I've been going crazy putting together laminated summer reading lists and schedules for everybody, and since two of my sisters have recently asked me about book recommendations, I thought I'd share. I expect my kids to read more than this list during the summer, but wanted to leave room for them to choose some books. I'm pretty proud of myself for blogging at all, so I am not linking them all to amazon. You can go there and type the titles in yourself if you want. I was going to add some pictures, but them I remembered I had to delete Google photos from my phone to free up space, so you get a boring text only post.
Lauren
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Invisible Emmie
The Lemonade War
Tuesdays at the Castle
Matilda
I'm also making Lauren write four book reports this summer.
Andrew
Ballpark Mysteries (his contribution and he mostly still needs them read aloud to him)
Frog and Toad are Friends and other books in the series
Nate the Great
Tales from Deckawoo Drive (companion to the Mercy Watson books)
Grace - trying to get her to move on from Llama Llama and forget that our library has Peppa Pig books
Bear Snores On series
The Rainbow Fish series
Ladybug Girl series
Read Alouds
Jumanji
Zathura
The Trumpet of the Swan
Begin
Farmer Boy
Me - I am trying to improve my score on the Great American Read, but so far, I'm not very impressed
Looking for Alaska (don't read and definitely don't let your teenagers read)
Memoirs of a Geisha (I feel like this one broadened my horizons, but I still don't know if I'd recommend it)
currently reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Gilead
what else should I add?
Now, where to find book recommendations. There are tons of book lists and sites out there, but a few that I find most helpful.
Brightly - follow on Pinterest or Facebook and they will give you age or themed book lists
Read Aloud Revival - thank you to Janet for this one
Amazon - I've found a lot of favorite books just by searching "books for six year old boys" or something similar and browsing
homeschool blogs - I don't have any specific ones, but if you search for book lists on Pinterest, they will continually give you more ideas than you will ever want
What summer reading programs have you participated in? Our public library has a good one, so besides that, we usually only do the Barnes and Noble one. It's pretty easy and they get a free book at the end.
This is Emily, by the way, since I just saw that I'm posting as Preston.
