Benefits of Summer Reading and Recommended Books for Grades 3-8
Summer reading offers numerous benefits such as developing a lifelong reading habit, improving reading skills, and providing freedom to choose preferred reading materials. It also encourages exploring various genres like fiction, graphic novels, and nonfiction. Additionally, a curated list of recommended books for grades 3-8 is provided to inspire young readers.
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Benefits of Summer Reading Not sure if summer reading is for you? Here s why you should give it a try Helps to make reading a lifelong habit (not just something we do for school assignments). Encourages you to go to the public library, a great place to cool off in the summer! If the library is (still) closed, check their website to see if they have OverDrive available. You can also check https://stories.audible.com/start-listen Helps improve your reading skills. You can read to enjoy your book, without worrying about assignments. You can read at your own pace. You can choose your own books. Don t like reading? Try graphic novels, joke books, magazines, newspapers, poetry books, short stories, how-to books, and audiobooks! Nonfiction books about a favorite topic are also great ways to dive into reading.
3-5thGrade Recommended Reads Fiction Fiction Forget Me Not (Terry) Lucky Broken Girl (Behar) Inkling (Oppel) Bob (Mass) Sal & Gabi Break the Universe (Hernandez) The Parker Inheritance (Johnson) Wolf Hollow (Wolk) The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl (McAnulty) Finding Langston (Cline-Ransome) Amina s Voice (Khan) Book Scavenger (Bertman) The Book of Boy (Murdock) Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Mbalia) Other Words for Home (Warga) Lalani of the Distant Sea (Kelly) Restart (Korman) The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Gemeinhart) Merci Suarez Changes Gears (Medina) Strange Birds (Perez) From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Marks) Blended (Draper) Rain Reign (Martin) Graphic Novels Nonfiction The Witch Boy (Ostertag) Stargazing (Wang) Be Prepared (Brosgol) Roller Girl (Jamieson) Real Friends (Hale) The Nameless City (Hicks) Pashmina (Chanani) Lily the Thief (Kukkonen) Guts (Telgemeier) The Okay Witch (Steinkellner) Sunny Side Up (Holm) To Dance: A Memoir (Siegel) Amulet series (Kibuishi) Ghosts (Telgemeier) Coraline (Russell) The Big Book of Monsters (Johnson) Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muir (Bertagna) Oil Spill!: Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico (Landau) Can I Touch Your Hair? (Latham) Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion (Barton) Fallingwater (Harshman) Reach for the Skai (Jackson) Suffragette: The Battle for Equality (Roberts) Amelia to Zora: 26 Women Who Changed the World (Chin-Lee) Turtle Island (Yellowhorn)
6-8thGrade Recommended Reads Fiction Fiction Spirit Hunters (Oh) Hatchet (Paulsen) Ghost Boys (Rhodes) A Place to Belong (Kadohata) Some Places More Than Others (Watson) Beyond the Bright Sea (Wolk) Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Bowling) Hello Universe (Kelly) Hurricane Child (Callender) Scary Stories for Young Foxes (Heidicker) A Wrinkle in Time (L Engle) Look Both Ways (Reynolds) Allies (Gratz) Genesis Begins Again (Williams) Front Desk (Yang) The Benefits of Being an Octopus (Braden) Inside Out and Back Again (Lai) The War That Saved My Life (Bradley) Notorious (Korman) Song for a Whale (Kelly) Amal Unbound (Saeed) Pay Attention, Carter Jones (Schmidt) Graphic Novels Nonfiction The Witch Boy (Ostertag) All s Faire in Middle School (Jamieson) This Was Our Pact (Andrews) Zeus: King of the Gods (O Connor) Fish Girl (Napoli) Sita s Ramayana (Arni) A Wrinkle in Time (graphic novel) (Larson) Go With the Flow (Williams) The Little Prince (Sfar) Cardboard (TenNapel) The Breadwinner (Tanaka) Brave (Chmakova) Hidden (Dauvillier) Back from the Brink (Castaldo) Moon Mission: The Epic 400-Year Journey To Apollo 11 (Brouwer) Bodies From the Ice (Deem) Brave. Black. First. (Hudson) Hope in the Mail (Van Draanen) Normal (Newman) March Forward, Girl (Beals) Higher, Steeper, Faster: The Daredevils Who Conquered the Skies (Goldstone) Zombie Makers (Johnson) Fly Girls (Pearson) Rad Women Worldwide (Schatz) Lincoln s Grave Robbers (Sheinkin)
7th+Grade Recommended Reads Fiction Fiction The Night Diary (Hiranandani) The First Rule of Punk (Perez) Holes (Sachar) Chirp (Messner) Echo (Ryan) Stella By Starlight (Draper) Miles Morales, Spider-Man (Reynolds) The Stars Beneath Our Feet (Moore) Nowhere Boy (Marsh) Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows (Calejo) The Fairy-Tale Detectives (Buckley) Game Changer (Greenwald) Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Mbalia) Other Words for Home (Warga) Dear Sweet Pea (Murphy) Maybe He Just Likes You (Dee) Prairie Lotus (Park) Ghost (Reynolds) The Line Tender (Allen) Fish in a Tree (Hunt) Friends for Life (Norriss) The Inquisitor s Tale (Gidwitz) The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Barnhill) Small Spaces (Arden) Graphic Novels Nonfiction American Born Chinese (Yang) Awkward (Chmakova) The New Kid (Craft) White Bird (Palacio) The Crossover (Alexander) The Arrival (Tan) Illegal (Colfer) Mighty Jack (Hatke) All Summer Long (Larson) The Graveyard Book (Russell) Snapdragon (Leyh) Stickman Odyssey (Ford) Ghostopolis (TenNapel) They Called Us Enemy (Tamaki) The Boy on the Wooden Box (Leyson) Enemy Child (Warren) The Poison Eaters (Jarrow) Born Just Right (Reeves) In the Shadow of Liberty (Davis) Caught! (Bragg) What the Eagle Sees (Yellowhorn) Bugs in Danger (Kurlansky) The Magnificent Migration (Montgomery) Destination Moon (Maurer) Groundbreaking Guys (Peters) Stolen Justice (Goldstone)
8th+Grade Recommended Reads Fiction Fiction Cinder (Meyer) Gone (Grant) Steelheart (Sanderson) Orbiting Jupiter (Schmidt) One of Us Is Lying (McManus) A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Kemmerer) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Boyne) And Then There Were None (Christie) Girl, Stolen (Henry) OCDaniel (King) Unwind (Shusterman) Beverly Right Here (Dicamillo) Sweep (Auxier) Booked (Alexander) Marcus Vega Doesn t Speak Spanish (Cartaya) Touching Spirit Bear (Mikaelsen) Dry (Shusterman) Sold (McCormick) Not If I Save You First (Carter) Legend (Lu) Turtles All the Way Down (Green) One (Crossan) Dumplin (Murphy) Between Shades of Gray (Sepetys) Graphic Novels Nonfiction Dragon Hoops (Yang) The Oracle Code (Preitano) The Prince and the Dressmaker (Wang) In Real Life (Doctorow/Wang) Will & Whit (Gulledge) Boxers (Yang) Speak (Anderson) Baba Yaga s Assistant (McCoola) Snow White (Phelan) Pumpkinheads (Rowell) This One Summer (Tamaki) Anya s Ghost (Brosgol) Nimona (Stevenson) Hey, Kiddo (Krosoczka) Outcasts United (St. John) Lincoln s Grave Robbers (Sheinkin) They Called Themselves the KKK (Bartoletti) The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors (Bascomb) Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Reynolds) Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During WWII (Marrin) The Faithful Spy (Hendrix) The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees (Brown) Infinite Hope (Bryan) Games of Deception (Maraniss)
