Summer+Reading+Lists

Add your top 5 favorite new summer reading suggestions according to the table below. Do not duplicate titles. Add your initials to the title cell if your title is already in the table.
(SHS) || **When Gorilla Goes Walking** Nikki Grimes Diana Kimpton Mo Willems || **Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little** (& strong 2nd) Peggy Gifford Lisa Graff Jacqueline Davies Sherman Alexie (7/8 only) (LDG) (DB) || Christopher Paul Curtis (OK for 6 too)
 * **Name** || **K-2** || **3-5** || **6-8** ||
 * Jenny Polshek
 * Lamb-a-roo**
 * Elephant & Piggie** series (Easy Readers)
 * The Thing About Georgie**
 * The Lemonade War**
 * Drita, My Homegirl** Jenny Lombard || **Emma Jean Lazurus Fell Out of a Tree** Laura Tarshis (ok for 5 too) (DB)
 * Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian**
 * Sheila Geraty ||  || **Elijah of Buxton**
 * Jack Plank Tells Tales** Natalie Babbitt
 * Book of a Thousand Days** Shannon Hale
 * This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness** Joyce Sidman; illust. Pamela Zagarenski || **The New Policeman** Kate Thompson ||
 * Linda Griset || //**Stick**// by Steve Breen || **//Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos//** by R.L. LaFevers (LBD--loved it!!!) || **//Revolution is Not a Dinner Party//** by Ying Chang Compestine


 * //First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover//** by Mitali Perkins ||
 * Jody Kopple ||  || **The House of a Million Pets** by Ann Hodgman || **If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period** by Gennifer Choldenko


 * Freak** by Marcella Pixley (7/8 only), (LC) (DB)


 * Games** by Carol Gorman ||
 * Lucia Corwin ||  ||   || **The Wednesday Wars** by Gary D. Schmidt (good for 5th too)

Mary**Mary & the Mouse, the Mouse &** **Mary,** by Beverly Donofrio & Barbara McClintock || **Clementine** by Sara Pennypacker (DB) || **Black Book of Secrets**, by F.E. Higgins || Lane (Atrium) || **Cowboy & Octopus**, by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith (Park) ||  || **A Crooked Kind of Perfect,** Linda Urban || **Un Lun Dun** by China Mieville
 * Tamar** by Mal Peet (8 only) ||
 * Laura Beals D'Elia ||  || **The Mysterious Benedict Society** by Trenton Lee Stewart (more 4-6) (DB) || **Keturah and Lord Death** by Martine Leavitt (7-9) ||
 * Suzanne Terry || **Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog** //by// //Margaret Read// //MacDonald
 * My Travels with Clara**//, by //Mary Taverner Holmes//
 * Tory
 * Circle of Hope** by Karen Lynn Williams and Linda Saport || **True Meaning of Smekday** by Adam Rex (5-8)
 * What-the-Dickens: The story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy** by Gregory Maguire (5-8)
 * How to Train Your Dragon (Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous III)** by Cressida Cowell - not recent but new to me! ||  ||
 * Dorothea Black
 * The White Darkness** by Geraldine Mccaughrean
 * A Darkling Plain** by Philip Reeve
 * How It Happened at Peach Hill** by Marthe Jocelyn ||