2025 Summer Reading Suggestions
All titles on this list are available at Lee Memorial Library or other BCCLS libraries
Remember, these are Summer Reading suggestions – you do not have assigned books so you can choose whatever you would like! If you don’t see your choice on the list, we can help you find it.
Ages 0-2 years
But not the hippopotamus by Sandra Boynton E (BDBK) BOYNTON
Pajama Time! By Sandra Boynton E (BDBK) BOYNTON
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell E CAMPBELL
Ruby & Rufus: Love the Water by Olivier Dunrea E DUNREA
Gossie by Olivier Dunrea E DUNREA
Huggy the Python Hugs Too Hard by Ame Dyckman E (BDBK) DYCKMAN
First 100 Words E (BDBK) FIRST
One Lonely Fish: A Counting Book with Bite! by Andy Mansfield E FLINTHAM
Who? A Celebration of Babies by Robie H Harris E (BDBK) HARRIS
Before & After by by Jean Jullien E (BDBK) JULLIEN
Rocket Town by Bob Logan E (BDBK) LOGAN
Making Faces E (BDBK) MAKING
Sunflower Lion by Kevin Henkes E HENKES
Ages 3-5 years
Life on Mars by Jon Agee E AGEE
I'll Love You Till the Cows Come Home by Kathryn Cristaldi E CRISTALDI
Little Excavator by Anna Dewdney E DEWDNEY
A Piglet Named Mercy by Kate DiCamillo E DICAMILLO
Go, dog, go! by P. D. Eastman JE EASTMAN
Lucia the Luchadora by Cynthia Leonor Garza E GARZA
Cyril and Pat by Emily Gravett E GRAVETT
Summer Supper by Rubin Pfeffer E PFEFFER
Hey, Water! By Antoinette Portis E PORTIS
Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker E RINKER
Say Zoop by Hervé Tullet E TULLET
ABCs from Space: A Discovered Alphabet by Adam Voiland E VOILAND
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? By Jane Yolen E YOLEN
Wemberley Worried by Kevin Henkes E HENKES
Bad Kitty by Nick Bruel E BRUEL
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes E HENKES
Click Clack Moo by Doreen Cronin E CRONIN
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena E DE LA PENA
Grades K-1
Hi, Fly Guy! by Tedd Arnold JE ARNOLD
Fly Guy Presents Space by Tedd Arnold JE ARNOLD
Yasmin in Charge by Saadia Faruqi J FIC FARUQI
¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market by Raúl The Third E GONZALEZ
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon by Suzanne Slade J BIOG JOHNSON
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes E HENKES
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! By Jon Scieszka E SCIESZKA
Itty-Bitty Kitty Corn by Shannon Hale E HALE
Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin E RUBIN
It Was Supposed to Be Sunny by Samantha Cotterill E COTTERILL
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon E CANNON
Tiny T. Rex and the Very Very Dark by Jonathan Stutzman E STUTZMAN
Llama Destroys the World by Jonathan Stutzman E STUTZMAN
Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters by Andrea Beaty J FIC BEATY EC
The Unicorn Diaries by Rebecca Elliott J FIC ELLIOTT EC
A Friend for Dragon by Dav Pilkey JE PILKEY
Diary of an Ice Princess series by Christina Soontornvat J FIC SOONTORNVAT EC
Grades 2-3
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo J FIC DICAMILLO
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau JFIC DUPRAU
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez J FIC PEREZ
Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot By Dav Pilkey J FIC PILKEY
Captain Underpants Series by Dav Pilkey J FIC PILKEY
Bad Kitty: Kitten Trouble by Nick Bruel J SERIES BAD
CatStronauts series by Drew Brockington J GRAPH CATSTRONAUTS
Aquicorn Cove by Katie O’Neill J GRAPH ONEILL
Song of the Court by Katy Farina J GRAPH FARINA
InvestiGators by John Patrick Green J GRAPH GREEN
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes J FIC HENKES
Crossings by Katy Duffield J 333.954 DUF
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine E LEVINE
After Happily Ever After series by Tony Bradman J SERIES AFTER
Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene J FIC KEENE
Rump by Liesl Shurtliff J FIC SHURTLIFF
The Way Things Work by David Macaulay J 600 MAC
Dory Fantasmagory Series by Abby Hanlon J FIC HANLON
Alvin Ho Series by Lenore Look J FIC LOOK
Mercy Watson Series by Kate Di Camillo J FIC DICAMILLO EC
Stink Series by Megan McDonald J FIC MCDONALD EC
Grades 4-6
The Line Tender by Kate Allen J FIC ALLEN
Refugee by Alan Gratz J FIC GRATZ
The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman J FIC GUTMAN
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly J FIC KELLY
Amina’s Voice by Hena Kahn J FIC KHAN
Inside out and back again by Thanhha Lai J FIC LAI
Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai J FIC LAI
Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee J FIC LEE
Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles by Thomas Lennon J FIC LENNON
Rules by Cynthia Lord J FIC LORD
The Candymakers by Wendy Mass J FIC MASS
Wonder by R. J. Palacio J FIC PALACIO
The Someday Birds by Sally J. Pla J FIC PLA
Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary D. Schmidt J FIC SCHMIDT
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick J FIC SELZNICK
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead J FIC STEAD
