There’s been plenty of research to show that
children who read during the summer avoid the “summer slide” – a potential loss
of months of reading achievement. That’s not an issue with most Seabury kids;
keeping them supplied with good reading material is the challenge. Either way,
I like to provide a list of summer reading ideas as my end-of-year report card.
My eclectic list is below.
Picture books
Circle, by Jeanne Baker
A Year of Borrowed Men, by Michelle Barker
Have You Seen Elephant?, by David Barrow
The Airport Book, by Lisa Brown
A Goofy Guide to Penguins, by Jean-Luc Coudray & Philippe
Coudray
Buddy and Earl/Buddy and Earl go
Exploring, by
Maureen Fergus
More-igami, by Dori Kleber
Chicken in Space, by Adam Lehrhaupt
Excellent Ed, by Stacy McAnulty
Frank and Lucky get Schooled, by Lynne Rae Perkins
This is my Dollhouse, by Giselle Potter
Freedom in Congo Square, by Carol Boston Weatherford
This is not a Picture Book, by Sergio Ruzzier
Good Night, Baddies, by Deborah Underwood
Secret Tree Fort, by Brianne Farley
Yaks Yak: Animal Word Pairs, by Linda Sue Park
Are we There Yet, by Dan Santat
Nanuk the Ice Bear, by Jeanette Winter
One Hundred Bones, by Yuval Zommer
I am Pan, by Mordicai Gerstein
Emma and Julia Love Ballet, by Barbara McClintock
A Chicken Followed Me Home, by Robin Page
Learning to read
Snail & Worm: Three Stories
About Two Friends,
by Tina Kügler
When Andy Met Sandy, by Tomie dePaola
Flop to the Top, by Eleanor Davis
Urgency Emergency! Itsy Bitsy
Spider, by Dosh
Archer (and others in series)
Ling & Ting: Together in All Weather, by Grace Lin
A Pig, a Fox, and a Box, by Jonathan Fenske
Two Mice, by Sergio Ruzzier
The Thank You Book (the last Elephant & Piggie
book – a beloved series at Seabury)
First chapter books
Into the Wild (third in Chicken
Squad series), by
Doreen Cronin
Detective Gordon: The First Case and Detective Gordon: A Complicated Case, by Ulf Nilsson
All About Sam, by Lois Lowry
Maybelle in the Soup, by Katie Speck
Binky the Space Cat, by Ashley Spires
My Happy Life, by Rose Lagercrantz
Francine Pouline Meets the Ghost Racoon, by Kate
DiCamillo
Space Taxi: Archie Takes Flight, by Wendy Mass
Sophie Simon Solves Them All, by Lisa
Graff
Dory Fantasmagory, by Abby Hanlo
Middle grade
(loosely
defined as geared toward 8-12-year-olds)
Waylon: One Awesome Thing, by Sara Pennypacker
The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown
Grayling’s Song, by Karen Cushman
The Girl Who Could Fly, by Victoria Forester
Raymie Nightingale, by Kate DiCamillo
Nuts to You, by Lynne Rae Perkins
A Tangle of Knots and A Clatter of Jars, by Lisa Graff
Skating with the Statue of Liberty, by Susan Lynn Meyer
Tru & Nelle, by G. Neri
A Dragon’s Guide to the Care and
Feeding of Humans,
by Laurence Yep and Joanne Ryder
Echo, by Pamela Muñoz Ryan
The War that Saved My Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Booked and The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander
Pax, by
Sara Pennypacker
Romeo Blue, by Phoebe Stone
The Vacation, by Polly Horvath
Mad about Monkeys, by Owen Davey
Mars Evacuees, by Sophia McDougall
Young adult
(loosely
defined as 5th to 8th grade)
Wolf Hollow, by Lauren Wolk
The Lie Tree, by Frances Hardinge
Every Single Second, by Tricia Springstubb
The Nest, by Kenneth Oppel
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story
of the Deadliest Cook in America, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Cuckoo Song, by Frances Hardinge
Baba Yaga’s Assistant, by Marika McCoola
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