Super Summer Fun Book List
As a children's book author
and illustrator, I have visited many schools to teach creative writing and share my
work with the students. I often eat lunch with the kids and, inevitably we talk
about our favorite books. They usually want to know what books I read when I was their
ages. I am eager to hear about the books they have discovered on their own or
read because of a friend's recommendation. A question I often hear is, "Do you
know a book that is fun to read?"
There are multitudes of reading lists available which have been put together by
librarians, teachers, reading specialists, and children's literature academics.
This year, when I visited schools, I asked the kids to name the books they found
so interesting and entertaining that they couldn't stop reading. I have compiled
their recommendations for a special SuperPages Super Summer Fun Book List. Some
of the books are humorous, some are great adventure stories. None of them are
the "B" word: boring.
Books that are Funny or Amusing
Anything by Polly Horvath, especially:
No More Cornflakes
When the Circus Came to Town
Trolls
Everything on a Waffle
Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis
Centerburg Tales, by Robert McKlosky
Homer Price, by Robert McKlosky
Henry Reed Inc., by Keith Roberston
Island of the Aunts, by Eva Ibbotson
My Guy, by Sarah Weeks
Preacher's Boy, by Katherine Paterson
The Twits, by Roahl Dal
Great Adventure Books
Anything by Mildred Taylor, especially:
Hear My Cry
The Land
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Roll of Thunder
The Road to Memphis
Bandit's Moon, by Sid Fleischman
Dave at Night, by Gail Carson Levine
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Konigsburg
Gone-Away Lake, by Elizabeth Enright
The Iron Ring, by Lloyd Alexander
The House of Dies Drear, by Virginia Hamilton
The Million Dollar Shot, by Dan Gutman
Mrs. Mike, by Benedict and Nancy Freedman
Regarding the Fountain, by Kate Klise
Seaward, by Susan Cooper
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance, by Jennifer Armstrong
Tangerine, by Edward Bloor
Walking Up a Rainbow, by Theodore Taylor
You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman, by Claudia Mills
Recommended Series: The Sammy Keyes Mysteries, by Wendelin Van Draanen
Books That Make You Feel Good
Because of Win-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
Cassie Bineger, by Patrica McLachlan
It's Like This Cat, by Emily Cheney Neville
Jo's Boys, by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Long Way From Chicago, by Richard Peck
Mary Poppins, by P.L.Travers
Mary Poppins Comes Back, by P.L.Treavers
The Moffats, by Eleanor Estes
Rascal, by Sterling North
The Saturdays, by Elizabeth Enright
The Secret Garden, by Francis Hodgson Burnett
Then There Were Five, by Elizabeth Enright
A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck
© 2003 Mary Brigid Barrett
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