Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Good Books to Read for Summer


Summer is almost here! Keep up your reading skills while enjoying a great book. You can participate in the library's summer reading program and earn free books and other prizes. 
Our theme this year is "Every Hero has a Story" for kids and "Unmask" for teens. Each branch will be offering many fun programs for kids and teens 

Here is a list of picture books you might enjoy reading this summer:


Frog & Friends: Best Summer Ever  by Eve Bunting

Cheers for a Dozen Ears: a Summer Crop of Counting  
by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky

Summer  by Emily C. Dawson

The Night Before Summer Camp  by Natasha Wing

I See Summer  by Charles Ghigna

Summer Days and Nights  by Wong Herbert Yee

Summer Beat  by Betsy Franco












Blackout  by John Rocco

It's Sunny Today  by Kristin Sterling

I am Extremely Absolutely Boiling  by Lauren Child

Beaches and Bicycles: a Summer Counting Book  by Rebecca Fjelland Davis

When Fireflies Come  by Jonathan London

It's Summer!  by Susan Swan


Here is a list of fiction books for chapter readers:

The Summer I Saved the World--in 65 Days  by Michele Weber Hurwitz

Great Good Summer  by Liz Garton Scanlon

Catboy Goes to Camp  by L.A. Campbell

Quinny & Hooper  by Adriana Brad Schanen

Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Summer Vacation  by Tom Greenwald

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer  by Megan McDonald

Summer at Forsaken Lake  by Michael D. Beil


Lawn Boy  by Gary Paulsen

Summer School!: What Genius Thought That Up?  by Henry Winkler

My Life as a Book  by Janet Tashjian

One Lucky Summer  by Laura McGee Kvasnosky





Here is a list of non-fiction books:

Mosquitoes are Ruining my Summer: and Other Silly Dilly Camp Songs  by Alan Katz                                                                                                  
Freedom Summer: the 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
by Susan Goldman Rubin

Get a Summer Adventure Job  by Ryan Jacobson

Summer Solstice  by Ellen B. Jackson

Swifter, Higher, Staonger: a Photographic History of the Summer Olympics  by Sue Macy

Summer: an Alphabet Acrostic  by Steven Schnur

The Longest Day: Celebrating the Summer Solstice  by Wendy Pfeffer

Kylie Jean Summer Camp Craft Queen
by Marne Ventura and Marci Peschki