Recommended Summer Reading List/SCWA Voluntary Librarian
Whilst wishing you all an enjoyable summer, we would also like to encourage our students to remember to read over this time. Reading is the perfect way to still relax, it continues to develop vocabulary building, comprehension skills and enables our minds to explore, escape and learn. Please find a recommendation list of good reads for this summer. We will look forward to catching up with students to discuss some of the books they have read. With this in mind, in the new academic year we will be celebrating International Literacy Day on 8th September. We would like to invite all students and staff to demonstrate their love of reading by entering a photo competition of all the weird and wonderful places they have read over the summer break: themed 'Catch me Reading'. Lastly, for those of our students who have a love of reading (or would like to grow their love for reading) we would like to invite them to apply in writing to be a SCWA voluntary student librarian. If interested in this role, which hosts a range of incentives and benefits, please put together a handwritten application letter expressing your interest and qualities for the role and take it to the library to apply upon your return.
The Ultimate Summer Reading Recommendations for Teenagers:
Alien Summer by James S. Murray and Carsen Smith
Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott
Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found by Rucker Moses and Theo Gangi
Ready or Not by Megan E. Bryant
Real Pigeons Fight Crime (Book 1) by Andrew McDonald
The Lock-Eater by Zack Loran Clark
The Smartest Kid in the Universe by Chris Grabenstein
Dragon World by Tamara Macfarlane
Omar Rising by Aisha Saeed
Wonder: Illustrated Edition by R. J. Palacio
Map of Flames (The Forgotten Five, Book 1) by Lisa McMann
Marcus Makes a Movie by Kevin Hart
The Last Kids on Earth: Quint and Dirk's Hero Quest by Max Brallier
The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne by Jonathan Stroud
Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom by Sangu Mandanna
Jennifer Chan Is Not Along by Tae Keller
The Ice Cream Machine by Adam Rubin
Honest June by Tina Wells
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
Back to Life: World History as You've Never Seen it Before by DK
Holes by Louis Sachar
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm and Savanna Ganucheau
Horse Girl by Carrie Seim
Girl Stuff by Lisi Harrison
Escape This Book! Titanic by Bill Doyle
Dragons vs. Unicorns by Kate Biberdorf
Kudo Kid: The Mystery of the Masked Medalist by Maia Shibutani, Alex Shibutani and Michelle Schusterman
Jude Banks, Superhero by Ann Hood
