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What’s the best way to keep your kids (or yourself) busy over the summer and help them continue to learn? Summer reading of course! With the school year wrapping up, I thought I would share a list of 25 books that we have loved and I’m sure others will too.
Don’t forget, that you don’t need to buy books… head to the library!!
Kindergarten – 2nd Grade
You Are Mine (Max Lucado’s Wemmicks), by Max Lucado $14.30
Old Mikamba Had a Farm, by Rachel Isadora $14.31
A Barnyard Collection: Click, Clack, Moo and More
What Do You Do With an Idea? by Komi Yamada $11.30
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown $13.75
3rd through 5th Grade
The Boxcar Children Bookshelf
Dear America Book Series
(mostly written for girls)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming $6.99
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl $6
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame $13.09
6th through 8th grade
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis $19.31
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell $6
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggen $4.50
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells $7.90
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
9th through 12th grade
Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien $15
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot $5.72
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte $9.89
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee $5.18
Power and the Glory by Graham Greene $7.84
Adults
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough $18
Hungry for God…Starving for Time by Lori Hatcher $1.99
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee $14.66
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler $15.57
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson, $9.94
