by Jon Klassen
See the Cat by David LaRochelle
Together We Grow by Susan Vaught
We Will Live in the Forest Again by Gianna Marino
Chapter Books
All Thirteen: the Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat (grades 4-7)
Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston (grades 3-7)
Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson (grades 4-8)
Billy Miller Makes a Wish by Kevin Henkes (grades 3 and up)
The Canyon’s Edge by Dusti Bowling (grades 4-7)
Class Act by Jerry Craft (grades 4-8)
Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai (grades 4-7)
The Last Mirror on the Left (book 2) by L. R. Giles (grades 3-5)
One Jar of Magic by Corey Ann Haydu (grades 4-7)
Race to the Bottom of the Earth by Rebecca Barone (grades 4-8)
Saucy by Cynthia Kadohata (grades 3-6)
The Thirteenth Fairy by Melissa De la Cruz (grades 4-7)
Twins by Varian Johnson (grades 3-7)
Ways to Grow Love (book 2) by Renee Watson (grades 3-5)
Middle School
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Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson (grades 5 and up)
Chance by Uri Shulevitz (grades 5-8)
Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone (grades 6-8)
Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri (grades 5-8)
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (grades 5 and up)
Just Like That by Gary D Schmidt (grades 5-8)
Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee (grades 6 and up)
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia (grades 5-8)
Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi (grades 6-10)
The Sea-Ringed World by Maria Garcia Esperon (grades 5 and up)
Starfish by Lisa Fipps (grades 5 and up)
Truly Tyler by Terri Libenson (grades 5-8)
High School
Call me American by Abdi Nor Iftin (grades 8 and up)
The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess (grades 8 and up)
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas (grades 9 and up)
Early Departures by Justin A Reynolds (grades 9 and up)
Electric Kingdom by David Arnold (grades 7 and up)
The Life I’m In by Sharon G Flake (grades 9 and up)
The Project by Courtney Summers (grades 9 and up)
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (grades 8 and up)
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour (grades 9 and up)
What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson (grades 9 and up)
Adult
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C A Fletcher
All the Children are Home by Patry Francis
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
The Last Flight by Julie Clark
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Still Life by Louise Penny
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
