Summer Reading Recommendations
Each list contains recommendations for students entering that grade next year. These suggestions will help introduce topics that will be taught across all subject areas during the school year. If you would like recommendations based on your interests or other books you have read feel free to fill out the form below and I will be happy to put together a few suggestions for you. If you can't get to the public Library to check out books you can download ebooks and audiobooks anytime using Sora!
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
Henry and Mudge: The First Book by Cynthia Rylant
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
We’re All Wonders by R.J. Palacio
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
What If You Had Animal Eyes? by Sandra Markle
Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson
Elephant & Piggie by Mo Willems
Biscuit by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff
From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault
Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik & Maurice Sendak
The Family Book by Todd Parr
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho
The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad & S.K. Ali
Big by Vashti Harrison
Monkey and Cake by Drew Daywalt
We Are Growing by Laurie Keller
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
The Bad Seed by Jory John
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
Henry and Mudge: The First Book by Cynthia Rylant
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
I Am biography series by Brad Meltzer
Camilla by Alicia Salzar
Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora
King & Kayla and the Case of the Missing Dog Treats by Dori Hillestad Butler
Mr. Putter & Tabby Pour the Tea by Cynthia Rylant
Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea by Ben Clanton
Baloney and Friends by Greg Pizzoli
We’re All Wonders by R.J. Palacio
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
The Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure by Doreen Cronin
Heidi Hecklebeck by Wanda Coven
Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows
Juana & Lucas by Juana Medina
Sofia Martinez by Jacqueline Jules
Yasmin by Saadia Faruqi
My Weird School by Dan Gutman
Notebook of Doom by Troy Cummings
Owl Diaries by Rebecca Elliott
Diary of a Pug by Kyla May
Press Start by Thomas Flintham
Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne
The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale
Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo
Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio
What If You Had Animal Eyes? by Sandra Markle
Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds
EllRay Jakes Is Not a Chicken! by Sally Warner
Henry Heckelbeck Gets a Dragon by Wanda Coven
Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid by Megan McDonald
Judy Moody Was in a Mood by Megan McDonald
Zoey and Sassafras: Dragons and Marshmallows by Asia Citro
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
Who Was series various authors
Juana & Lucas by Juana Medina
The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin
Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds by David A. Adler
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Judy Moody Was in a Mood by Megan McDonald
EllRay Jakes Is Not a Chicken by Sally Warner
Jake Maddox books
Mac B Kid Spy by Mac Barnett
Dork Diaries by Nikki Russell
I Survived Series by Lauren Tarshis
Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters by Andrea Beaty
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Sumerian Slave! by Jacqueline Morley
Mummies and Pyramids by Mary Pope Osborne & Will Osborne
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Olympians Series by George O’Connor
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Greek Athlete! by Michael Ford
Ancient Rome and Pompeii by Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Who Was Harriet Tubman? By Yona Zeldis McDonough
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Short & Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales by Robert D. San Souci
If You Lived With the Iroquois by Ellen Levine
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
What is the Constitution? By Patricia Brennan Demuth
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Refugee by Alan Gratz
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Loser by Jerry Spinelli
Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks & Gita Varadarajan
Enola Holmes by Serena Blasco
Best Friends by Shannon Hale
History Smashers series by Kate Messner.
When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson
Blended by Sharon M. Draper
All’s Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
The Giver by Lois Lowry
History Smashers series by Kate Messner
When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Reconstruction: The Rebuilding of the United States After the Civil War by Judy Dodge Cummings
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition) by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Total Garbage: A Messy Dive into Trash, Waste, and Our World By Rebecca Donnelly
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai
Hidden Figures (Young Readers Edition) by Margot Lee Shetterly
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
Flying Lessons & Other Stories Edited by Ellen Oh
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Verse novel)
I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
I Survived series by Lauren Tarshis
All Summer Long By Hope Larson
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Nimona by ND Stevenson
Flying Lessons & Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh
The Unteachables by Gordon Korman
Warcross by Marie Lu
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Hidden Figures (young readers edition) by Margot Lee Shetterly
When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson
Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
Monster by Walter Dean Meyers
March by John Lewis
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Abandon ship! by Michael Tougias
Race against death : the greatest POW rescue of World War II by Deborah Hopkinson
Unbreakable : the spies who cracked the Nazis' secret code by Rebecca E.F. Barone
The librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe adapted by Salva Rubio
Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
America redux by Ariel Aberg-Riger
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Walls and welcome mats : immigration and the American dream by Lars Krogstad Ortiz
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Refugee by Alan Gratz
Only This Beautiful Moment by Abdi Nazemian
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell
Fences by August Wilson
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Fault in Our Stars by John Green
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Abdi Khorram
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi
The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Money Out Loud by Berna Anat
The Mona Lisa Vanishes by Nicholas Day
The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
I Must Betray You By Ruta Sepetys