Marlboro Summer Reading Suggestions

 

Picture Books for Everyone!

The Red Clover Nominees:

• Dadblamed Union Army Cow by Susan Fletcher
• Fred Stays with Me! by Nancy Coffelt
• Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella by Paul Fleischman
• Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
• Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend by Melanie Watt
• Sky Sweeper by Phillis Gershator
• The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County by Janice N. Harrington
• When Dinosaurs Came With Everything by Elise Broach
• White Owl, Barn Owl by Nicola Davies
• Wind Flyers by Angela Johnson 

Pam recommends:

• The Princess Knight by Cornelia Funke
• Flotsam by David Wiesner
• Henry the Dog with No Tail by Kate Feiffer
• Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie by Gloria Whelan
• Sally Jean the Bicycle Queen by by Cari Best and Christine Davenier
• The Pigeon Wants a Puppy by Mo Willems 

Aleah recommends:  The Little Polar Bear books

Alice recommends: The Pigeon books by Mo Willems

Eliza recommends: Peter and Lotta's Adventure  by Elsa Maartman Beskow

Mercer recommends: Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems

 

 

For 1st-3rd

 

Judy recommends:

• The Little Bear series
• The Frog & Toad series
• The Annie & Snowball / Henry & Mudge series
• The Poppleton series
• The Kids Can Read! series
• The I Can Read! series
• The Mr. Putter & Tabby series

Pam recommends:

• Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic by Emily Jenkins
• The Courageous Princess by Rod Espinosa 

Tim recommends:

• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
• The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

Francie recommends:

• The Black Stallion  by Walter Farley
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty Macdonald

Izzy recommends:  The Pippi Longstocking series by Inger Nilsson

Alice recommends: The Narnia series by C.S. Lewis

Isobel, Liam, Alice (& probably most everyone else) recommend: The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

Paige recommends: The Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo

Celena recommends: The Wind in the Willows  by Kenneth Grahame

Sequoia recommends: The Little House series

 

For 4th - 6th

from the DCF Nominees:

• Chase by Jessie Haas
• Diary of a Whimpy Kid Kid Jeff Kinney
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf  by Jennifer Holm
• Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
• Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow by James Sturm and Rich Tommaso
• Dragon’s Egg by Sarah L. Thomson
• A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
• Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
• Dragon’s Egg by Thomson, Sarah L.
• No Talking by Andres Clements
• The Seems: the Glitch in Sleep by John Hulme and Michael Wexler
• Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne  Jonell
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt 

Pam recommends:

• Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
• Elvis & Olive by Stephanie Watson

 David recommends:

• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Danny, Champion of the World by Roald Dahl  

Brenda recommends:

• All the Kings Horses by Laura Stevenson
• Ever by Gail Carson Levine
• The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Magyk (Septimus Heap book 1) by Angie Sage
• Barnstormers Game 1-3 by Loren Long and Phil Bildner
• Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
• The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Dealing with Dragons / Searching for Dragons / Calling on Dragons / Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
• Gaia Girls by Lee Welles

Rose recommends:

• The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• Gold Dust

Mesa recommends: The Septimus Heap series

Francie recommends: Escape from Warsaw (Original title: The Silver Sword) by Ian Serraillier

Ethan recommends: The Bartimaeus Triology by Jonathan Stroud

Marcus recommends: The Lightening Thief & sequals by Rick Riordan

Sheldon recommends: Diary of a Whimpy Kid & its sequal

Grace recommends: The Gilda Joyce series

Max C recommends: The Artemis Fowl series

Yarrow recommends: The Warrior series

Wes recommends: Swindle by Gordon Korman

Sequoia & Brenda recommend: Inkheart & Inkspell by Cornelia Funke

 

 

For JH

from the DCF Nominees:

• Schooled by Gordon Korman
• Tasting the Sky by Ibtisam Barakat
• Elephant Run  by Roland Smith
• Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate 

Pam recommends:

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
• Clay by David Almond
• Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey
• The Trap  by John Smelcer

Brenda recommends:

• Leap Day by Wendy Mass
• Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
• Bird Wing by Rafe Martin

 

For Graduates & Adults

The Green Mountain Nominees (link to .pdf file with book descriptions)

(This is similar to the DCF program, but for High School students. They choose young adult novels as well as novels for adults to be on the list. High school students will be asked to vote on their favorite from this list next year. I've read some of these books and they are super - Pam)

• Anderson, M.T.  The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party
• Bechdel, Alison.  Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
• Castellucci, Cecil.  The Plain Janes
• Curtis, Christopher Paul.  Bucking the Sarge
• Hopkins, Ellen.  Crank
• Johnson, Maureen.  13 Little Blue Envelopes
• Lyga, Barry.  The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
• Lynch, Chris.  Inexcusable
• Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Dairy Queen
• Novik, Naomi.  His Majesty’s Dragon
• Parrado, Nando & Vince Rause.  Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the
• Mountain and My Long Trek Home
• Vizzini, Ned.  It’s Kind of a Funny Story
• Volponi, Paul.  Black and White
• Vowell, Sarah.  Assassination Vacation
• Zusak, Marcus.  The Book Thief 

Pam recommends: What is the What by Dave Eggers

Ellen recommends:

• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
• The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Udall
• The Miracles of Santa Fico by D.L. Smith
• Saving the World by Julia Alvarez
• Jodi Picoult's novels for beach reading

Gail recommends: The World Without Us  by Alan Weisman

Francie recommends: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson