Books for Summertime
We LOVE a good book list here at Brave Writer! Check these books out from your local library, or head to the bookstore, and get your kiddos in the summery spirit.
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Summer Books for Kids
With the exception of the first section, the titles have an accompanying Brave Writer’s mechanics and literature programs, and we’ve linked to them below.
WEE ONES
- The Field by Baptiste Paul
- The Things Lenny Loves Most About Baseball by Andrew Larsen
- Anybody’s Game: Kathryn Johnston, the First Girl to Play Little League
- Baseball by Heather Lang
- The Bug Girl by Sophia Spencer with Margaret McNamera
- Creep and Flutter: The Secret World of Insects and Spiders by Jim Arnosky
- Inch and Roly Make a Wish by Melissa Wiley
- A Rock is Lively by Dianna Hutts Aston
- Lubna and Pebble by Wendy Meddour
- The Stone Hatchlings by Sarah Tsiang
- What’s Cooking at 10 Garden Street? by Felicita Sala
- Eric Carle’s Animals Animals by Laura Whipple
- Kiyoshi’s Walk by Mark Karlins
- Poetry by Shauna LaVoy Reynolds
- The Magic Boat by Kit Pearson and Katherine Farris
- Room for Everyone by Naa Khan
- Locomotive by Brian Floca
- The Water Hole by Graeme Base
- Wild City by Ben Hoare
- So Imagine Me: Nature Riddles in Poetry by Lynn Davies
- Pool by Jihyeon Lee
LITTLES
- Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr (Dart)
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater (Dart)
- Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol (Dart)
- Finn Family Moomintroll by Tov Jansson (Dart)
- Heartwood Hotel: A True Home by Kallie George (Dart)
- The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne (Dart)
- Julieta and the Diamond Enigma by Luisana Duarte Armendáriz (Dart)
- Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake (Dart)
- The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (Dart)
- Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson (Dart)
- The Prairie Thief by Melissa Wiley (Dart)
- The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin (Dart)
- Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliot (Dart)
- Egg Marks the Spot by Amy Timberlake (Dart)
- Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly (Dart)
- Solimar by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Dart)
- Turtle of Oman by Naomi Shihab Nye (Dart)
- Willodeen by Katherine Applegate (Dart)
- Wondrous Rex by Patricia MacLachlan (Dart)
- One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate (Dart)
MIDDLERS
- Midsummer’s Mayhem by Rajani LaRocca (Arrow)
- Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (Arrow)
- Amari and the Night Brothers by Sydney Taylor (Arrow)
- Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander (Arrow)
- Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman (Arrow)
- The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter (Arrow)
- The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm (Arrow)
- Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers (Arrow)
- The Nerviest Girl in the World by Melissa Wiley (Arrow)
- The Penderwicks at Last by Jeanne Birdsall (Arrow)
- Pie by Sarah Weeks (Arrow)
- The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Arrow)
- The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown (Arrow)
- Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia (Arrow)
- The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden by Karina Yan Glaser (Arrow)
- The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser (Arrow)
- Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland (Arrow)
- Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Arrow)
- Merci Suárez Change Gears by Meg Medina (Arrow)
- Pages and Co: The Bookwanderers by Anna James (Arrow)
TEENS
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (Boomerang)
- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Boomerang)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (Boomerang)
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Boomerang)
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Slingshot)
- The Beast Player by Nahoko Uehashi translated by Cathy Hirano (Boomerang)
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Boomerang)
- Divergent by Veronica Roth (Boomerang)
- The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (Slingshot)
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Boomerang)
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Boomerang)
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Boomerang)
- The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (Boomerang)
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Boomerang)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Boomerang)
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder (Boomerang)
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman (Boomerang)
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (Boomerang)
- The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds (Boomerang)
- Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys (Boomerang)
- The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog by Adam Gidwitz (Boomerang)