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart J FIC STEWART
Smile by Raina Telgemeier J GRAPH TELGEMEIER
Front Desk by Kelly Yang J FIC YANG
The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman J FIC GROSSMAN
Kristy’s Great Idea by Raina Telgemeier J GRAPH BABYSITTERS.1
The Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland J FIC SUTHERLAND
Matilda by Roald Dahl J FIC DAHL
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor J FIC CONNOR
The Princess and the Frog by E.D. Baker J FIC BAKER
Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega J FIC ORTEGA
Aru Shah Series by Roshani Chokshi J FIC CHOKSHI
Live Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano J FIC MERIANO
The Dragon Warrior by Katie Zhao J FIC ZHAO
The Last Last Day of Summer by Lamar Giles J FIC GILES
The School for Good and Evil, Book 1 by Soman Chainani J FIC CHAINANI
Serafina and the black cloak by Robert Beatty J FIC BEATTY
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall JFIC BIRDSALL
The Inquisitor’s Tale by Adam Gidwitz J FIC GIDWITZ
Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte J FIC LEZOTTE
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson J FIC LUGMAN-DAWSON
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna by Alda P. Dobbs J FIC DOBBS
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk J FIC WOLK
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes J FIC RHODES
Grades 7-8
The Alchemyst by Michael Scott YA FIC SCOTT
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick J FIC SELZNICK
Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina J FIC MEDINA
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander J FIC ALEXANDER
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman YA FIC GAIMAN
Bloom by Kenneth Oppel J FIC OPPEL
From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks J FIC MARKS
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card YA FIC CARD
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith YA FIC SMITH
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman YA FIC PULLMAN
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs YA FIC RIGGS
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson YA FIC ANDERSON
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi YA FIC MAFI
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram YA FIC KHORRAM
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater YA 364.15 SLA
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner YA FIC ZENTNER
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson YA GRAPH STEVENSON
The New Kid by Jerry Craft J GRAPH
Tristan Strong by Kwame Mbalia J FIC MBALIA
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga J FIC WARGA
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani J FIC HIRANANDANI
The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi J FIC RIAZI
I Can Make That Promise by Christine Day J FIC DAY
The King and The Dragonflies by Kacen Callender J FIC CALLENDER
Beyonders by Brandon Mull J FIC MULL
Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee YA FIC DEE
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi YA FIC MAFI
Magnus Chase Series by Rick Riordan J FIC RIORDAN
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott YA FIC LIPPINCOTT
Scythe Series by Neal Shusterman YA FIC SHUSTERMAN
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee J FIC RAMEE
Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald J FIC GREENWALD
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park YA FIC PARK
Freedom Swimmer by Wai Chim YA FIC CHIM
Gold Mountain by Betty Yee YA FIC YEE
Grades 9-12
Legend by Marie Lu YA FIC LU
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas YA FIC MAAS
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor YA FIC TAYLOR
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman YA FIC KAUFMAN
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo YA FIC BARDUGO
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera YA FIC SILVERA
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven YA FIC NIVEN
One of Us Is Lying by Karen Mcmanus YA FIC MCMANUS
With the fire on high by Elizabeth Acevedo YA FIC ACEVEDO
Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz YA FIC SAENZ
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare YA FIC CLARE
The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess YA BIO SABIC-EL-RAYESS
The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh by Candace Fleming YA FIC FLEMING
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds YA FIC REYNOLDS
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky YA FIC CHBOSKY
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas YA FIC THOMAS
The Dreamer Trilogy by Maggie Stefvater
Love is a Revolution by Renee Watson YA FIC WATSON
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas YA FIC THOMAS
The Project by Courtney Summers YA FIC SUMMERS
An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi YA FIC MAFI
Lore by Alexandra Bracken YA FIC BRACKEN
Wings of Ebony by J. Elle YA FIC ELLE
A Pho Love Story by Loan Le YA FIC LE