Edinger House members are great readers who, when I asked for some summer reading suggestions for their peers, had a great time. The rules were they had to come from their independent reading choices; that meant they couldn’t list books I’d read to them or others they’d read for class projects. Being avid readers, this wasn’t a problem. In fact, what was a problem for some was limiting their list to ten! What I love is how the lists show what wide-ranging readers they are. You will see that one moment they are reading very sophisticated books and at the next something young and light. The following are only a few from each child’s list (which, by the way, they annotated beautifully) to give you a taste of their wide reading range and to use when looking for books for children in your own environment.
I recommends Jeanne Birdsall’s Penderwick series, Wendy Wan-Long Shang’s The Great Wall of Lucy Wu, Linda Sue Park’s A Single Shard, Sarah Week’s So B. It, and Christopher Paul Curtis’s The Mighty Miss. Malone.
J1 recommends Michael Buckley’s Nerds series and Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.
J2 recommends Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart series, Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl, Suzanne Collin’s The Hunger Games, Chris Grabenstein’s Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, and Ruth Stiles Gannett’s My Father’s Dragon.
N recommends Gordon Korman’s Ungifted, Lemony Snicket’s File Under 13 Suspicious Incidents, Louis Sachar’s Holes, Kate DiCamillo’s Flora & Ulysses, and Nancy Farmer’s House of the Scorpion.
H recommends Philip Pullman’s I Was a Rat!, Adam Gidwitz’s A Tale Dark and Grimm, and Roald Dahl’s Danny, the Champion of the World.
M recommends J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Pittacus Lore’s I Am Number Four, and Rick Riordon’s Percy Jackson series.
W recommends Anthony Horowitz’s Scorpia, Kevin Henke’s The Year of Billy Miller, Jeffrey Brown’s Jedi Academy, and Joseph Bruchac’s Code Talker.
J3 recommends Jane Smiley’s A Good Horse, Brian Farrey’s The Vengekeep Prophecies, Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy, and Lauren Myracle’s Twelve.
C recommends Jeff Kinney’s Dog Days, Kate Klise and M. Sarah Klise’s Regarding the Fountain, and Raina Telgemeier’s Smile.
A1 recommends Joan Aiken’s The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Cynthia Lord’s Rules, Holly Goldberg Sloan’s Counting By Sevens, Carl Hiaasen’s Hoot, and Clare Vanderpool’s Navigating Early,
J4 recommends Tommy Greenwald’s Charlie Joe Jackson series, Lincoln Peirce’s Big Nat series, and W.C. Mack’s Athlete vs Mathlete: Double Dribble.
A 2 recommends Stephan Pastis’s second Timothy Failure book, James Patterson’s I Funny, and Tone Almhjell’s The Twistrose Key.
B recommends Andy Griffiths’ 13 Story Tree House, Ellen Potter’s Otis Dooda, and Louis Sachar’s Wayside School.
G recommends a whole bunch of Lauren Myracle’s books including Violets in Bloom, R.J Palacio’ Wonder, and Ceelo Green’s Everybody’s Brother.
L recommends Adam Rex’s The True Meaning of Smekday, Tui T Sutherland’s Wings of Fire, and Carl Hiaasan Flush and Chomp.
R1 recommends Eleanor Estes’s The Hundred Dresses, Whoopi Goldberg’s Sugar Plum Ballerinas, Andrew Clement’s Lunch Money, and Joan Bauer’s Hope Was Here
A3 recommends Christopher Paolini’s Eragon series, Chris Rhylander’s The Fourth Stall, Cressida Cowell ‘s How to Train Your Dragon, and Kate O’Hearn’s Pegasus.
R2 recommends Wendy Mass’s A Mango-Shaped Space, Melissa J. Morgan’s Camp Confidential series, and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s Alice series.
