Summer Reading List 2015

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Picture Books
Sam & Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett; illus. by Jon Klassen (Candlewick)
My Bike by Byron Barton; illus. by the author (Greenwillow)
Flashlight by Lizi Boyd; illus. by the author (Chronicle)
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña; illus. by Christian Robinson (Putnam)
Wolfie the Bunny by Ame Dyckman; illus. by Zachariah OHora (Little, Brown)
The Farmer and the Clown by Marla Frazee; illus. by the author (Beach Lane/Simon)
The Hula-Hoopin' Queen by Thelma Lynne Godin; illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Lee & Low)
Water Rolls, Water Rises / El agua rueda, el agua sube by Pat Mora; illus. by Meilo So (Children's Book Press/Lee & Low)
The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach; illus. by the author (Knopf)
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Stephanie Roth Sisson; illus. by the author (Roaring Brook)

Early Readers and Primary
The Case of the Weird Blue Chicken: The Next Misadventure [Chicken Squad] by Doreen Cronin; illus. by Kevin Cornell (Atheneum)
Poem Depot: Aisles of Smiles by Douglas Florian; illus. by the author (Dial)
Tales of Bunjitsu Bunny by John Himmelman; illus. by the author (Holt)
My Heart Is Laughing by Rose Lagercrantz; illus. by Eva Eriksson; trans. from the Swedish by Julia Marshall (Gecko)
Ling & Ting: Twice as Silly by Grace Lin; illus. by the author (Little, Brown)
Murilla Gorilla and the Hammock Problem by Jennifer Lloyd; illus. by Jacqui Lee (Simply Read)
Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey by Alex Milway; illus. by the author (Candlewick)
Detective Gordon: The First Case by Ulf Nilsson; illus. by Gitte Spee; trans. from the Swedish by Julia Marshall (Gecko)
Completely Clementine by Sara Pennypacker; illus. by Marla Frazee (Disney-Hyperion)
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands by Katherine Roy; illus. by the author (Macaulay/Roaring Brook)

Intermediate
Hypnotize a Tiger: Poems About Just About Everything by Calef Brown; illus. by the author (Ottaviano/ Holt)
Park Scientists: Gila Monsters, Geysers, and Grizzly Bears in America's Own Backyard [Scientists in the Field] by Mary Kay Carson; photos by Tom Uhlman (Houghton)
The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic)
The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos (Farrar)
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin (Feiwel)
The Turtle of Oman
by Naomi Shihab Nye; illus. by Betsy Peterschmidt (Greenwillow)
Adventures with Waffles by Maria Parr; illus. by Kate Forrester; trans. from the Norwegian by Guy Puzey (Candlewick)
Nuts to You by Lynne Rae Perkins; illus. by the author (Greenwillow)
Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower by Greg Pizzoli; illus. by the author (Viking)
Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad/HarperCollins)

Middle School
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (Houghton)
The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister by Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire Legrand, and Emma Trevayne; illus. by Alexander Jansson (Greenwillow)
El Deafo by Cece Bell; illus. by the author (Amulet/Abrams)
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade/Random House)
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson; illus. by the author (Dial)
The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects selected by Paul B. Janeczko; illus. by Chris Raschka (Candlewick)
The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson (Levine/Scholastic)
Egg & Spoon by Gregory Maguire (Candlewick)
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki; illus. by Jillian Tamaki (First Second/Roaring Brook)
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Paulsen/Penguin)

High School
Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices ed. by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale (Annick)
The Truth Commission by Susan Juby (Viking)
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future by A.S. King (Little, Brown)
Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation ed. by Brett Fletcher Lauer and Lynn Melnick (Viking)
Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story by David Levithan (Dutton)
March: Book Two by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; illus. by Nate Powell (Top Shelf)
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum)
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon (Candlewick)
Just Call My Name by Holly Goldberg Sloan (Little, Brown)
The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma (Algonquin)

These titles were featured in the 2015 Summer Reading list.
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