Duxbury Free Library’s 2007 Summer Reading Suggestions



Duxbury Free Library’s 2013 Summer Reading Suggestions for Alden School

Dear Students:

The following is a list of books that you might enjoy reading over the summer. Please keep in mind that these are only suggestions, and that there are many other excellent books that you and your family might like.

Mary McCauley – Alden Librarian Barbara Grenadir and Marie Piepiora – Alden Reading Specialists

Nancy Denman and Jessica Lamarre – Children’s Librarians, Duxbury Free Library

MYSTERIES

ADLER Cam Jansen and the Summer Camp Mysteries (series)

BALLIETT Chasing Vermeer (and others)

BARRETT The Case that Time Forgot (and others)

BERLIN The Puzzling World of Winston Breen

BEIL The Ring of Rocamadour (and others)

BROACH Masterpiece

DOWD The London Eye Mystery

GIBBS Belly Up

GRISHAM Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (series)

JONES The Night Flyers (American Girl Mystery Series)

KEHRET Stolen Children (and others)

KORMAN Framed (and others)

NEWSOME The Billionaire’s Curse

RIORDAN (and others) The Thirty-nine Clues (series)

SOBOL Encyclopedia Brown (series)

VAN DRAANEN Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy (series)

Other mystery authors to try: John Bellairs, Paul Fleischman, Bruce Hale, David Patneaude, Ron Roy,

Gloria Skurzynski, Brad Strickland, Betty Ren Wright

REALISTIC FICTION

AUCH One-Handed Catch

BIRDSALL Penderwicks (and others)

BUYEA Because of Mr. Terupt

CLEMENTS No Talking (and many others)

CREECH Love That Dog; Granny Torrelli Makes Soup (and others)

DOWELL Phineas L. MacGuire—blasts off (and others)

GANTOS Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (and others)

GIFFORD Moxie Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little (and others)

HIAASEN Scat (and others)

KELLEY Nature Girl

KIMMEL Lily B. on the Brink of Cool (and others)

LORD Rules

MCDONALD Judy Moody (series)

O’CONNOR The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester (and others)

SACHAR Holes; Wayside School is Falling Down (series)

SPINELLI Maniac Magee (and others)

VAN DRAANEN Shredderman: Secret Identity (series)

Other realistic fiction authors to try: Ellen Conford, Paula Danziger, Jean Craighead George, Lensey Namioka, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

ADVENTURE

ALLISON Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator

AVI Murder at Midnight

BELL Nick of Time

COLFER Half Moon Investigations

CRAIG Jimmy Coates, Assassin (series)

FLANAGAN The Ruins of Gorlan (series)

FLETCHER Stoneheart (and others)

GUTMAN Mission Unstoppable

HADDIX Missing (series)

HOROWITZ Alex Rider (series)

HUNTER Warrior (series)

KORMAN Island (series); On the Run (series)

NIX Mister Monday (series)

PEARSON Steel Trappe: The Challenge (and others)

RIORDAN The Red Pyramid

SMITH I.Q (Book one, Independence Hall)

WALDEN H.I.V.E. (series)

YOUNG Storm: The Infinity Code (and others)

HISTORICAL FICTION

AVI Seer of Shadows (and others)

CURTIS Bud, Not Buddy; Elijah Buxton (and others)

FORD The Fire of Ares

GRAHAM You Wouldn’t Want to Climb Mt. Everest (and others, various authors)

HEMPHILL Stonewall Hinkleman and the Battle of Bull Run

HESSE Out of the Dust (and others)

KADOHATA Weedflower

My name is America (series; different authors)

NIXON Maria’s Story: 1773 (and others)

PARK When My Name Was Keoko

PRYOR Luke on the High Seas (series)

Royal Diaries (series; different authors)

SALISBURY Under the Blood-Red Sun

SELZNICK The Invention of Hugo Cabret

HUMOR

BIRDSEYE Attack of the Mutant Underwear

COWLEY Chicken Feathers

GLEITZMAN Toad Rage

HALE Prince of Underwhere (and others)

KELLY Melonhead

KINNEY Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)

KORMAN Maxx Comedy

PALATINI Geek Chic: the Zoey Zone

PAULSEN Lawn Boy

PEIRCE Big Nate Strikes Again (series)

RUSSELL Dork Diaries (series)

SCIESZKA Time Warp Trio (series)

WINKLER The Zippity Zinger (series)

Other humor authors to try: Roald Dahl, Betsy Duffey, Johanna Hurwitz, Dav Pilkey

FANTASY

BARRY Peter and the Starcatchers (series)

BYNG Molly Moon (series)

COLFER Artemis Fowl (series)

DICAMILLO The Magician’s Elephant (and others)

DITERLIZZI The Search for WondLa

DOWNER Hatching Magic

FUNKE Dragon Rider; Inkspell (and others)

MOORE Door to Time (series)

NEFF The Hound of Rowan (and others)

NIMMO Midnight for Charlie Bone (series)

PAOLINI Eragon; Eldest

RIORDAN The Lightning Thief (series)

SAGE Magyk (series)

SPRINGER Rowan Hood (series)

STROUD Amulet of Samarkand (series)

YOLEN Wizard’s Hall; Tartan Magic

Other fantasy authors to try: Avi, Lynne Reid Banks, Bruce Coville, Roald Dahl, Eva Ibbotson, Brian Jacques, Gail Carson Levine, Carol Sonenklar, Elizabeth Winthrop, Patricia C. Wrede

INFORMATION

ARMSTRONG Spirit of Endurance: the true story of the Shackleton Expedition

BISHOP Lizards

BURNS The Hive Detectives

CANEY Steve Caney’s Ultimate Building Book

CARSON Emi and the Rhino Scientist

CERULLO Shipwrecks: exploring sunken cities beneath the sea

COOK Hey Batta, Batta Swing! The Wild Old Days of Baseball

HAKIM The Story of Science, Aristotle Leads the Way

HALLS Saving the Baghdad Zoo: a true story of hope and heroes

PRINGLE Strange Animals, New to Science

SPILSBURY Comics & Graphic Novels

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