Marlboro Summer Reading Suggestions 2009

Picture Books for Everyone!

The Red Clover Nominees:

• A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever Frazee, Marla
• Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale Hopkinson, Deborah
• Finding Home Markle, Sandra
• How to Heal a Broken Wing Graham, Bob
• Owney, the Mail Pouch Pooch Kerby, Mary
• Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City Schulman, Janet
• Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder Stone, Tanya Lee
• Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad Rumford, James
• The Chicken of the Family Amato, Mary
• Wangari's Trees of Peace Winter, Jeannette

Other Recommendations:

• The Princess Knight by Cornelia Funke
• The Pigeon books by Mo Willems
• 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
• Don't Let The Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems 

For 1st-3rd

• 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

• 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 

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

• The Black Stallion  by Walter Farley
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty Macdonald
• The Pippi Longstocking series by Inger Nilsson
• The Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
• The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• The Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo
• The Wind in the Willows  by Kenneth Grahame
• The Little House series

For 4th - 6th

from the DCF Nominees:

• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by George, Jessica Day
• The Other Side of the Island by Goodman, Allegra
• Savvy by Law, Ingrid
• Stolen by Vande Velde, Vivian
• Antsy Does Time by Shusterman, Neal

Other Recommendations

• Un Lun Dun by China Mieville

• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry

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

• 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 by Patricia C. Wrede
• Gaia Girls by Lee Welles

• The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• Mike Lupica books for sports fans
• The Septimus Heap series
• Schooled by Gordon Korman
• The Bartimaeus Triology by Jonathan Stroud
• The Lightening Thief & sequals by Rick Riordan
• Diary of a Whimpy Kid & its sequal
• The Gilda Joyce series
• The Warrior series
• Swindle by Gordon Korman
• The Inkheart Series by Cornelia Funke

For JH

from the DCF Nominees:

• The Hunger Games by Collins, Suzanne
• Emperors of the Ice by Farr, Richard
• Beneath My Mother’s Feet by Qamar, Amjed

Other Recommendations

• Nation by Terry Pratchett
• Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
• Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey
• The Trap  by John Smelcer

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