June
05
Poll: What Are You Reading This Summer? by Colby Sharp
Every since I read Donalyn Miller’s #BookADay post here on Nerdy Book Club, I can’t stop thinking about the books I will read this summer. In the video below, I share some of the books that I cannot wait to dive into. Before you check out the video, be sure to let us know in the comments below what books you plan on reading this summer?
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So many books…so little time! I’m looking forward to catching up on some titles I didn’t get to read yet, like Front Desk by Kelly Yang and New Kid by Jerry Kraft. I also like to spend a morning or two in the bookstore in the picture book section seeing what I may have missed. I also read loads of adult books in the summer – I’m a sucker for a good “beach book” and am really looking forward to reading The UNhoneymooners by Christina Lauren and I always read Elin Hilderbrand’s newest book every summer. Happy Reading!
Just finished Refugee
Front Desk was awesome!
Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas, On the Shoulders of Hobbits by Louis Markos, The Hobbit (re-read) by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace, Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed, and Captain America : White by Jeph Loeb.
Lots of reading plans this summer! All the Greys on Greene Street by Laura Tucker; Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga; The Clockwork Ghost by Laura Ruby; The First by Katherine Applegate; Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson and On the Come Up by Angie Thomas. Those ARCs look great! I’ve added several to my to-be-read list!
Just finished Forget Me Not (Ellie Terry) ❤️❤️❤️ Now on to Gracefully Grayson, a book about gender identity. So grateful to authors who tackle social issues for kids because we all know there are kids who need a safe connection in their lives.
I am an Elementary School Librarian,, so my list is wide ranged. I also read some just for me, just for fun. I am currently finishing a YA novel The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Makenzie Lee. I plan on reading Wishtree by Katherine Applegate, The Creature of the Pines by Adam Gidwitz, Two Dogs in a Trench Coat Go to School by Julie Falatko, The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris and Alec Azam, and Me Frida and the Secret of the Peacock Ring. That is my list so far. I know it will grow and change, but I only have about 81/2 weeks. That sounds like tons of time, but I have some professional development in there too. Happy Summer Reading!
I loved Wishtree. My class laughed out loud to Two Dogs in a Trench Coat go to School.
I will be reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley and We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
I love your stack! I can’t wait to read Allies and Jennifer Nielsen’s new book, too! I was also super excited to see Jake Burt’s new book. I added that to my list! I’m going to catch up on a few I missed this year: Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly and The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Malone….for starters! 😀 Happy Reading!
My goal is to read great middle grade books I haven’t gotten to yet with an immigration theme: Front Desk, Refugee, Wishtree, Home of the Brave, Lucky Broken Girl, Illegal, and A Long Walk to Water. I’m so excited! Currently reading The Sun Is Also a Star.
Professional books I want to read are: Building Bigger Ideas (Nichols), We Got This (Minor), Leading Well (Calkins), and The Megabook of Fluency (Rasinski).
For the month of June, I will focusing my reading time on MG/YA novels featuring LGBTQ+ main characters; also some picture books and non-fiction LGBTQ+.
July will be the Rebecca Caudill titles — IL young readers choice award.
Happy reading!
Jennifer
The Moon Within-Aida Salazar
George-Alex Gino
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise-Dan Gemeinhart
Forget Me Not-Ellie Terry
Shouting at the Rain-Lynda Mullaly Hunt
The Secret of Nightingale Wood- Lucy Strange
Caterpillar Summer-Gillian McDunn
17th is last day. Just Mercy finished. Now on Underground Railroad. Then Aminas Voice, wild Robot, Marrow Thieves. This is Junes list. I meet w students 5x in summer to talk books so i have those ready for July
Love hearing about your stack!! I loved give & take so much! I really want to read My Jasper June and Dear Sweet Pea! I recently finished A Light in the Lake by Sarah R. Baughman and loved it!! I have The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring and The Bone Garden (a debut) by Heather Kassner in my stack!
Happy end of the school year & happy Reading!!
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi, Educated by Tara Westover, Finale by Stephanie Garber, Orange for the Sunsets by Tina Athaide, Kings Queens and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju, and many many picture books.
Love your to-be-read stack! Mine includes the Septimus Heap series, The Promise of Change, The Season of Styx Malone, Eventown and The Missing Piece of Charlie O’Reilly.
I’m planning and looking forward to reading Songs for a Whale, Illegal, Elephant Secret and The Benefits of Being an Octopus this summer. 🙂
These are a few of the titles on my summer reading list:
Graphic novels: Amulet, Sheets, Brave, Click, All Summer Long and Ban this Book, the 15 titles on the Sunshine State Young Readers Award book list K-2 and 3-5.
I have added several to my TBR list from this video and the comments above! But I am going to read The One and Only Ivan, The Adventures of Tin Tin: A Novel, and the Red Pencil for starters. Oh and Refugee as well as the Genius Files #1.
My list includes Front Desk by Kelly yang, Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome, Lemons by Melissa Savage, Restart by Korman, New Kid by Jerry Kraft, The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman and Framed by James Ponti just to name a few! Oh, I almost forgot that two parents begged me to read I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka. They started reading and could not put it down. Now that is a recommendation!
Most of the Notebook of Doom and Bad Guys series (with my eight-year-old son) and struggling to graduate my six-year-old (who reads on a mid-3rd grade level) past Junie B Jones. KM Weiland’s Outlining Your Novel and Isabel Sterling’s These Witches Don’t Burn for me… plus everything from @KidlitExchange!
I am a middle school librarian. Some student titles I hope to read this summer: Wonder Woman, War Cross, The Ethan I Was Before, Hooper, Not if I Save You First, Thunderhead, Traitor’s Game, and books #2-#4 in Jason Reynold’s series: Patina, Sunny, and Lu.
Professional Books: Leading for School Librarians, The Indispensable Librarian, Blended, Creative Coding, The Book Whisperer, and Digital Citizenship in Action.
My favorite part of finishing up in my classroom at the end of each school year is packing up a couple boxes of books to take home and try to read over the summer. Thus, I have a lot of titles I’m excited about. This year, the ones I’m most looking forward to are the four titles students chose for our summer book groups: Skyward by Brandon Sanderson, which I’m reading now, What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper, The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden, and Small Spaces by Katherine Arden. In addition, I was excited to read Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai, which I just finished (it was awesome), and I’m also probably most excited about Ending the Last by Katherine Applegate, To Catch a Cheat by Varian Johnson, New Kid by Jerry Craft, and Undaunted by Kat Falls. Finally, I want to get Forward Me Back to You by Mitali Perkins and The Prophet Calls by Melanie Sumrow, and I know I’ll come home from NerdCamp with a bunch of new ones I can’t wait to read in July and August.
I have so many books on my summer reading list. I’ll list some of my YA and Middle Grade book choices. I am excited for These Witches Don’t Burn, Hot Dog Girl, Each Tiny Spark, How to Make Friends with the Dark, Shouting at the Rain, With the Fire on High, Romanov, Finale, Hurricane Season, and Just Under the Clouds.
I am reading spy school by Stuart Gibbs.