Summer Book Lists

Summer is a great time to go outside and crack open a new book!

Here are a few suggestions to read this summer:

Kindergarten

• The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
• Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus by Mo Willems
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Stephanie’s Ponytail by Robert Munsch

1st Grade

• Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
• Monkey and Elephant Get Better by Carole Lexa Schaefer
• Penny and Her Marble by Kevin Henkes
• Bink & Gollie Best Friends Forever by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee
• Meet Mo and Jo: The Boulder Brothers by Sarah Lynn
• Dodsworth in New York by Tim Egan

2nd Grade

• The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
• The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• Oona Finds An Egg by Adele Griffin
• Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol
• The Paddington books by Michael Bond

3rd Grade

• Key to the Treasure by Peggy Parish
• George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
• The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
• A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
• The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale
• Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates

4th Grade

• Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
• Almost Super by Marion Jensen
• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
• A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
• The BFG by Roald Dahl

5th Grade

• Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull
• Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farms by Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Old Yeller by Fred Gispon
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• Dragon Watch by Brandon Mull

6th Grade

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
• The Giver by Lois Lowry

7th Grade

• Life as We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer
• Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
• Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
• The Perfect Fool by Bethany Zohner Herbert
• Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

8th Grade

• The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
• The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

9th Grade

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

10th Grade

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Good Enough by Paula Yoo
• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

11th Grade

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• The Three Mustketeers by Alexandre Dumas

12th Grade

• I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

For more books, visit Provo City Library here.

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