Summer is the perfect time for catching up on reading for fun. Audiobooks are a perfect accompaniment to a car or plane ride, or to have on in the background during art projects or while playing with Legos.
I regularly tweet links to recommended reading lists (follow me, or check them out here and here), but below are a few books I'm especially delighted to recommend. Every OWS student was given a souvenir OWS library summer reading bookmark to bring home that featured some of the titles below. We hope you enjoy it!
Remember to give National Ambassador for Young People's Literature's Gene Luen Yang's Reading without Walls challenge a try! It's a fun way to structure your reading if you don't know where to begin. Not sure if one of the titles below is for you? Check out professional review sources (Booklist, Kirkus, School Library Journal) available via the public library and online bookstore sites for more details, including recommended ages.
Picture books (fiction and nonfiction) for ALL ages!
Away by Emil Sher
Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell
Lesser Spotted Animals by Martin Brown
Tidy by Emily Gravett
The Way Home in the Night by Akiko Miyakoshi
Wild Animals of the South by Dieter Braun
Upper Elementary & Middle School
Amina's Voice by Hena Khan
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
Click Here to Start by Denis Markell
Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
In the Shadow of the Sun by Anne Sibley O'Brien
One Last Word by Nikki Grimes
Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder
Sunny Side Up by Jennifer L. Holm & Matthew Holm
This Is Just a Test by Madelyn Rosenberg & Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Middle & High School
Between Two Skies by Joanne O'Sullivan
Every Falling Star by Sungju Lee
My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier
Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin
Wonderful Feels Like This by Sara Lövestam
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