I’ve been asking my students which books are “must reads” for my summer reading list this year.  This is what my 3rd-7th grade students have been saying, plus some books I added to my list myself:

Middle School students have recommended:

• Cherub, by Robert Muchamore (series)
• Timeless, by Alexandra Monir
• If I Stay, by Gayle Forman (series)
• Anything!! by Sonya Sones (they added the !!)
• The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green

My 3-5th grade students recommended:

• A Nest for Celeste, by Henry Cole
• The Unwanteds, by Lisa McCann (series)
• Peter and the Star Catchers, by Dave Barry (series)
• Lauren Myracle’s Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Thirteen+One (series)

Here are some books I hope to be able to recommend to students next school year:

• Caminar, by Skila Brown (middle school)
• Same Sun Here, by Silas House and Neela Vaswani (5th-7th grade)
• The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel (3rd-5th grade)
• Dark Lord, by Jamie Lawrence (5th-8th grade) (series)