Summer Time! The perfect time for some lemonade, and Summer Reading!
Here are a bunch of book picks that I enjoyed and would recommend you add to your summertime reading list.
I’ve tried to group these book into their “proper” categories since some topics may require a more mature audience.
As always, there is no age limit on these books – adults may even enjoy some of the middle school books as well.
I’ll update & add to this list as I find more books. So Many Books & So Little Time!
Jump to your favorite Category:
Chapter Books
Mercy Watson Series by Kate DiCamillo & illustrator Chris Van Dusen
My first chapter books! I enjoyed them and my mom did too – especially the pictures! I believe you can read these in any order, along with some buttered toast. Books in this series:
Mercy Watson to the Rescue / Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride / Mercy Watson Fights Crime / Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise / Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig / Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes
Elementary Books
by Jody Feldman
Hard to explain if you haven’t read it.
3.9 / U / 590 / ?
by Steven K. Smith
The Virginia Mysteries Series
4.9 / ? / 790 / ?
Upper Elementary / Middle School Books
by Wendy Mass
A fun read, but you’ll want chocolate!
5.0 / U / 740 / ?
by Chris Colfer
The Land of Stories series. A neat storybook world where fairy tales come to life.
5.0 / ? / 720 / ?
by Sara Pennypacker
A boy searching for the true meaning of life while looking for his missing pet fox.
5.3 / T / 760 / 50
by Madeleine L’Engle
Meg, her little brother Charles, and potential love interest Calvin, cross space and time to save Meg’s father.
4.7 / W / 740 / 60
by Lois Lowry
Silly, Crazy, and just plain fun.
5.2 / U / 790 / ?
by Jean Merrill
Want a summer job? What would you do? How about toothpaste?
6.1 / ? / 820 / ?
by Sara Lewis Holmes
Written in letter form, a middle schooler copes with the absence of her father as she struggles with social life and school troubles.
5.3 / ? / 820 / ?
High School Books
by Abbie Emmons
A fun, sweet teenage romance. Perfect for Summer Reading.
Contains cussing.
by Krista Noorman
Romance buds between 2 teenagers on a road-trip.
Contains cussing, people drinking, & inferences to others having sex.
by Ray Bradbury
See my Review here.
by Chuck Black
A thrilling action-packed dystopian mystery.
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
A thrilling page-turner mystery with tons of twists.
Contains cussing, people drinking, & inferences to others having sex.
by Julianne Donaldson
A fun, clean romance. On it’s way to becoming a classic.
Young Adult & Older Books
by Denise Hunter
A romance is rekindled years later after being stuck during a hurricane.
by Carina Taylor
A fun prank-filled war & romance between new neighbors.
