Summer is almost here which means more time to read! Even if you don’t think of yourself as a reader, I am willing to bet there is at least one title in this post that will grab your attention. Most of these books have multiple starred reviews – you can think of them as the cream of the crop. Some of my favorites, I’ve put in bold below. Please leave a comment of your favorite reads or what you’re planning on reading this summer. Happy Reading!
Grades 1-3
Anything but Ordinary Addie by Mara Rockliff
Are We There Yet? By Dan Santat
The Cow that Climbed a Tree by Gemma Merino
Cricket Song by Anne Hunter
The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt
Earmuffs for Everyone! By Meghan McCarthy
Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and her Flying Machine by Heather Lang
Finding Winnie: the True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick
Hare and Tortoise by Alison Murray
How to Swallow a Pig: Step-by-Step Advice from the Animal Kingdom by Steve Jenkinsj
It’s Only Stanley by Jon Agee
I will Chomp You! By Bob Shea
Little Robot by Ben Hatke
The Nonsense Show by Eric Carle
The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton
Rain Fish by Lois Ehlert
Rude Cakes by Rowboat Watkins
Spot, the Cat by Henry Cole
The Story of Diva and Flea by Mo Willems
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers
Swap! By Steve Light
There is a Tribe of Kids by Lane Smith
The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Ann Frank’s Window by Jeff Gottesfeld
Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie
Waylon!: One Awesome Thing by Sara Pennypacker
The Whisper by Pamela Zagarenski
Written and Drawn by Henrietta by Liniers
You Never Heard of Casey Stengel?! By Jonah Winter
Grades 3-6
The Astounding Broccoli Boy by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: 20 Chilling Tales from the Wilderness by Hal Johnson
Firefly Hollow by Alison McGhee
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Free Verse by Sarah Dooley
Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton
Harriet the Invincible by Ursula Vernon
How to Swallow a Pig: Step-by-Step Advice from the Animal Kingdom by Steve Jenkins
The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly
Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai
Little Robot by Ben Hatke
Lost in NYC: a Subway Adventure by Nadja Spiegelman
Maybe a Fox by Kathi Appelt
The Nest by Kenneth Oppel
The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs by Cylin Busby
Nooks & Crannies by Jessica Lawson
Ollie’s Odyssey by William Joyce
The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Rain Reign by Ann Martin
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
Rules for Stealing Stars by Corey Ann Haydu
The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson
Slacker by Gordon Korman
Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan Auxier
The Thing about Jelleyfish by Ali Benjamin
The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Ann Frank’s Window by Jeff Gottesfeld
The Turn of the Tide by Rosanne Parry
Waylon!: One Awesome Thing by Sara Pennypacker
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Written and Drawn by Henrietta by Liniers
You Never Heard of Casey Stengel?! By Jonah Winter
Grades 6-8
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Connor Leslie
The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: 20 Chilling Tales from the Wilderness by Hal Johnson
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury
Free Verse by Sarah Dooley
Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hilton
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai
Listen to the Moon by Michael Morpurgo
Lost in NYC: a Subway Adventure by Nadja Spiegelma
Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff
Lottery Boy by Michael Byrne
Maybe a Fox by Kathi Appelt
The Nest by Kenneth Oppel
Nooks & Crannies by Jessica Lawson
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
Rules for Stealing Stars by Corey Ann Haydu
The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson
Samurai Rising: the Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsue by Pamela S. Turner
The Seventh Most Important Thing by Shelley Pearsall
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
Slacker by Gordon Korman
Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard by Jonathan Auxier
Terror at Bottle Creek by Watt Key
The Thing about Jelleyfish by Ali Benjamin
The Trouble in Me by Jack Gantos
Vango: Between Sky and Earth by Timothee de Fombelle
The War that Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
We Will not be Silent: the White Rose Student Resistance Movement the Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
Grades 9 and up
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern
Black Dove White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip M. Hoose
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge
Dime by E. R. Frank
The Emperor of any Place by Tim Wynne-Jones
The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury
The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
I Crawl Through It by A. S. King
The Last Boy and Girl in the World by Siobhan Vivian
The Last Leaves Falling by Sarah Benwell
Lottery Boy by Michael Byrne
Martin Marten by Brian Doyle
The Memory of Light by Francisco X Stork
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Samurai Rising: the Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsue by Pamela S. Turner
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond
The Trouble in Me by Jack Gantos
Vango: Between Sky and Earth by Timothee de Fombelle
The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh\
Adult books that I’ve recently enjoyed:
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Choosing by Rachelle Dekker
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris by Jennifer L. Scott
