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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